Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, on Wednesday, accused the Federal Government of Nigeria of shielding the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, from prosecution for purportedly misappropriating proceeds from the sales of some of the state’s assets. Wike said it was awful that the FG had continued to protect the minister from prosecution for his alleged inability to account for $308million from the sales of the state-owned power plant and other critical assets when he was Rivers Governor. The governor spoke during the inauguration of 6.1km long, 7.3m wide Omuihuechi-Omuoko-Omokiri link Road in Aluu Ikwerre Local Government Area. This was…
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The promoters of the mega party being planned ahead of the 2023 are reaching out to stakeholders. There are speculations that some of the proponents are members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The new platform, it was gathered, plans to register with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) before the end of 2021. The Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) says it has no plans to merge with any political party. The National Chairman, Falalu Bello, confirmed that the mega party planners had started inviting prospective allies. Bello told reporters in Abuja on Wednesday…
Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State has advised youths of the state to stay off politics until the succeed in the pursuit of their dreams. The governor made the assertion on Wednesday during an Ebonyi State EndSARS Summit hosted by the state government in Abakaliki. According to him: “Remove your minds from politics and succeed first. Those who are manipulating politics are the wealthy men and women. “That man that made every one of us be a councillor, go and find out his situation. Has he made any progress? The answer is no.” The governor, who advised the youths to…
All the nominees served in one capacity or the other during Akeredolu’s first term in office. Ondo State House of Assembly, on Tuesday, screened and confirmed the four commissioner-nominees sent to it by Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Akeredolu had, on March 3, sent the names of the nominees to the assembly for confirmation, through his Chief of Staff, Olugbenga Omole. The commissioner designates are Mr Wale Akinterinwa, Mr Raimi Olayiwola, Mr Donald Ojogo, and Charles Titiloye. NAN also reports that all the nominees had served in one capacity or the other during Akeredolu’s…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the South-South geopolitical zone has elected a new executive committee. The party has also vowed to reclaim power at the centre in 2023. During the election which took place at Obi Wali Conference Centre, Port Harcourt, Chief Dan Orbih, who ran unopposed, emerged as the National Vice Chairman of the party in the geopolitical zone. Other elected officers, who also emerged unopposed, were Felix Omenu, Zonal Secretary; Anthony Ikuenobe, Financial Secretary; Evelyn Weke, Treasurer; George Turnah, Legal Adviser; Lloyd Owonaru, Youth Leader and Tessy Toru, Woman leader. The election was conducted by an electoral…
Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State on Wednesday said he would confirm his interest to run for the presidency in 2023 at the right time. Bello made the remark while reacting to a report alleging that he disclosed his decision to run for the presidency in 2023. The governor, who spoke with the media through his Chief Press Secretary, Onogwu Muhammed, said his immediate attention was delivering his electoral promises to his people. He noted that Nigerians have been calling on Bello to run for the presidency due to his good works in the state. Bello was said to have…
Destiny Akaraka Nwagwu has emerged the flag bearer of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the coming bye election for the vacant seat of Aba North/Aba South federal constituency. This is following the demise of the former occupant, Hon Ossy Prestige, who was a member of APGA and died in Germany last month from undisclosed illness. In a well attended party primaries held in Aba, on Monday, Destiny Nwagwu, who also was the House of Assembly candidate of APGA during the 2019 election, polled a total votes of 658 to emerge the party’s standard bearer, defeating Hon Obinna Ichita,…
Rochas Okorocha, Imo West Senator, has said 2023 is the right time for the Southeast to produce Nigeria’s President. Okorocha said the mood of the country was ripe for a president of Igbo extraction. The former Imo State governor made the remark yesterday in Abuja while playing host to a pressure group, Ndi Igbo Good Governance Initiative (NGGI). He pointed out that denying Igbos presidency in 2023 would amount to injustice. “It was morally just for the country to support the Igbos to produce the next president. “The mood of the nation has changed and there is so much division,…
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed satisfaction with the way and manner the February 20 run-off presidential election was conducted in Republic of Niger. The president, who made his feelings known after he was briefed on the elections in the neighbouring country by former Vice-President Namadi Sambo, on Monday at State House, Abuja, said Nigeria was concerned about security in Republic of Niger. Sambo is ECOWAS Head of Mission on the election in Republic of Niger. The Nigerian leader said: “We are concerned about their stability, and I am glad the elections went well. I am happy it was transparent, as…
Taiwo Adisa, Chief Press Secretary to Governor Seyi Makinde, said the All Progressives Congress (APC) was making moves to get the Oyo helmsman to leave the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Adisa, in a statement, noted that the “plot to lure Makinde to the APC” did not come as a surprise. According to him, the opposition was scared of a woeful performance in Oyo in the 2023 governorship election. The spokesman said the governor’s “unprecedented achievements” have surpassed the opposition’s imagination. “Rather than claim that Makinde wants to defect, the truth the APC elements should tell the world is that their…
The Nigerian Youths Movement for Tinubu (NYMT), on Tuesday, urged the National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu to join the 2023 presidential race. The organization declared that Tinubu was the perfect fit to take over from President Muhammadu Buhari. Mukhtar Mukhtar, Director General, NYMT, told reporters in Abuja that he has been the rallying point for progressives in the country. NAN reports that the North-West coordinator, Mustapha Abdrahman, urged the former Lagos State Governor to run. He described Tinubu as a political phenomenon, an astute administrator and successful businessman. “Tinubu has been a vanguard of true federalism…
A High Court sitting in Rivers State has restricted the People Democratic Party (PDP) from conducting the party’s South-South Zonal Congress in Port Harcourt. The court granted the interim injunction restraining the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from going ahead with its South-South zonal congress slated for Port Harcourt today, March 9, 2021. The order was consequent upon a suit instituted against the party by four aggrieved members – Kingsley Ntuisong, Raphael Stephen Ntui, Ogar Solomon Aloho and Odama Thomas Odama. The applicants stressed that they were suing for themselves and also on behalf of some members who emerged PDP chapter…
A group, Recover Nigeria Project has said that it would disrupt the conduct of the Anambra governorship election, scheduled for November 6, 2021. The group said it is unhappy that the Anambra State Government has failed to conduct local government election, thereby denying the people at the grassroots of quality representation. In a letter of notice sent to Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), signed by its leader, Comrade Osita Obi and made available to the media, the group said its members are determined to stake their lives to ensure that the governorship election did not hold, until that of local…
The All Progressives Congress, APC in Oyo State, yesterday, took a swipe at Governor Seyi Makinde over his alleged denial of clandestine plans to cross carpet from the Peoples Democratic Party for known political reasons describing the development as shameful, immoral, and regrettable. The social media platforms were awash, on Monday, by speculations about Gov. Makinde perfecting plans to join the APC has reached out to some powerful stakeholders within and outside the southwest but the report was denied by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, who claimed in a statement that Oyo APC was the…
The Anambra State Government has been served a pre-action notice over the non-conduct of democratic Local Government Election in the State. In the pre-action letter, a group comprising the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Anambra State House of Assembly Candidates 2019, called on the state government to without a further delay, conduct a democratically accepted local government election or risk a lawsuit. The pre-action letter obtained by the media was signed by a lawyer to the group, C.J Okoli Akirika. The letter warned that failure to conduct the LG elections will lead to the group seeking redress in court, saying that…
Former Acting Governor of Ekiti State, Prince Tunji Odeyemi has asked former governor Ayo Fayose to embrace peace initiatives to end the internal wranglings in the State’s Chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Odeyemi at the weekend opined said the hardline posture of the former governor would not do the party any good He condemned attempts by certain forces to label former governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola as an errand boy to the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde. “There is nothing unusual in what governor Makinde did. Even President Muhammadu Buhari at one time or the other…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has declared its readiness to take over power from the All Progressives Congress, APC, in 2023. PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan said the former ruling party was ready to take over power through the ballot box in 2023. Ologbondiyan made the declaration while appearing on Arise Television. He said the challenges of banditry, kidnapping and terrorism are a clear indication that Nigeria needs to be rescued. He said: “Our party is the hope of Nigerians as we speak today. The acts of terrorism, banditry and kidnapping have subsumed our nation. “It shows clearly that…
The Abia State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has picked Hon. Mascot Uzor-Kalu as the flag bearer in the coming Aba North and Aba South federal constituency bye-election. Mascot Uzor Kalu was the Chief of Staff to ex-Governor, Theodore Orji and younger brother to the current Nigerian Senate majority Chief Whip, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu. TheInfoStride recalls that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed March 27 for the Aba North/South bye-election in Abia State. Festus Okoye, INEC National Commissioner, Information and Voter Education, disclosed this in a statement. The election will fill the vacancy caused by…
Sule Lamido, a former Jigawa State Governor, has declared that there is no All Progressives Congress, APC, in Nigeria. According to the former governor and presidential aspirant in the 2019 general election, the ruling party has disintegrated Lamido said that the country was more divided under the APC-led Federal Government. He stated this on Monday during the commissioning of Rumuji-Ibaa-Obele-Isiokpo road in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State. “There is no APC in Nigeria. To us, it is the Nigerian President for the Nigerian people,” he declared. Lamido, who lost the 2019 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential primaries in…
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has rubbished the ongoing membership registration and revalidation exercise of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Wike said this when he received former APC stalwart in Emuoha Local Government Area, Azundah Nkomadu into the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the commissioning of the 16.85km Rumuji-Ibaa-Obele-Isiokpo Road crossing Emuoha and Ikwerre LGAs of Rivers State. The Governor said APC lack the moral right to embark on membership drives across the country, especially in Rivers State where the impact of the party is not being felt. The Governor, therefore, called on Rivers’ people to shun the ongoing registration…