The Abia State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has chided the member representing the Ikwuano/Umuahia Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon Sam Onuigbo. InfoStride News recalls that Onuigbo currently serving two terms in office had dumped the PDP for the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the state. The federal lawmaker cited alleged denial of the opportunity to produce PDP ward executive members in the 2020 congress of the party in Ikwuano Local Government of the state by the National Organizing Secretary of the PDP-Col. Austin Akobundu (Rtd). But refuting the alleged claim by Onuigbo as made…
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The Senator representing Southern Kaduna Senatorial District, Danjuma Tella Laah, has called on the electorates to use their Permanent Voter Cards to oust their elective leaders that have failed to give quality representations at all levels. Recall that, the Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission (KAD-SIEC) has scheduled Local Government elections for September 4, 2019 across 23 local government areas of the state. The senator, who was represented by his senior aide, Mr. Kajang Joseph, in a town hall meeting on ‘Deepening Citizens’ Interest in Government Spending and Addressing the Accompanying Corruption Practices’ organized by the Connected Development (Code), through ‘…
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday spoke to his German counterpart Heiko Maas on the latest developments in Afghanistan and challenges relating to emergency evacuation from Kabul. “Appreciate the call from Foreign Minister @HeikoMaas of Germany. Discussed the evacuation challenges in Afghanistan and the policy implications of the changes there,” Jaishankar tweeted. India has been in touch with the US, the UK and a number of other leading powers on the fast-evolving situation in Afghanistan after Kabul fell to the Taliban on Sunday evening. Several countries including India have been facing difficulties in evacuating people from Kabul in view…
The Zamfara State Government has reacted swiftly to claims by some residents of a lapse in governance since Governor Bello Mohammed Matawalle defected to the All Progressive Congress (APC). Many of them have lamented that Matawalle has been busy focusing on the reconciliation with former Governor, Abdulaziz Yari, and Senator Kabiru Marafa’s faction of the APC in the state. But the state Commissioner of Information, Hon. Ibrahim Dosara, said that security challenges in the state was a household discussion before Governor Matawalle assumed office as the state governor and initiated a peace accord and reconciliation process to end banditry in…
The All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) has inaugurated a 2021 Campaign Committee for Professor Charles Soludo. Soludo is the flagbearer of APGA for the forthcoming November 6 governorship election in Anambra State. The former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria will slug it out at the polls with Valentine Ozigbo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Accord Party’s Dr. Godwin Maduka and the All Progressive Congress flagbearer, Senator Ifeanyi Ubah. However, speaking while inaugurating the campaign committee at an event attended by thousands of APGA supporters held at Alex Ekwueme Square in Awka, Governor Willie Obiano, who doubles as…
As the appeal panel set up by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to entertain petitions in respect of the ward congress in Ekiti State concluded its sitting, members of the Southwest Agenda for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu 2023 presidential race, SWAGA, has exuded confidence that the outcome of the congress will be annulled. The group, which consolidated its petitions and presented the same by its counsel , Barr. Tunji Oso, appeared before the panel and tendered evidence to substantiate the claims that the ward congresses in Ekiti were allegedly vitiated by all manners of anti-democratic practices. The panel, headed by…
The Osun Progressives (TOP), a group within the Osun All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as a ruse, the purported report of the Ward Congress Appeal Committee that entertained petitions filed by members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) against the Ward Congress held on July 31, 2021 in the State of Osun. In a press release signed by its Chairman, Adelowo Adebiyi and made available to the media in Osogbo, the group stated that it had noted with dismay the absence of logic in the report which has been circulating on social media. Adelowo stated that the group will…
Former Deputy Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob was appointed as the new Prime Minister of Malaysia on Friday. Malaysia’s King Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah appointed Ismail Sabri as the new Prime Minister of the country, the national palace said, reported Xinhua. He will succeed Muhyiddin Yassin, who resigned on Monday after losing majority support in the lower house of parliament. Ismail Sabri, 61, is a veteran politician of the United Malays National Organization (UMNO) and has served in Muhyiddin’s cabinet as defense minister before being appointed as deputy prime minister in July, reported Xinhua.
The Zenith Labour Party (ZLP), has said Governor Willie Obiano plans to rig the Anambra State governorship election in favour of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). The party said it has uncovered plans where Obiano plans to spend Anambra’s money to achieve the aim, saying that a recent supplementary budget by the governor to lawmakers was for that purpose. A press release by the publicity secretary of ZLP, Mr Afam Ofomata, which was made available to newsmen in Awka made the claim. The release said, “ZLP has already been made aware of how the Obiano camp, having realized that there…
Youths of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Friday revealed moves of the All Progressives Congress, APC, governors, ahead of the 2023 presidential election. The National Youth Coordinator of PDP youths, Usman Okai Austin, alleged that APC governors are “lobbying, romancing, and begging” former President Goodluck Jonathan to join the ruling party. Speaking exclusively with newsmen, Okai alleged that APC governors including its Caretaker National Chairman, Mai Mala Buni plans to give Jonathan an automatic presidential ticket in 2023, if he defects to the ruling party. Okai made the remark while rubbishing claims by the Minister of Information and Culture,…
The candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Prof Chukwuma Soludo has chided his fellow governorship candidates for declaring only WAEC Certificate as their highest educational attainments. Soludo who spoke at Dr Alex Ekwueme Square in Awka during the inauguration of the APGA National Campaign Council said Anambra had outgrown being governed with such lowly educational qualification. INEC had on Thursday released a list of candidates for the Anambra Governorship election, with most candidates who claim strings of degrees submitting only WAEC certificates. The candidate who was on Thursday enlisted as the standard-bearer of APGA by the Independent National…
A chieftain of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, and National Coordinator, Concerned Advocates for Good Governance, CAGG, Barrister Olusegun Bamgbose, Esq., on Friday claimed that the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has concluded plans to extend the tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari come 2023. He said the party wants to achieve this through the cabals, which according to him, has zeroed down on Osinbajo/Malami ticket tentatively. The senior lawyer further claimed that the National leader of the party, Bola Asiwaju Tinubu has been rejected on two grounds. He warned that Nigerians must beware of this dastardly plan and stand…
President Biden has held fast on his commitment to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan, he has thrown a few bones to advocates of U.S. power projection. One, in particular, stands out, and that is Biden’s promise to use our “counterterrorism over-the-horizon capability” in Afghanistan and the wider region if necessary. What does this mean? On one level, it sounds like we’ll keep killing people with drones. That, after all, seems to be the real-life application of “over-the-horizon capability” in the other places that Biden mentioned — Somalia, Syria, Iraq, the Arabian Peninsula. More broadly, however, Biden is assuring us that…
Scores of members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have dragged the Yobe Governor, Mai Buni and the Caretaker Committee to court. They are demanding the sack of Buni, the 13-member national committee, as well as the nullification of all their actions. Joined in suit are the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Attorney General and Justice Minister, Abubakar Malami. The originating summons registered as suit no: FHC/ABJ/CS/938/2021 and a motion for interlocutory injunction were filed by their lawyer, Samuel Irabor at the Federal High Court. Buni charges APC stakeholders to prioritize party above personal interests The plaintiffs presented…
The Ogun State chapter of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) has boycotted the 7th triennial delegate conference of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, Ogun State, over disagreement in the zoning of key elective positions. InfoStride News reports that members of the ASCSN walked out of the congress to protest the development. The State Chairman of ASCSN, Isa Olude told newsmen on Thursday that members of the association boycotted the TUC congress because they felt cheated in the zoning arrangement. Our correspondent reports that ASCSN, which has the largest membership strength, is one of the eight…
Some members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area of Bauchi State on Thursday accused the immediate past Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, of hijacking nomination forms for the party’s forthcoming congresses in the area. Addressing journalists at the end of his group’s meeting held at the Vanilla Garden in Bauchi on Thursday, the leader of the group, Alhaji Bala Burga, alleged that the former speaker has perfected plans to deny political actors who do not belong to his camp in the Bogoro/Dass/Tafawa Balewa Federal Constituency the opportunity of seeking elective offices in the…
Dr. Nyerere Anyim, former governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the 2015 election in Abia State and current representative of the Southeast zone in the National Pensions Commission, has insisted that there is no power tussle in the party as insinuated in some quarters. Anyim spoke in a telephone interview with the media on Thursday over rumours of a power tussle among political leaders in the state following the controversies that trailed the outcome of the just concluded APC ward congress. InfoStride News recalls that the Hon Donatus Nwankpa-led Caretaker Executive Committee of the APC in the…
The Independent National Electoral Commision (INEC) on Thursday published the list of candidates for the Anambra State governorship poll. The election will be conducted in November. INEC replaced Michael Umeoji with Chukwuma Soludo as the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APC). The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) was excluded from the list of cleared candidates. INEC National Commissioner, Information and Voter Education Committee Festus Okoye, issued a statement on the update. He said the timetable approved by the commission on January 18 2021 provides for the withdrawal/substitution of candidates in line with Sec. 35 of the Electoral Act 2010…
Many among the at least 30,000 Afghan refugees headed to the US to escape the Taliban in Afghanistan are expected to be resettled in different cities in Texas state, the agency for refugee services has said. An anticipated at least 30,000 Afghans could be resettled in the US in the coming weeks as they desperately flee Taliban control. Many Afghan refugees will be placed in Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston and Austin cities of Texas. Afghan nationals and their families, who aided the US military, are in grave danger and are seeking refuge in the US, Russell Smith, CEO of Refugee…
National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus has said he visited former President Olusegun in Abeokuta to discuss the situation of the country. InfoStride News reported that Secondus was at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital for a closed-door meeting with the former President. While addressing newsmen after the meeting that lasted more than an hour, the PDP Chairman said he came to Obasanjo as an elder statesman to advise the present government. “I am here with the members of my team and as well as the PDP executives in Ogun State…