Former Borno State Governor, Senator Kashim Shettima, has said that it is too early for the All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders, to talk about which region of the country will be given the party’s presidential slot in 2023. Shettima stated that President Muhammadu Buhari, the APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and other leaders of the APC will resolve the zoning issue in due time. He noted this while speaking during a two-day mid-term retreat held in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital. Shettima appeared alongside the Minister of Works, Babatunde Fashola, and vowed that the ruling party will not disintegrate over…
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senatorial candidate in Saturday’s Lagos East bye-election, Mr Babatunde Gbadamosi, has emerged winner of his Polling Unit in Ikorodu. Gbadamosi polled 22 votes to defeat his closest rival, Mr Tokunbo Abiru, of the All Progressives Congress, who polled 12 votes at Polling Unit 14, Ward 1, Ikorodu, NAN reports. The details of the certified results obtained by NAN showed that three votes were void at the Polling Unit. A total of 37 voters were accredited at the Polling Unit. Gbadamosi, shortly after voting at about 10 am, had decried poor turnout of voters at the…
The Federal Government says being a member of #EndSARS protest is not an immunity from being investigated or charged for any offence or breach of the laws. Minister for Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed says nobody can stop FG from probing #EndSARS protesters. (FMIC) The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated this on Friday in Lagos at a meeting with Title Editors of Nigeria Newspapers. The minister, who was responding to a question on alleged arrest of some #EndSARS protesters and sponsors, said nobody is above investigation or prosecution. “Being a member of #EndSARS protest does not…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Lagos State says 8,553 ad hoc staff have been engaged for Saturday’s Lagos East by-elections. Members of the NYSC as INEC ad-hoc staff at a polling unit in Victoria Island (Pulse) INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, Sam Olumekun, made this disclosure at a news conference on Friday in Lagos. Olumekun, who urged all eligible voters to adhere strictly to COVID-19 protocols, said that the ad hoc staff comprised 1,928 Presiding Officers, 6,348 Assistant Presiding Officers and 193 Supervisory Presiding Officers. According to him, the number also includes 84 Registration Area (Ward) Collation Officers, comprising…
Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council has vowed that the Igbos “will have a rethink” if major political parties fail to cede their 2023 presidential ticket to the South-East. They told the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) not to deny the region, their desire to succeed President Muhamamdu Buhari in 2023. Speaking to reporters in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, the Secretary-General, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, warned those plotting against the zone. “It is our turn. Anybody destabilizing any party because of our interest is making a grave mistake”, Nnabuike warned. On Governor David Umahi’s defection to the APC, he…
Former President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, has said that it is too early to talk about returning to office in 2023. Speculations have been flying about, linking the Bayelsa-born politician to a possible return to the office he left 5 years ago. But the speculations may have to continue as Jonathan could not give a definite position on his rumoured ambition. Speaking briefly with reporters on Friday after attending an event organised by the Commonwealth Community Choir in Abuja, the nation’s capital, Jonathan was asked if he would be joining the presidential race for 2023, and he said, “It is too…
A former member of the Imo State House of Assembly, Hon. Raymond Emeana has called for a bi-partisan method towards realizing a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction in 2023. Emeana said the Igbo presidency project would be realized if leaders of the two leading parties, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) insist on both parties ceding their presidential tickets to the South East. In a statement he issued on Friday, he stated that both parties are at present afraid because they are not sure if any of them would cede the ticket to the North if…
National leader of the All Progressives Congress(APC), Bola Tinubu; the pioneer Interim Chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande; Osun State Governor, Gboyega Oyetola; and the Minister for Interior, Rauf Aregbesola on Thursday met in a closed-door meeting. They met in Akande country home, Ila Orangun, Osun State. A source told TheInfoStride that the quartet meeting was to strategize on the 2023 presidential ambition of Tinubu which looks likely to be shaking. It was gathered that Chief Bisi Akande, a strong supporter of Tinubu had in November left Presidential Villa with anger after spending hours without seeing the President. Akande…
Joe Nworgu, a former Secretary General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has advised politicians to stay away from the body’s January 2021 elections. Nworgu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Awka that article 11 of Ohaneze’s constitution spelt out methods and persons that qualify for President-General and Secretary-General’s positions. The body cedes positions to five South-East states of Abia, Ebonyi, Enugu, Anambra and Imo as well as Igbo speaking parts of Rivers and Delta. Nworgu insisted that the President-General’s position cannot have a sole candidate. He said the constitution stipulates that at least, three persons from a state…
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…
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…