The All Progressives Congress (APC) says justice will always prevail under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. Mr Yekini Nabena, APC Deputy National Publicity Secretary, said this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. Nabena was reacting to a court judgment sentencing Prof. Peter Ogban of the University of Calabar (UNICAL), to three years imprisonment for electoral fraud. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a High Court in Akwa-Ibom, on Thursday, sentenced Ogban, to three years in imprisonment for the offence. The convict who manipulated the result of 2019 Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial poll against the APC,…
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The Borno House of Assembly has passed a Vote of Confidence on Gov. Babagana Zulum. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that an online media outfit had reported that the House was working towards impeaching the governor for gross misconduct. Speaker of the House, Abdulkarim Lawan told newsmen after an emergency sitting on Friday in Maiduguri that the story was totally untrue. Lawan said that the House decided to pass the vote of confidence on the governor because of his outstanding performance especially in the execution of projects across the state. He said that the lawmakers were surprised about…
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has called on Aba residents to vote according to their conscience in the Saturday 27th March, 2021 bye-election for Aba Federal Constituency. The apex Igbo socio-cultural organization said it was desirous of a violence-free poll, urging politicians to emulate Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State. TheInfoStride reports that the election is expected to produce replacement of late Ossy Prestige. In a statement by Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, Secretary General, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, he said desperate politicians should not truncate the will of the people. “Ndigbo are aware of the importance of this election, and Aba-Enyimba is very…
Olusegun Bamgbose, National Coordinator, Concerned Advocates for Good Governance, CAGG, has described the recent N50 million donation made to Katsina State by the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu as politically childish, hypocritical and disappointing. Bamgbose said it was never a bad idea to donate money to assist the traders who lost their goods and shops to the inferno at Katsina Central Market, but wondered why the former Governor of Lagos State never thought it wise and imperative to do same when crisis occurred in Sasa Market in Oyo State. He also wondered why the plight…
The Governor of Borno State, Babagana Zulum, has lent his voice to the call for power to shift to the South in 2023. The Governor spoke at the presentation of a book by Dakuku Perterside, former director-general of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), on Thursday. According to him, with the situation of things in the country currently, it doesn’t matter what part of the South the next president comes from. He also urged the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to keep to previous agreements made to shift power to the southern part of the country in the…
The National Vice Chairman of Labour Party (LP), South South, Prince Favour Reuben has inaugurated the Party in Cross River State. Inaugurating the State Chapter on Thursday, Prince Reuben disclosed that the former chairman defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) about three years ago. He said the move to inaugurate the State Chapter was to reposition the fragmented party to enable it serve the yearning of Cross River people for an alternative platform. “With the near absence of structures of the Labour Party in Cross River State, the national leadership of our great party decided to re-launch and strengthen…
The Tanko Beji-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Niger State, has rejected the recommendations offered by the Senator Bukola Saraki-led committee to restore normalcy in the party. The faction on Thursday in a statement signed by its Media Officer, Yahaya Mohammed Usman and made available to journalists in Minna stated that the decision might be tested in a court of law to strengthen the party’s constitution and obedience to rule of law and democratic tenets. It would be recalled the PDP state Congress that had two main contestants Tanko Benji, outgoing Chairman of the party seeking a…
Chairman of the South West Governors Forum, Rotimi Akeredolu has again warned that the 2023 general elections might be threatened if the insecurity situation in the country worsens. Akeredolu spoke on Channels Television Politics Today interview program. His concern is coming hours after his colleague governor of Benue State Samuel Ortom after a meeting with President Muhammad Buhari in Abuja expressed same concern on the conduct of 2023 if the insecurity challenges persist in the country. He, therefore, asked the Federal Government to urgently tackle the deteriorating insecurity in the country. The Ondo state governor who condemned the attack on…
Former governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to focus on tackling security challenges and other unending financial issues bedevilling Nigerians rather than receiving political defectors into the ruling APC. Fayose made this known on his verified Twitter handle on Tuesday. Recall that TheInfoStride had reported that President Buhari had received a former house speaker Dimeji Bankole and ex-governor of Ogun state, Otunba Gbenga Danielin state house, Abuja on Monday, a month after the duo defected from the PDP. Fayose in his tweet berated President Buhari over his recent meeting with ex-governor of Ogun…
As the November 6, 2021 governorship election in Anambra State drawing near, some political parties are still unable to attract aspirants into their fold, with some virtually begging politicians to pick their ticket. Of recent, some of the parties, which hitherto had no offices in Awka, have started acquiring offices in anticipation that some of the aspirants in the three big parties who will fall by the wayside, would approach them for a ticket. Apart from the ruling All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and All Progressives Congress, APC, that have many aspirants, most others cannot…
Prof. Tahir Mamman, Chairman, All Progressives Congress’ (APC) Constitution Review Committee, has dismissed insinuations that the party would not be as strong as it is now with the exit of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023. Mamman stated in an interview with journalists on Wednesday, shortly after the APC’s constitution review committee meeting of its Northeast stakeholders held in Gombe. He said it was common knowledge that the APC as a party, had enjoyed the goodwill of President Buhari but expressed optimism that the party would remain in power “for a long time.’’ According to him, President Buhari is concerned about…
A High Court in Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State on Thursday, sentenced a professor of the University of Calabar, Peter Ogban, to three years in prison for announcing false election result during the 2019 general elections. The professor of science who served as the returning officer in the senatorial election in Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial District in 2019, was said to have manipulated results from Oruk Anam and Etim Ekpo Local Government Areas. The prosecutor, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, told the court that Prof Ogban altered the results of the election to favour the All Progressives Congress, APC, against…
Imo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described recent comment by the Chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC) Interim National Caretaker Committee and Extra-Ordination Convention Planning, Mai Mala Buni, as diversionary, volte-face and calculated at the Supreme Court. In a statement issued yesterday in Owerri by Publicity Secretary of the party, Ogu Bundu Nwadike, it said Buni’s comment on Frank Ibezim’s disqualification in the Imo North Senatorial District by-election saga, was inappropriate and unbefitting. “The Imo State PDP’s attention has been drawn to Buni’s sudden outburst at the Supreme Court on the disqualification of Frank Ibezim as APC…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has warned politicians against violence and other acts capable of creating apprehension during this weekend’s Aba North/South Federal Constituency by-election in Abia State. Its National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, who gave the warning yesterday, declared the readiness of the commission for the poll. According to him, violent and unwholesome acts undermine the sovereign rights of the people to clean elections and deprive the constituency of quality representation. He said 498,390 registered voters are expected to cast their ballots at 609 polling units spread across 24 Registration Areas (RAs)…
Olusegun Bamgbose, a chieftain of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, has claimed that key leaders of the two leading political parties, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the All Progressives Congress, APC, are in top secret deal to make it difficult for any Southerner to emerge as presidential candidate under their platforms come 2023. According to him, this is a new dimension as the stakeholders battle for the race to Aso Rock, adding that the recent clampdown on the national leader of the APC, Bola Tinubu and Raji Fashola were part of the plans. “APC, PDP key leaders are…
Senators from the southern part of Nigeria, under the aegis of Southern Senators Forum, on Wednesday, pledged commitment to indivisibility of Nigeria. Addressing a press conference at the National Assembly after the inauguration of the forum’s leadership in Abuja, Senator Bamidele Opeyemi, who emerged Chairman of the group, said, they were aware of the storms blazing through the nation, but they have resolved to manage it in order to keep the nation as one. He said: “Our position is that we have to manage our unity in diversity. “We further look forward to strengthening the leadership of the Senate. We…
The Presidency, on Wednesday, insisted that there is no rift between President Muhammadu Buhari and former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu. Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, said the duo have a very strong commitment to the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Nigerian people. “Recent reports of a rift between the two leaders of our party are false; the handiwork of some media mischief makers”, he stated. Shehu accused the media of creating controversies and provisiding a nexus for naysayers who work behind the scenes planting such stories which are absolutely false. The aide said the administration was aware of pessimists…
A former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has berated the national leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for donating money to victims of the fire disaster which engulfed Katsina Central Market. Tinubu had on Wednesday donated the sum of N50m to victims of the fire disaster which engulfed Katsina Central Market on Monday. The national leader of the APC paid sympathy visits to traders and other victims of the market in the company of the State Governor, Aminu Bello Masari, a report stated. Reacting to the donation, Omokri criticized Tinubu who according to him…
The Governor of Niger State, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello has decried the low level of participation of women in the political process in the state. Bello, who said this in Minna at the Get Involved Leadership Training organized by the Lead Generation Initiative said the state is lacking in achieving gender equality in the political sphere because the women have refused to participate in politics. He explained that the state needs 40% of women in elective offices and as political appointees in the state. Urging women to take part in the political process, the governor noted that, “there are very…
The Governorship Candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Cross River, Barr Eyo Ekpo has condemned the continued labelling of Fulani people as herdsmen, bandits or referring to them by other derogatory names. Speaking with the media via phone Ekpo lamented such name-calling, saying that crimes are committed everywhere including in the south-south and other places. “If you ask me about the state of terrorism kidnapping across the country, the federal and the state governments should come together, real quick before this country dissolves into lawlessness. “And it has nothing to do with Fulanis or Hausas, it is just…