Towards ensuring hitch-free conduct of its forthcoming local government election in May this year, members of the Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission (OYSIEC) have sought a working collaboration with its counterpart, Osun State Independent Electoral Commission (OSIEC). To that effect, TheInfoStride reports that a high powered delegation led by Chief Kunmi Agboola was at the state headquarters of OSIElC to compare notes and ideas on how to conduct free, fair, credible and acceptable local government polls in Oyo State. Speaking during the visit, Chief Agboola an OYSIEC Commissioner said the visit became imperative considering the huge experience of members of…
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The Vice Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Abia North Senatorial district, of Abia State, Chief Amah Abraham has insisted that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has long been rejected by the people of the state, because of its obvious failure in the leadership of the country. Fielding questions from newsmen in Umuahia on Tuesday, Abraham remarked that elections were determined by performance, adding that with the massive infrastructure ongoing in Aba metropolis, the residents of Aba are happy with the Ikpeazu government and are ready to reciprocate the kindness and benevolence of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu for his party,…
The APC says it can only improve the lives of Nigerians if it stays in power for many more years to come. National caretaker committee Chairman of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) and Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni, says his party’s vision is to remain in power for more than nine terms in office at the center, which equates to 36 years and counting. The APC is seeing through its second term in office at the center which elapses in 2023, after halting the opposition PDP’s 17 years in power in 2015. While inaugurating the party’s 61-member Contact…
Senator Uche Ekwunife formally joined the Anambra State governorship race on Tuesday. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain submitted her nomination form at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja. Ekwunife said it was too late for the PDP to choose a consensus candidate. “I am running to win, I don’t see how consensus arrangement will work,” she declared. The lawmaker expressed her conviction of beating other aspirants. Ekwunife promised to remain in the party if she doesn’t win the ticket for the November 6 election. She pledged to reform the security architecture of the state and to continue to empower…
The former National Chairman of the Action Alliance (AA), Mr Kenneth Udez, was on Tuesday, re-arraigned before an Osogbo Magistrates’ Court over alleged electoral fraud, forgery. Also arraigned alongside Udeze were former National Secretary of the party, Mr James Vernibe and one Ogunmodede Oluwagbemi. Recall that Udeze was arraigned over an alleged to have replaced the name of the duly elected governorship candidate of the party in Osun State with another person during the 2018 governorship election held in the state. Also, Udeze was alleged to have fraudulently altered the documents of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and presented…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has called on the Yobe State Governor, Mala Mai Buni to resign as governor and Interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC. PDP made the call following the pronouncement of the Supreme Court, which found the leadership of the party as “irresponsible and reckless.” The Supreme Court had given the ruling for engaging in unsubstantiated allegations against its justices. However, PDP said the Supreme Court ruling has confirmed that APC is a party of blackmailers and falsehood. In a series of tweets, PDP wrote: “The @OfficialPDPNig has asked Yobe state Governor Mala Mai…
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has said that the 2023 general election may be sabotaged by insecurity if it is not tacked before the election time. Ortom made the assertion on Tuesday while briefing State House correspondents shortly after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The governor was at the Villa to brief the president on the state of security in his state. Ortom who lamented the level of insecurity currently ravaging the country stated that “there will be no 2023 elections in Nigeria if insecurity persists”. The governor insisted that he had done nothing…
Ahead of Anambra State governorship election schedule for November, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been urged to investigate the profile of the aspirants. The Anambra Concern Citizens, which made the call, also told the anti-graft agency to investigate whether the aspirants are involved in no payment of bank loans or defaulted in taxes. The group, in a statement by its Chairman, Paul Okeke, said that the call became imperative as “this is the right time to know the people that want to rule the state.” The group further said it is better to know them now than…
Crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State continues to deepen as stakeholders of the party are on war path with Governor Seyi Makinde, alleging him of trying to cause disunity among members of the party in the state. Stakeholders of the party, at a well-attended meeting, asked the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party to dissolve party executive from ward to state level in order to save the party from extinction in the state. In a communique issued at the end of its meeting, they also rejected the party primaries conducted by state exco, to elect…
The Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari, immediately after the rerun of the 2018 Osun gubernatorial election had stated that the All Progressives Congress (APC) victory was remote controlled. Also, the party is still maintaining that their candidate in the election, Senator Ademola Adeleke was the winner of the 2018 gubernatorial election in the state before the introduction of the inconclusive clause and rerun was done. The PDP Chairman, Sunday Bisi made this known to the media while defending their adoption of Ademola Adeleke as a candidate of the party for…
A former Senior Special Adviser to the Kebbi State Governor and an APC Chieftain, Sahabi Sani Sami has asked the federal government to question all promoters of dialogue with bandits, stressing that the approach is unproductive in dealing with Nigeria’s insecurity. The lawyer, who faulted the calls for amnesty for criminals, explained that as the worst hit by insecurity, Northwestern states must review their carrot and stick approach in tackling the situation. The APC Chieftain in a press statement he signed, criticized Sheikh Gumi for comparing killer bandits in the Northwest to militants in the South-south and asked the federal…
Governor Ikpeazu Okezie has taken a swipe at Senator Orji Uzor Kalu for claiming that the infrastructure currently being executed in Aba is being done by the federal government. Kalu, who represents Abia North at the Senate was accused of deliberately spreading falsehood to sway victory for his younger brother, Mascot even when he truly knows that the federal government was not contributing a dime to the building and rebuilding of the internal roads and other infrastructure being built in Aba. Reacting, Ikpeazu in a tweet on Monday, said that Kalu should not be blamed because he was in prison…
The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Abia State, Rt. Hon. Asiforo Okere has expressed confidence that the party’s candidate, Chief Chimaobi Ebisike would win the forthcoming Aba North and South Federal Constituency by-election. Recall that following the death of Hon. Ossy Prestige who was representing the constituency at the House of Representatives, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, fixed March 27 for the by-election. The deceased who was elected under the umbrella of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), died February 6 in Germany. In a statement forwarded to TheInfoStride on Tuesday, the state’s PDP leader, Okere,…
Former Governor of Ogun State, Gbenga Daniel, has dismissed the assertion in some quarters that the All progressives Congress, APC, was trying to create a one-party state by fishing for members of other political parties. Daniel, who met with President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday, pointed out that when the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was in the same position as APC, the country was not a one party state. He said: “Definitely, any political environment, whether it is multi-party or two party, there will usually be a majority party and the minority party. “So I don’t think that there’s anything new…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday, said it rejected in its entirety, the March 18, 2020 judgment by the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, which ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to issue Certificate of Returns to Sen. Ifeanyi Araraume within 72 hours. This was contained in a statement issued by Kola Ologbondiyan, National Publicity Secretary. The statement reads, “This judgment further heightens our fears that the All Progressives Congress (APC)-controlled Federal Government is bent on using certain officials within our judiciary to suppress the opposition and subvert the will of the people. The statement further reads:…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will resume Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) nationwide in the second quarter of 2021. Wunmi Balogun, INEC Head of ICT, Ibadan, gave the hint at the training of electoral officers and assistants electoral officers of Polling Units (PUs) in Ibadan on Monday. Balogun disclosed that the commission would use INEC Voters Enrolment Devices for the CVR instead of the Direct Data Capturing Machine. Mutiu Agboke, Oyo INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) said the training was to address the challenges faced by voters on access to polling units during elections. “What we are doing is to…
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, received former Gov. Gbenga Daniel of Ogun State and former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole ,who recently defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Chairman, Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the APC, and Governor of Yobe, Mai Mala Buni, accompanied Governors of Jigawa, Badaru Abubakar and Kebbi, Atiku Bagudu, presented Daniel and Bankole to the president. Daniel was governor of Ogun State from 2003 to 2011 while Bankole was Speaker of the House of Representatives (2007–2011), all on the platform…
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo state has said that the people of the state would not support the secession plans being promoted by some Yoruba leaders. Akeredolu said this at the swearing-in of Princess Oladunni Odu, the first female Secretary to the State Government, SSG, since the creation of the state, and four Special Advisers in Akure, the state capital. “l must not fail to comment on the current agitations by some people who express grievances arising from the challenges of nationhood. “The noises generated by seeming inaction or passive indifference on the part of elected and appointed representatives of…
Ninety-four days to the June 26, 2021 primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State, the possibility of producing consensus candidate is being opposed and discouraged by many aspirants as well as top leaders of the party. This emerged just as zoning arrangement has suffered setbacks. Four governorship aspirants who have so far picked expression of interests and nomination forms from the PDP national secretariat are Senator Uche Ekwunife, Obiora Okonkwo, Chris Azugbogu and Witson Udeh and they cut across the three senatorial districts of Anambra State. A member of the PDP’s National Working Committee (NWC), who…
Saraki maintains that if the PDP is given another chance, Nigerians will see the difference. Ex-President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, has called on Nigerians to back the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as it seeks to lead the country again in 2023. The PDP lost a 16-year hold on the center in 2015, following a keenly contested and closely watched presidential race between Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP and Muhammadu Buhari of the APC. Saraki made the remarks while inaugurating DLA Road, adjoining streets, Government Primary School, Junior Staff Quarters, in Asaba on Friday, March 19, 2021. He said that…