There was jubilation in Anambra State, especially among government officials, over the enlisting of former Central Bank Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, as candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) for the forthcoming governorship election. InfoStride News learnt that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), after a meeting in Abuja on Thursday, while citing the judgement of the Court of Appeals in Kano, included Soludo’s name on the list. At Aroma Junction in Awka, some appointees of the Anambra State governor were seen jubilating, over the inclusion of Soludo’s name in the list of candidates. A special assistant to the…
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President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has listed some conditions that would enable the All Progressives Congress, APC, to retain power in 2023. Lawan said the APC must ensure youth representation in governance to facilitate active participation in policy matters and decision making processes. He pointed out that concerted effort must be made by the ruling party to manage its successes by ensuring that it sustains practices that would deepen democracy at all levels. The Senate President spoke while receiving a visiting delegation of the APC Youth National Lobby Committee on Thursday in Abuja. In a statement by his spokesman,…
The Appeal Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the ward congress in Ogun State, on Wednesday, said it had received three petitions from aggrieved party members, including senators representing Ogun West and Ogun East, Tolu Odebiyi and Lekan Mustapha respectively. The Chairman of the five-man committee, Mr. Segun Ojo, at a press briefing on Thursday, said the committee was constituted by the APC national leadership to resolve all issues arising from the conduct of the ward congress. He said, “We are in the state to meet with members of our party that are aggrieved as a result of…
The All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) has asked Senator Hope Uzodinma to “wake up from his slumber” and stop politicking with the lives of Imo people. APGA noted that the state is dirty, adding that it is dangerous for Ndi Imo to live in such a dirty environment. The opposition party, in a statement signed by Comrade Chinagorom Ifeanyi, Director General, DG Imo APGA Media, said the rate of indiscriminate dumping of refuse in Owerri Capital City at the moment cannot be overemphasized. APGA said, “Owerri, Imo State capital, was once rated the cleanest city in Nigeria. An independent investigation…
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is likely to reach national capital on Thursday evening to meet BJP central leadership. Sources said that the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister is likely to meet BJP chief J.P. Nadda and Union Home Minister Amit Shah to discuss party’s poll preparedness in the state. It is learnt that Uttar Pradesh BJP president Swatantra Dev Singh and state unit general secretary Sunil Bansal have reached the national capital. Sources said that BJP poll preparedness for next year’s assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh will be the main agenda of the meeting. “Chief Minister Adityanath is likely…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has met with Prince Uche Secondus, National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The closed-door meeting held in Abeokuta, Ogun State also had in attendance PDP’s National Working Committee (NWC). As at the time of filing this report, the purpose of the meeting was still unknown. Obasanjo, a former member of PDP had years ago publicly renounced the party. The former president had torn his membership card in public after which he stepped back from politics. Meanwhile, there have been calls within the PDP for Secondus to resign. Secondus was accused of failing to properly…
Persons Living with Disabilities (PWDs) in Anambra State have tasked political parties and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the need to grant them equal rights in the forthcoming governorship election. The Chairman of the state chapter of the Joint Association of Persons with Disabilities, Mr Ugochukwu Ernest, stated this at a workshop on ”PWDs Civic and Political Organizing Lab” with political parties in Awka. The event attracted members of the group from all parts of the state, who said they want to be involved in political processes as it also affects their lives. The group said they were…
Taliban commander and senior leader of the Haqqani Network terrorist group, Anas Haqqani, has met former Afghan President Hamid Karzai for talks, a Taliban official said on Wednesday, amid efforts by the Taliban to set up a government. Karzai was accompanied by the old government’s main peace envoy, Abdullah Abdullah, in the meeting, said the Taliban official, who declined to be identified. He gave no more details. The Haqqani Network is an important faction of the Taliban, who captured the capital, Kabul, on Sunday. The network, based on the border with Pakistan, was accused over recent years of some of…
The All Progressives Congress (APC), has announced September 4, 2021 for its local government area Congresses. This was disclosed by Sen. John Akpanudoedehe, Secretary of APC Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) on Wednesday, in Abuja, NAN reports. Akpanudoedehe, in a statement, said the purchase of forms for ward, local government areas and state congresses would begin from August 18 to 28. He said screening of prospective aspirants would be from August 31st to September 2nd. The APC spokesman said local government congresses, including three-man delegates for the party’s National Convention, would be on September 4th, while appeals arising…
Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has said the door is still open to those who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to the All Progressives Party (APC), during the last gubernatorial elections in the state, noting that they have been forgiven. Governor Diri, who disclosed that so many have returned back to PDP which is their place of rest, asked party members to keep reaching out until they bring the remaining decampees. The governor made the call during the official commissioning of the new PDP secretariat in Yenagoa the city capital on Wednesday. The ceremony also signalled the…
The Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) has called on some political parties to withdraw from the forthcoming governorship contest in Anambra State as their inconsistencies in candidature was confusing the people. Publicity Secretary of the party’s campaign council, Mr Afam Dozie Ofomata in a press conference held at the party’s secretariat in Awka, yesterday, listed the parties to include; the All Progressives Congress (APC), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). Ofomata said the confusion trailing the authenticity of candidates of the mentioned political parties was capable of confusing Anambra electorates. “We are urging the All…
The All Progressive Congress governors have commended President Muhammadu Buhari for signing the Petroleum Industry Bill into law. Chairman, Progressives Governors Forum and Kebbi State Governor, Atiku Bagudu, in Abuja, made this known in a statement on Wednesday. He said the governors expressed gratitude to the President for breaking the jinx of a bill that has dodged the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill for over two decades. “The Progressive Governors Forum commends Mr President for this historic feat of moving the nation forward to a new democratic era of governance and business management of the oil and gas industry.…
US President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson have agreed to hold a virtual meeting of G-7 countries next week on the fast-unfolding developments in Afghanistan. Biden and Johnson spoke over phone regarding the developments in Afghanistan, the White House said on Tuesday, adding that the two leaders commended the bravery and professionalism of their military and civilian personnel, who are working together in Kabul on the evacuation of their citizens and Afghan nationals who assisted in the war effort. They also discussed the need for continued close coordination among allies and democratic partners on Afghanistan policy going…
The leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has commenced moves to ensure that it takes over Taraba State in 2023. Speaking in Jalingo, the state capital, the former Minister of Power and one time Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey, Ahmad A. Malammadori, said the party has resolved to entrench internal democracy in the state chapter of the party. More to that, the party according to Malammadori who was also the state congress appeal chairman, said the party has as well resolved to carry the entire members of the party along irrespective of the differences in background. Urging the…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), youth wing, has appealed to the party’s leadership to zone the presidency to the North in the 2023 general elections. The party’s youths under the auspices of PDP National Youth Movement explained that a public survey carried out revealed that only a northern candidate would help the party win the 2023 elections. A statement issued by the group’s President, Engr Salahudeen A Lukman, observed that upon the return of democracy in 1999, the South had occupied the exalted seat of the President for 14 years, saying that the North would have spent 10 years on…
Ahead of 2023, leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Salvation Force, NDPSF, Mujahid Asari-Dokubo has said the youths in Nigeria must step forward and take power from the older generation. Asari made the remark while backing former military Head of State, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, IBB, remark on the age bracket of Nigeria’s next president. Babangida had recently listed qualities the next president of Nigeria should possess. Among the qualities listed, the former military ruler said the next president should be within 60 years of age. IBB also pointed out that the next president of Nigeria should have friends everywhere, must…
Former Kogi West Senator, Dino Melaye, has disclosed that the All Progressives Congress, APC, would break up before the 2023 elections. Melaye said APC is not a political party but a Non-Governmental Organization, NGO. He also explained that the ruling party faced an imminent implosion due to the “illegality” of the Governor Mai Mala-Buni-led Caretaker Committee. The former APC chieftain noted that Buni’s appointment as caretaker chairman contravenes Section 183 of the 1999 Constitution as well as the Article 17(iv) of APC Constitution. Melaye, a staunch critic of the APC government spoke in a statement he titled: “The Ilegality or…
Taliban have agreed to allow safe passage from Afghanistan for civilians hoping to join a US-directed airlift from the capital, President Joe Biden’s national security adviser said Tuesday, although a timetable for completing the evacuation of Americans, Afghan allies and possibly other civilians has yet to be worked out with the country’s new rulers. Jake Sullivan acknowledged reports that some civilians were encountering resistance, being turned away or pushed back or even beaten, as they tried to reach the Kabul international airport. He said very large numbers were reaching the airport and the problem of others was being taken up…
A non-governmental, non-partisan pressure group, Save Anambra Group (SAG), has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of fueling controversies over candidature in some political parties in Anambra State. The group frowned at the activities of INEC, which they said have denied some political parties of their choices of governorship candidates, by recognizing other candidates that are not sponsored and supported by them. In a statement issued on Monday in Awka, and signed by the National Coordinator of SAG, Dr. Okwuoma Okeke, the group expressed worry that the INEC appears complicit, by giving tacit encouragement to some individual/group in the…
Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has asked the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike to stop using the state’s money to destroy top sons and daughters of the state. Eze also called on the Governor to leave the embattled National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Uche Secondus alone, adding that governors that left the main opposition party did so because of Wike’s overbearing attitude. Eze, an erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP, also lauded PDP Board of Trustees, BoT and governors for standing against Wike and rescuing the…