The Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission, KadSIECOM, is to conduct election into the 23 local government councils of the state on 18th May 2021. KADSIECOM overseer, Ibrahim Sambo announced the official date for the 2021 LG elections in the state. He emphasized that the move is to ensure that the Kaduna State government does not disobey the law by giving short notice of the election. “To safeguard going against the law, the commission decided to give this notice. Going by the law, we are supposed to give political parties 90 days notice.” Ibrahim Sambo made the declaration during the issuance…
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The Speaker of the Osun State House of Assembly, Timothy Owoeye has urged the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to be mature in picking its flagbearer for the 2023 presidential election. TheInfoStride reports that Owoeye made this known in a brief remark on Monday while revalidating his membership of the party in Unit 6, Ward 10, Ilesha East Local Government Area of the State. The lawmaker recalled that the euphoria which greeted the formation of the APC in 2013 was one of hope and greatness for Nigeria. The Speaker who compared the merger of the ACN, CPC, ANPP and the…
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has refuted reports of his defection to the All Progressives Congress, APC. Jonathan said he is still a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Speaking at the supreme court victory/ thanksgiving service of the Bayelsa State governor, the former president described PDP “as a friend that carries people along.” According to Jonathan: “PDP has been a very friendly party, I am a member of PDP and I know from the beginning till today, it has been a very friendly party, PDP is a party that carries everybody along and we should extend that to Bayelsa…
A war is coming up soon in Nigeria, says Olusegun Obasanjo, former President of Nigeria (GCFR). Another civil war in Nigeria has become imminent and inevitable. The reason for its inevitability is simply because Muhammadu Buhari, the Northern Nigeria Fulani oligarchs and the wider network of Fulani in Sub-Saharan Africa have concluded plans to adopt Nigeria as the homeland for all Fulani in Africa. Fulani have realised that the wandering and rootless lifestyle of cattle herding is no longer tenable in the twenty-first century. Fulani need to have land to call home and rear cattle and that land should be…
PDP says Sanwo-Olu is more interested in the billions of naira generated at the Lekki tollgate than the welfare of Lagosians. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has slammed Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lago State over the arrest of Lekki tollgate protesters on Saturday, February 13, 2021. The opposition party said the arrest showed that Governor Sanwo-Olu led administration in Lagos prioritises the billions of naira generated at the Lekki tollgate over the welfare of the residents of the state. The Lagos Judicial Panel investigating the alleged killing of #EndSARS protesters had on Saturday, February 6, 2021, approved the reopening of…
The party’s resolution is said to be based on the recent happenings in preparation for the forthcoming LG election in the state. The All Progressives Congress (APC), Sokoto State Chapter, has resolved to boycott the forthcoming local government (LG) election in the state. The position of the party was made known by the state APC Chairman, Alhaji Isah Achida, at a news conference on Sunday in Sokoto. According to Achida, the resolution was based on the recent happenings in preparation for the forthcoming LG election in the state. “It is on record that when the members of the present Sokoto…
Ayodele Fayose, a former Governor of Ekiti State has called on Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State to be proactive in handling the security challenges in the State. Fayose said that the Governor must sit up and share the experience of former governors such as himself (Fayose) for him to tackle the challenges squarely. Fayose, who was a guest to Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, recalled how he handled a security situation similar to that of Igangan, where some Yoruba youths had issued quit notice and attempted to evict the Fulani community from the area. The latest security breakdown in Oyo…
A former Governor of Ekiti State and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ayodele Fayose, has said that anyone leaving the main opposition party for the All Progressives Congress, APC, at this time is taken away by his own covetousness. He also said that he had no intention whatsoever to dump the PDP for the ruling party because he was not a dishonourable man. The former Governor said that he had gone too far and had spoken too much to now join the APC, adding that the PDP offered him all the opportunities anybody could offer. Appearing on Channels…
Information made available to the media indicates that a former Deputy Governor of Osun State and Social Democratic Party (SDP) governorship candidate in the 2018 Osun gubernatorial election, Senator Iyiola Omisore, will today decamp to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The decision to decamp to the APC was not known as at press time but facts on the table reveal that it is a strategic move in the political permutations ahead of the 2022 gubernatorial election in Osun State. Recall that Senator Omisore was also the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate in the 2014 gubernatorial election in the State. In 2014,…
There was mild drama in Zamfara State after the first executive governor of the state, Senator Ahmed Sani Yarima could not trace his name in the All Progressive Congress (APC) master list of members. The situation caused confusion among the former governor’s supporters who noted that he was exempted from the nationwide revalidation and registration exercise of the APC without reason. TheInfoStride gathered that Senator Ahmed Sani Yarima arrived in Bakura, his home town on Friday for the registration and revalidation exercise of the All Progressive Congress (APC). Our correspondent reports that the revalidation committee ignored the Senator, who thereafter,…
Senator representing the Oyo Central senatorial district, Teslim Folarin on Sunday said the ongoing All Progressives Congress (APC) membership registration and revalidation exercise would help the party secure victory in 2023 general elections. The senator made the assertion after he revalidated his membership on Sunday at Ward 5, Idi Ose, Ona Ara Local Government Area (LGA) of the state. Folarin, the Chairman Senate Committee on Local Content said the population of those participating in the exercise was encouraging and hoped for 2023 victory. Recall that the exercise had in the last few days witnessed a large turnout of youths and…
The caretaker committee chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Enugu State, Dr. Ben Nwoye has said the party is ready to register members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, even at night. Nwoye spoke on Sunday shortly after revalidating his membership at his Afianwakpaka 00-12 pooling unit, in Amuri ward, Nkanu West Council area of Enugu State. He said the APC was ready to welcome all, including “our brothers and sisters willing to dump the PDP for our party. “If you don’t want to come during the day time to register, maybe because you are ashamed, we are…
As the All Progressives Congress continues with its ongoing membership registration and revalidation exercise across the electoral wards of the seventeen local government areas of Abia State, a two-time Governorship candidate and chieftain of the APC, Alex Otti has revalidated his membership of the party. The exercise was done at his Umuru Nvosi ward in Isiala Ngwa South Local Government Area of Abia State and was witnessed by the APC Registration/ Revalidation Committee from the National Secretariat Abuja led by Ambassador Bala Mohammed Maigairi. Otti while speaking after the revalidation exercise, thanked the APC registration committee for the visit and…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, Mr. Jide Adeyemi, has declared that it is not enough for youths in the country to complain about bad governance only in the social media. Adeyemi noted that it is not enough for youths in the country to express their opinions about the state of things in the country only on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram because the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will not count their posts, comments and likes during elections. He made the declaration while speaking with journalists shortly after revalidating his membership of APC at Ita…
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta on Sunday congratulated his Bayelsa counterpart, Sen. Douye Diri, on the first anniversary of his administration. Okowa, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Olisa Ifeajika, in Asaba, thanked God for the success of the first year of the “prosperity” administration in Bayelsa. He said that Bayelsa had become more peaceful and united since Diri took over the mantle of governance a year ago. He urged the governor to remain on that lane of focused development and evolution of peace in the state. Okowa thanked the people of Bayelsa for supporting the Diri…
US President, Joe Biden has reacted to the outcome of former President, Donald Trump’s trial at the Senate. Trump was on Saturday acquitted of the US Capitol insurrection charges against him. And in reaction, Biden, who took over from Trump last month said that the Capitol attack showed that, “democracy is fragile.” After the House of Representatives had impeached him for a second time last month, the Senate voted 57-43 to acquit Trump in his second impeachment trial and first in US history. “While the final vote did not lead to a conviction, the substance of the charge is not…
The Director-General of the Voice of Nigeria, VON, Mr. Osita Okechukwu has declared that the ongoing membership revalidation and registration exercise of the All Progressives Congress, APC, met the constitutional provisions of the party and will most importantly make the people the genuine owners of the party, not Godfathers. Okechukwu spoke in his Eke ward in Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State, weekend, where he revalidated his membership of the party. He said he was surprised that the party’s pioneer national chairman, Pa Bisi Akande, its national leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the immediate past chairman, Comrade Adams…
Former President, Donald Trump was acquitted by the Senate, but the Democrats are not giving up. Although seven Republicans were in favour of his impeachment on Saturday, Trump was exonerated by a vote of 57-43 guilty – not guilty. It was the 45th President’s second good luck at the upper chamber of the U.S. Congress in twelve months. In February 2020, the Senate acquitted him after the House of Representatives’ conviction for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Last month, the lower chamber again impeached Trump for the January 6 invasion of the U.S. Capitol. The charge was “incitement…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration of promoting bad governance. This was contained in a statement by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan on Saturday. The statement alleged that Buhari lacked the capacity to effectively manage the affairs of the nation, adding that the economy has grown worst. PDP said it is worried over the level of insecurity ravaging the entire country, stressing that the country is divided under the Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration. The statement laments “the escalated sectional conflicts in various parts of the country; the bloody ethnic clashes currently…
A coalition of ZLP, PDP, SDP, ADC and a faction of AD produced Makinde as governor of the state in 2019. The All Progressives Congress (APC) and Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) in Oyo State have commenced merger talks aimed at ousting the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Government of Seyi Makinde in 2023. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that major stakeholders from both parties met at Premier Hotel in Ibadan on Friday. The APC group was led by Chief Akin Oke, the State Caretaker Committee Chairman, while Alhaji Sharafadeen Alli, the 2019 ZLP Governorship candidate in the state…