Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, has said he deserved accolades for defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the governing All Progressive Congress, APC, rather than attacks on his person by leaders of the former ruling party. Governor Umahi insisted that his recent defection to the APC is a strong message that the South East Zone can no longer be taken for a ride, positing that the zone is now ready and willing more than ever to take its destiny by its hands. Umahi who spoke in a statement made available to DAILY POST on Friday by his Special…
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The Lagos State Police Command has ordered restriction of movement between 6am and 6pm on Saturday, December 5, 2020, ahead of the bye-elections into the Lagos East Senatorial and Kosofe 11 Constituency. The State Commissioner of Police, CP Hakeem Odumosu, made the declaration on Thursday, while deliberating on strategies put in place by the election monitoring officers deployed from the Force Headquarters in Abuja. Odumosu reiterated that there will not be vehicular and pedestrian movement in and out of the affected local government areas during the elections. However, those on election duties, essential services and accredited domestic and foreign election…
The Court of Appeal sitting in Owerri, Imo State, on Friday, sacked Senator Ifeanyi Araraume as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC for the Imo North by-election. Justice Uchechukwu Onyemenam delivered the judgment less than 24 hours to the bye-election. The Imo North by-election holds on Saturday, December 5, in the 64 wards across the six Local Government Areas. Justice Onyemenam declared Frank Ibezim, the authentic candidate of the ruling party APC ahead of the election. The judge faulted an earlier judgement of the Federal High Court of November 6 which sacked Ibezim. The justice ordered the Independent…
Former President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki has advised politicians, irrespective of political parties, to put their 2023 political ambition on hold and focus on solutions to security challenges facing Nigeria. Former Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki. Saraki gave the advice in Abuja on Wednesday, at the inauguration of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Reconciliation and Strategic Committee. “It is legitimate for politicians to have ambition (but) this is the time for us to put our ambition on hold,” he said. Saraki, who is the Chairman of the Reconciliation Committee of the PDP, said the pre-occupation of leaders for…
A faction of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Kano State has expressed readiness to participate in the forthcoming Local Government elections in the State scheduled for January 2021. The state Interim Chairman of the faction, Muhammina Lamido, announced this while briefing newsmen on Wednesday in Kano. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that on Tuesday the Kwankwasiyya faction of the PDP addressed newsmen that they will not partake in the forthcoming election. According to Lamido, “the attention of the PDP interim administrative committee in Kano State has been drawn to a media statement accredited to one Danladi Abdulhamid…
The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Anambra, Chief Basil Ejidike, says he is optimistic that more people will decamp to the party ahead of the Nov. 2021 governorship poll in the state. Ejidike said this on Thursday in an interview with newsmen, pointing out that APC remained the party to beat in the election. He spoke on the sideline of the burial of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Francisca Ofoegbu, in Igbo Ukwu, Aguata Local Government Area of the state. He described the party as the best political platform that would propel the South-East to produce the nation’s president…
The opposition party defines the APC as an anti-people party that supports terrorism. President Muhammadu Buhari [Presidency] The Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) has asked Nigerians to hold President Muhammadu Buhari and then ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) responsible for the incessant killing of innocent Nigerians by terrorists. In a statement on Thursday, December 3, 2020, the opposition party said some APC leaders support terrorism because of their selfish interest. “The PDP has asked Nigerians to hold officials of the Buhari Presidency and the anti-people APC responsible for the festering violence and incessant killing of innocent Nigerians by terrorists. “The…
A former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, has said President Muhammadu Buhari needs to seek forgiveness from God because he has failed Nigerians. Lamido stated this during an interview with BBC Hausa. He lamented the killing of farmers in Borno State by Boko Haram and insisted “something is wrong somewhere”. According to him, Buhari needs to drop his arrogance. He also asked him to resign. “There is no way a government can go successfully without sabotage but you need to be strong enough to overcome such challenges. If really he cannot withstand this, he has to resign, but we…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Lagos State says it has received and dispatched sensitive materials for Saturday’s Lagos East Senatorial and Kosofe Constituency II House of Assembly by-elections to the affected council areas. INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, Sam Olumekun, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Lagos that the materials were received and dispatched in the full glare of the political parties’ representatives and security agencies to ensure transparency. “We have received and sent the various sensitive materials for the by-elections to the five local government areas where the elections will hold. “These materials were…
Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, son of the late Biafran leader and founder of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), has attacked his late father’s wife, Bianca over claims that the Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano cannot replace her husband. Bianca Ojukwu had recently attacked APGA over plans to name Obiano as the leader of the party, on the premise that he knows nothing of the ideals and ideology that prompted her late husband to found APGA. But her late husband’s son, Ojukwu Jnr in a statement insisted that some of the claims made by his father’s wife over what his father told…
Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State has told members of the State Executive Council to remain focused on the government’s developmental agenda or resign, rather than allowing the 2022 governorship struggle to truncate his vision. The governor spoke in Ado Ekiti, on Thursday, during a retreat with the theme: ‘Finishing well and sustaining progressive leadership in Ekiti State’. Fayemi said the programme was conceptualised to appraise the gains and challenges he has made in the second year of his tenure, with a focus that there is room for improvement. The governor, however, advised the commissioners and other cabinet members having…
Bola Tinubu, a National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Thursday, met with the Governor of Osun State, Gboyega Oyetola and the Minister for Interior, Rauf Aregbesola. The meeting, which was held behind closed-door at the residence of a chieftain of the party, Bisi Akande in Ila Orangun, was to broker peace between Oyetola and Aregbesola. Oyetola, a member of the APC took over leadership from Aregbesola in 2018. However, shortly after assuming power, there were reports of rift between the governor and his predecessor, as Oyetola was said to have scrapped some programmes initiated by Aregbesola.
Some suspected hoodlums numbering about 20, on Thursday, sacked the Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa during the hearing into the pre-election suit between the candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Ebifemowei and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Cleopas Moses ahead of the December 5 National Assembly bye-election in the state. The invasion, which occurred at about 1.30pm while the presiding judge, Justice Jane Inyang was not on seat, caused pandemonium with many lawyers sustaining injuries in a stampede. TheInfoStride learnt that an ongoing suit was stood down by Justice Jane Inyang to allow parties to regularise their…
Kogi State legislators at the plenary on Wednesday passed a motion, urging governor Yahaya Bello to run for the office of the president or Vice president of Nigeria in 2023 because of “his track records”. The motion calling for Bello to contest for president was sponsored by the lawmaker representing Olamabaro constituency in the state House of Assembly, Hon. Ujah Alewo Anthony, and was seconded by Hon. Milano Olushola Olumu, representing Ijumu constituency. After deliberation, the House unanimously passed a vote of confidence on Governor Bello over exceptional security, creative governance style, unifying leadership quality, youth inclusion principle as well…
President Muhammadu Buhari will address the House of Representatives on insecurity in Nigeria. The Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila made the confirmation on Wednesday. The lawmaker spoke to State House correspondents after meeting with Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Gbaja disclosed that a date had been agreed and will be made public soon. The Speaker said the President is concerned about the spate of insecurity in the country. On Tuesday at the plenary, the Green Chamber of the National Assembly agreed on a motion to invite Buhari. This followed the Borno massacre by Boko Haram last Saturday. More than 40 farmers…
Dino Melaye, former Senator representing Kogi West has sent a strong message to those planning to defect to the All Progressives Congress, APC. Melaye, a PDP Chieftain on Wednesday told those planning to leave the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP not to be deceived, adding that no one in the APC can be trusted. According to him, “the only APC member you can trust is a dead one.” Melaye gave the warning on his official Twitter page. The former lawmaker wrote: “Those planning to leave PDP, my humble advice. The only APC man you can trust is the dead APC man.…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has shot down reports of “reconciliation” with Aare Ona Kakanfo, Gani Adams. The “peace meeting” was purportedly held on Wednesday in Lagos. In a statement by spokesman, Kehinde Akinyemi, Obasanjo said his visit to a Yoruba leader, Ayo Adebanjo, was not a reconciliatory one. “It is true that I paid a personal visit to Chief Ayo Adebanjo at his residence in Lekki Phase 1 on December 2, 2020 and I met Gani Adams there. “I have no quarrel with Gani Adams, but for his past way of life, which was not in accord with my standards…
Stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ohaukwu Local Government of Ebonyi State, have warned Governor Dave Umahi against his continued verbal attacks on the person of Senator Sam Egwu. Senator Egwu represents Ebonyi North Senatorial District in the Upper Chamber of Nigeria National Assembly and hailed from Ohaukwu Local Government Area of the state. However, the PDP Stakeholders, in a communiqué after their enlarged meeting on Tuesday and forwarded to DAILY POST on Wednesday night, reminded Umahi that Senator Sam Egwu and former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Chief Anyim Pius Anyim made him Governor…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has appointed former Senate President, Bukola Saraki to head its national reconciliation committee. The committee also has onetime Senate President, Anyim Pius Anyim, and ex-governor of Cross River State; Liyel Imoke as members. Other members of the committee include, former governor of Gombe State, Ibrahim Dankwambo; ex-Katsina governor, Ibrahim Shema and Hon. Mulikat Akande. A statement by PDP’s National Secretary, Anicho Okoro said the committee would be inaugurated today by 12 noon in Abuja. A terse statement titled: “Inauguration of PDP National Reconciliation Committee,” reads: “May I respectfully convey your membership of the above Committee…
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has refuted speculations that former Imo State Governor, Emeka Ihedioha, has concluded plans to join the All Progressives Congress (APC). In a statement on Tuesday, Ogubundu Nwadike, Imo PDP Publicity Secretary, said it was untrue that the ex-Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, and some PDP stalwarts were set to decamp. The spokesman noted that Ihedioha, being a life member of the National Executive Committee (NEC), is a stakeholder and leader whose loyalty to the PDP since formation has never been called to question. “His integrity quotient has been tested and proven. We are…