Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has again mocked the All Progressives Congress (APC). He noted that unlike the APC, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) does not make fake promises. Wike spoke when he led ex-Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, to inaugurate the Abonnema Ring Road in Akuku Toru Local Government Area on Thursday. He described allegations that his administration refused to empower local contracting firms to handle projects as sheer falsehood. “APC members have said I should mention those whom, locally, we have empowered. OK Isokariari Company is a Rivers Company, they did Phase One of Okochiri Road. They…
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The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kano State, has confirmed the swapping of 13 accused screened drug-addicted aspiring Councillors in this month’s local government election. The state party’s Secretary, Alhaji Sarina, said a local government chairman contestant was, however, cleared after he was certified by a competent medical doctor to go for the contest. This is even as the party presented flags to its candidates ahead of the local government council election scheduled for January 16. The event took place at the Sani Abacha Stadium, Kofar Mata, with multitude of APC supporters in attendance. Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, assisted by…
What looks like a factional crisis is brewing in the Ekiti State chapter of the Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), as some stakeholders have rejected the reelection of Mr. Ifeoluwa Iyaniwura, as the Chairman of the body. At the election conducted at the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) in Ado Ekiti, on Thursday, Iyaniwura polled a total of eight votes to defeat his rival and State Chairman, Action Alliance (AA), Mr. Lanre Anifowose, who garnered six votes. The Chairman, IPAC Electoral Panel from Abuja, Mr. Obe Opunkun, declared Iyaniwura winner of the election that was supervised by INEC. However,…
The Ebonyi State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has raised the alarm over what it called a deliberate attempt to frustrate the commencement of its appeal before the Enugu Division of the Court of Appeal. TheInfoStride reports that the matter, with suit No HAB/161/2020, involves members of the party in Ebonyi State. In a complaint letter by the Acting Chairman of the PDP in the State, Elder Fred Udeogu, he said every effort by the party to complete its process of filing an appeal has met with brick wall owing to the alleged gimmick by the Head of…
Dr Olatunde Agbato, the President, Animal Care Services Konsult (NIG.) Limited, Ogere Remo situated in Ogun State, has been reported dead. He was aged 70. Dr Olatunde Agbato met his demise on Thursday afternoon after suffering a brief ailment in an undisclosed hospital. Dr Olatunde Agbato, who celebrated his 70th birthday on August 4, 2020, as gathered from a credible source, was reported to have been ill for over 4 weeks [a month] and was unable to be flown out of Nigeria due to the COVID-19 Lockdown. More so, it was gathered that the entire Ogere community where he hailed…
The Lagos State Chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to strive hard to provide satisfactory dividends of democracy to residents of the state in 2021. The state PDP Publicity Secretary, Mr Taofik Gani, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Thursday, while assessing Sanwo-Olu’s performance in 2020. “As a constructive opposition party, the year 2020 was not satisfactory in terms of dividends of democracy to Lagos residents. “Most of the local council chairmen performed below average, Sanwo-Olu should look into that because the chairmen are putting too…
The governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Ogun State, Gboyega Nasir Isiaka, has denied collecting money from chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2019 election. Isiaka, a three-time governorship candidate in Ogun State came third in the 2019 election, which was won by Governor Dapo Abiodun of the APC. In the build-up to the election, it was gathered that there were efforts made that Isiaka and Adekunle Akinlade of the Allied People’s Movement (APM) could join forces so as to give Ogun West a better chance of producing a governor for the first time…
US President, Donald Trump, has insisted that there will be an orderly transition of power on January 20, 2021. He said this in a statement after a joint session of the US Congress declared President-elect, Joe Biden of the Democratic Party as the country’s President. Trump, who refused to condemn the violent protests at the US Capitol building in Washington DC on Wednesday, said he didn’t agree with the election result but would step down peacefully. “Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out, nevertheless, there will be an orderly transition…
The United States Congress has confirmed Joe Biden as the country’s President. Lawmakers who officially confirmed Biden as the country’s 46th president and Kamala Harris as Vice President, were under heavily-armed guard after police regained control of the Capitol in Washington. Biden had defeated the US outgoing President, Donald Trump in the last presidential election. Despite the defeat, Trump had vowed never to concede defeat. He had claimed that Biden rigged the presidential election.
The United States, US, President-Elect, Joe Biden has reacted to the violent riot at the country’s Capitol. Biden called on the outgoing President, Donald Trump to fulfil his oath on national television and defend the country’s constitution. Recall that a violent protest had erupted at the US Capitol after Trump addressed his followers vowing “never to concede” defeat. During the protest, a woman was shot dead. Reacting, Biden said the incident was not a representation of who Americans are. In a series of tweets on his verified Twitter handle, Biden insisted that Americans practice a lawful and respectful democracy. He…
Olusegun Bamgbose, National Coordinator, Concerned Advocates for Good Governance, CAGG, has advised Igbo leaders against neglecting the popularity of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, in their quest to produce the next President of Nigeria come 2023. Igbo leaders met at Igbere, Abia State recently and declared their readiness to prevail on the two major parties, the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to field candidates from the South East. Bamgbose, who is also eyeing the position, described this as no doubt a tall dream, but added that the earlier the Igbo…
The Kwara State government has denied sacking Mr Bolaji Edun, the Director-General (DG) of Bureau of Lands, as being reported by a section of the media. Mr Rafiu Ajakaye, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, made this known in a statement on Wednesday in Ilorin. Rather, Ajakaye said that Edun was redeployed to another government office since the bureau of lands had been merged with the newly created Geographic Information Service (GIS). Edun said, “There is a cessation of the office of the DG Lands in the State. The bureau of lands is now a department under the recently-created…
Former President Barack Obama has declared that President Donald Trump incited Wednesday’s attack on the United States Capitol. Obama called the incident a great dishonor and shame for America. A violent protest erupted after Trump addressed his followers, vowing “never to concede”. The former leader said history will remember the incident “incited by a sitting president who has continued to baselessly lie about the outcome of a lawful election, as a moment of great dishonor and shame for our nation”. “We’d be kidding ourselves if we treated it as a total surprise”, Obama’s statement read. He noted that for two…
The Edo State High Court sitting in Benin has nullified Audu Ganiyu, the All Progressives Congress deputy governorship candidate in the September 19, 2020 gubernatorial election in the state. The court voided Ganiyu’s candidacy in the election on Wednesday, January 6, 2021. Kadiri Oshoakhemhe, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had in a suit No: B/358/20 filed a case against Ganiyu and two others. While delivering judgement on Wednesday, the presiding judge, Justice H. A Courage-Ogbebor said the deputy governorship candidate presented false information to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in his Form EC9, Punch reports. Ganiyu…
The former PDP member said they defected to the APC because they are not satisfied with the current PDP leadership in the state. A group of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) supporters in Kungurki Ward in Kaura Namoda Local Government Area (LGA) of Zamfara has defected to All Progressives Congress (APC). The group announced its defection at a ceremony on Wednesday in Sabongarin Kaura in Kaura-Namoda. Speaking on behalf of the group, Malam Bala Ayuba said that the former PDP members under three different groups decided to leave the party for APC. “We decided to defect to APC because we are…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Elders’ Forum in Ekiti State has called on all communities in the state to raise Census Committees ahead of the forthcoming National Population Census. Rising from its end of the year meeting held in Igbara Odo, Ekiti Southwest Local Government Area, the Ekiti APC elders urged the people of the state to participate actively in the ongoing enumeration area demarcation exercise being conducted by the National Population Commission (NPC). A communique issued at the end of the meeting made available to DAILY POST on Wednesday and signed by the Chairman, Asiwaju George Akosile and the…
A chieftain of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, in Abia State, Chief Chris Nkwota, on Wednesday, announced the resignation of his membership to the party. Nkwota, two time Abia South Senatorial Candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, in Abia State, announced this in a letter dated 28th December 2020 and addressed to Akwete Ohandu Ward PDP executive. A copy of the letter was made available to newsmen in Umuahia on Wednesday afternoon. He cited irregularities and other ugly events that allegedly took place in APGA before, during and after the 2019 general elections as reasons for dumping the…
The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has warned the All Progressives Congress (APC) not to fight when they have to hand over to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2023. Governor Wike also emphasised that Nigerians were earnestly waiting for the PDP to return to power. The governor’s assistant on media,Kelvin Ebiri, disclosed this in a statement after the inauguration of some state projects. He said: “Eleme people, I want to sincerely thank you for the support that you’ve given to me and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). “Do not relent. Continue because the hope of this country depends…
Former Governor of Kano State and incumbent senator representing Kano Central, Senator Ibrahim Shekarau, in this encounter, spoke on why Nigerians cannot have the desired change they want to see. This was as he said Nigerians are not doing the right thing to elect the right leaders from the ward level to the top to bring about the leadership that would change the narrative of the nation. The Senator also said ahead of the 2023 general elections, common sense should prevail on the choice of who becomes the President as quality leadership should be the watchword. The Senator while reeling…
The institution says Obaseki graduated from there and was awarded a certificate. Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo opened his defence on Tuesday at the Federal High Court Abuja, calling two witnesses one of whom was the Deputy Registrar, Legal, University of Ibadan, Mr Abayomi Ajayi. Ajayi told the court that the fact that some parts of Obaseki’s original degree certificate were missing in the photocopy he attached to his INEC form EC9 and 001 did not amount to forgery. The witness, who was led in evidence by Mr Ken Mozia (SAN), Obaseki’s counsel, explained that Obaseki’s photocopy was incomplete due…