The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said it has discovered that the newly confirmed Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr Abdulraheed Bawa, is the first trained investigator to have chaired the Commission. The party stated this in a statement issued on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan. PDP, while urging Bawa to avoid the pitfalls of his immediate predecessor, also advised the new Chairman to re-engineer and restore professionalism in the anti-graft agency. Ologbondiyan urged Bawa not to succumb to pressures that may arise from politicians while he discharges his duty. According to him,…
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The Caretaker Committee Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Enugu State, Dr. Ben Nwoye, has expressed optimism that the party would take over the Enugu State Government House by 2023. The Chairman said the APC would take over Enugu Government by popular votes going by the number of people defecting en-mass on a daily basis to the party. Nwoye spoke at Obeagu, in Enugu South-Local Government Area of Enugu State, where a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Monday Ogbonna, defected to the APC. He declared that, “We are serious not just about the presidency of…
The Director-General of Voice of Nigeria, Mr. Osita Okechukwu has blamed the current security challenges facing Nigeria on the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP), an IMF policy under the military leadership of then Head of State, Ibrahim Babandiga. TheInfoStride reports that Nigeria has lately been hit with insecurity of a high magnitude, a situation that has now worsened with the endless abduction of school children in the Northern part of the country. He also did not spare power distribution companies, lamenting that rather than improve on electricity, they were busy siphoning billions of funds. While absolving his party, the All Progressives…
Following what it described as “unguarded utterances” about Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, the National Democratic Front, NDF, on Monday called on the lawmaker representing Kogi West, Smart Adeyemi, to quit from the National Assembly. Condemning Adeyemi’s outburst, NDF said the Senate is a hallowed place of lawmaking and must be protected from misfits such as Adeyemi. Recall that Adeyemi, in a scathing attack during plenary last week, described Ikpeazu and other leaders from Abia as drunkards. However, in a statement by its Secretary-General, Dr Bolaji Abdulkadir, the NDF described Adeyemi’s statements as a reprehensive and gross abuse of…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State has slammed Governor Dapo Abiodun for distributing noodles, rice and other food items to those affected by the recent herdsmen attacks in Yewa axis of the State. TheInfoStride reports that many were said to have been killed and others injured, with houses destroyed during the attacks on communities in Yewa axis of Ogun. A committee set up by Governor Abiodun had visited the troubled areas to distribute palliatives to residents affected by the incident. But, the PDP in a statement made available to the media in Abeokuta on Monday, described the gesture…
Fani-Kayode, former Aviation Minister, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to order the shooting on sight of killer herdsmen from the Fulani tribe. Fani-Kayode said Buhari should emulate ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo who ordered the shot at sight of Southwest mitia, Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC. In a series of tweets, the former minister said Buhari should give the order for the sake of Nigerians. He recounted how Obasanjo while in power gave such an order on OPC members despite wild condemnation. According to Fani-Kayode: “Can President Buhari not learn from this? If OBJ can order that OPC members from his own…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday postponed the sale of forms for Anambra governorship primary election. The opening date of Monday, March 1, was postponed to Wednesday, March 10. National Organising Secretary, Retired Col. Austin Akobundu, made the announcement on Sunday. The PDP also extended the tenure of three zonal caretaker committees by 30 days. The directive affects the South-West, North-Central and North-West committees. “The fresh extension takes effect from March 10, being the date of the expiration of the current tenure”, Akobondu noted. The screening of aspirants for North-East, South-East and South-South Zonal congresses is scheduled for March…
Former Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, may be planning a fresh move as he has visited Rivers State two times in one month. In the first visit, the former governor who is now a Senator was in Rivers State to commission a project. But this time, his visit to the South-South State is to commiserate with Governor Wike over the demise of his uncle. Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, was joined by several political leaders over the weekend for the funeral of his late uncle, Chief Charles Aleruchi Ihunwo Wike. The late Chief Ihunwo Wike who passed on at the…
Bauchi State governor, Senator Bala Mohammed, on Sunday declared that both President Muhammadu Buhari and himself are working for the people of his state despite their political differences. The governor stated this while inspecting the ongoing construction at a housing project jointly being built by the Federal Government and Bauchi State government located at Dunga at the outskirt of Bauchi metropolis. According to Mohammed, despite the fact that they did not belong to the same party, President Buhari was his father. Hr expressed gratitude to the President for directing the Federal Ministry of Finance to give the state the sum…
As preparations for the conduct of local government election gather momentum in Oyo State, the Peoples Democratic Party screening committee has disqualified 41 chairmanship aspirants for the election. The 41 chairmanship aspirants, according to the committee, failed to fulfill some of the screening guidelines for the election. The disqualified aspirants spread across the five geopolitical zones of the state. From Ibadan Zone, 22 did not make it, while nine aspirants were not cleared from Oyo Zone. Only one aspirant from Ibarapa Zone was not cleared, while six and three aspirants were disqualified in Oke Ogun and Ogbomoso Zones respectively. The…
A chieftain of Alliance for Democracy (AD) in Oyo State, Oyedeke Hakeem Alao has raised an alarm that Oyo State is about to lose a world bank project worth N76bn. Alao, who contested the gubernatorial election in 2019claimed that contractors who are supposed to handle the project which is centred on environmental flood control have been selected by the World Bank. He, however, alleged that Governor, Seyi Makinde has insisted that the project must be handled by his preferred candidate or the state loses the USD200m project. Alao who claimed the Oyo State could lose the project due to Makinde’s…
President Muhammadu Buhari has endorsed the peace efforts of Governor Bello Matawalle and has promised a better approach to security operations in the country. The President spoke through a special delegation of four Ministers under the leadership of the Minister of Aviation Hadi Sirika who were in Gusau, Zamfara state capital to commiserate with the Government and people of Zamfara State over the abduction of Jangebe school girls. Senator Sirika said the President is happy with Governor Matawalle over his genuine efforts at finding peace and tranquillity in the state. President Muhammadu Buhari, however, noted that the Military leadership is…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has charged the new Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulraheed Bawa, to re-engineer and restore professionalism in the anti-graft agency. This was contained in a statement on Sunday by Kola Ologbondiyan, the National Publicity Secretary of the party. Ologbondiyan asked Bawa to avoid the pitfalls of his immediate predecessor in office, by resisting all-partisan pressures, to use the agency as a tool for political persecution. The PDP asked Bawa not to be a party to harassment of dissenting voices, settling of personal scores as well as for personal enrichment. “The party…
The governor of Ebonyi State David Umahi has threatened to clampdown on stakeholders of Onitsha LGA, the hometown of the acting national vice chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ali Odefa and other communities for their inability to resolve all communal clashes in their areas. Recall that there have been increased hostilities, killings and destruction of valuable properties by warlords in some communities of the state especially in Isinkwo and Abaomege, Ezza/ Effium communities. It was gathered that political leaders/ stakeholders of Isinkwo and Abaomege, Ezza/ Effium and other communities in Ikwo, Izzi and Abakaliki local government areas allowed…
Special Adviser on Youths to Delta State Governor, Chief Emuoboh Gbagi, has called on Deltans, especially youths, to vote for Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidates in the March 6 local government elections in the state. Emuoboh told journalists at Asaba: “PDP is performing well and never in our history as a state that we have a governor been so youth-friendly and distinguishable from his body language, warm disposition and support to the youths of Delta state.” “This is why the state is filled with so many youths in leadership positions, all fostered by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa. He grew from the…
The All Progressive Congress (APC) party in Yobe state has swept all the 17 Local Government Chairmen elections in the state. The 178 candidates for the councillorships elections, also won each of the wards in three of the senatorial districts. Announcing the council elections result at the weekend in Damaturu, the state capital, the Executive Secretary of Yobe State Independent Electoral Commission (YBSIEC), Dr. Mamman Mohammed disclosed that; “Out of the six political parties that contested for the elections, only the APC fielded its candidates; while five other parties fielded for only the councillorships.” He noted that in the chairmanship…
Olusegun Bamgbose, Esq, National Coordinator, Concerned Advocates for Good Governance, CAGG, has told South East politicians aspiring to take over from President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023 to stop wasting their time. He advised them to start defecting to other political parties before it is too late, insisting that there is no hope for people of Igbo extraction aspiring to become President on the All Progressives Congress, APC, platform. He said that with the recent arrest and detention of former Governor of Imo State, it is becoming very clear that any aspirant of Igbo extraction in APC, hoping to take…
Former Central Bank Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo has said that his quest to become governor of Anambra State is not a quest to enrich himself or better his life, as God has blessed him with everything he needs. Soludo is an aspirant in the Anambra governorship election, and is hoping to fly the flag of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the November 6th election. The professor of Econometrics who spoke to some journalists in Awka yesterday said he is in the race because he believes that God did not make a mistake by making him an Anambra indigene.…
The Zamfara State government has declared that the state APC caretaker committee chairman, Hon. Lawal Liman Kaura should be mindful of his utterances, saying that merciless killings in the state started during the unfortunate tenure of the All progressives Congress (APC) under Alhaji Abdul Aziz Yari. Governor Bello Mohammed Matawalle who spoke through his Director-General, Media and Public Enlightenment, Comrade Yusuf Idris Gusau, said he never wanted to join issues with the APC leaders in the state, but that they were forcing him to break his silence. “It is worthy of note that the governor had passionately said that this…
Soludo says his larger goal is to make Nigeria a prosperous nation by creating prosperous and happy states. Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, says he is in the governorship race of Anambra to make the South-East geopolitical zone an island of prosperity. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Soludo will run for the November 6 poll on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). In an interaction with newsmen on Saturday in Awka, he said the South-East had become largely unliveable despite the solid foundation and infrastructure laid down by…