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…
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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…
Chief Magnus Abe, a factional leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, has said that Igo Aguma, sacked Chairman of the state’s Caretaker Committee of the party, was an ally to the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi. According to Abe, Aguma was never in his camp as widely believed, adding that he (Aguma) was free to leave the party. The Supreme Court had last week affirmed the sacking of Aguma as the party’s chairman of the caretaker committee in the state. But speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday, Abe also said that the apex court’s…
Sule Lamido, former Governor of Jigawa State, on Monday, said Nigeria was more divided under the All Progressives Congress, APC. Lamido said Nigeria has witnessed more hate and disunity in the past five years of APC government. He spoke during the inauguration of Rumuji, Ibaa, Obelle Isokpo road in Emouha Local Government Area of Rivers State. The former governor insisted that the ruling party has “no vision and has been disintegrated.” He said: “In the last five years of APC in government, Nigeria has become more divided. “There is more hate and disunity between North and South, East and West,…
The Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) has expressed optimism that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government will resolve all the country’s challenges. PGF expressed confidence in a statement by its Chairman, Governor Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi State in Abuja, while congratulating Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on his 64th birthday, NAN reports. “We join all Nigerians to celebrate this special day with you and your family, we commend your leadership, vision, commitment and loyalty to our nation and to Buhari. “We are confident that we will be able to resolve our national challenges and move our country forward with your dedicated…
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has won all the chairmanship and councillorship positions in the March 6 Delta local government elections. The Chairman of the Delta Independent Electoral Commission (DSIEC), Chief Mike Ogbodu, declared the election results in Asaba on Sunday. Ogbodu said that the PDP cleared all the 25 chairmanship and 500 councillorship positions in the 25 local government areas of the state. “The local government election in Delta State which was conducted on Saturday, March 6, 2021 has been won by the PDP. “According to results collated across the 25 local government areas, the PDP cleared all the…
A Peoples Democratic Party Chieftain, Fidelis Nwankwo has said Igbo’s have good reasons to ask the PDP, to concede the 2023 Presidential slot to the Southeast geopolitical zone. Nwankwo made the assertion while speaking with journalists in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State. He said the south-east region had long ago supported other candidates from other political regions. “I want to be realistic about a South Easterner becoming the President of Nigeria. Forget about sentiments, it is all about doing things the right way. We have two major political parties, that a candidate can reasonably stay and aspire to become the President, namely…