The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has condemned President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, for saying only God can resolve the insecurity challenges in the country. PDP’s spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan said Adesina’s comment has exposed Buhari’s government as completely helpless and incompetent. Adesina had said Nigerians should handover the insecurity issues in the country to God. Reacting, PDP said Adesina’s remark was an admission of Buhari’s failure. A statement by Ologbondiyan said: Buhari administration is “completely helpless and has come to its wits end in governance; a development, which validates the position of majority of Nigerians…
Author: Ifeanyi Nwagboso
A governorship aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ondo State, Chief Olusola Ebiseni has appealed to party leaders and stakeholders in the state to pursue peace and unity among themselves. Ebiseni in a statement in Akure said this is “the only route to the realisation of their individual and collective aspirations. According to him, the party should remain indivisible. He however denied collecting money from Eyitayo Jegede during the 2019 National Assembly primary in which he was an aspirant. Recall that a Senator representing Ondo South in the state, Nicholas Tofowomo had in an interview recently…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has taken Kano State Independent Electoral Commission (KANSIEC) and the Ambassador Aminu Wali faction of the party to Kano High Court for contempt. PDP is charging KANSIEC for attempted impersonation and the use of its logo on the ballot for the Saturday, January 16, 2021 council poll. Similarly, the Kwankwasiyya faction is dragging the Wali faction for violating Justice Taiwo Taiwo’s judgment and parading himself as the PDP leadership. Addressing journalists yesterday in Kano, Chairman of PDP in the state, Alh. Shehu Sagagi, explained that the judgment delivered by the vocation judge of the Federal…
President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has said only God can ensure victory over insecurity. Adesina said most Nigerians have failed to understand that only God can ensure victory in the area of insecurity. He pointed out that Nigerians who refuse to pray for God’s intervention in the area of insecurity are guilty of indirectly prolonging the war against insurgency. The presidential spokesman stated this in an article entitled, ‘The Decent for the Indecent, the Just for the Unjust’. Adesina, however, lamented that rather than pray for troops battling insurgency, Nigerians are wailing. He wrote,…
Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Ashwaju Bola Tinubu, have been asked to drop their ambitions to vie for the presidency of Nigeria in 2023. A body, Pan Nigeria Presidency of Igbo Extraction Coalition, PANPIEC, gave the warning in a statement by its Director of Planning and Strategy, Chief Pat Anyanwu, on Saturday, after a meeting between the Coalition and a northern group, Arewa Power Shift Movement, in Port Harcourt Rivers State. The Coalition noted that power shifting to Igbo land in 2023 will end the wounds of the civil…
Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has predicted that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will win the election in all the 44 local governments of the state as well as the 484 wards judging by the massive turn out he saw at his ward number 008 Ganduje Cikin Gari on Saturday. He stated this after casting his ballot in the ongoing local government election on Saturday at Ganduje town of Dawakin Kudu Local Government Area. “It is highly impressive how people turned out to vote and it is peaceful. This shows that the election was accepted by all the people…
The next cycle of general elections may be a little over two years away but for players in the field of politics, 2023 is as close as the next couple of weeks or months. With eyes on the ball, plotting, scheming and strategising on where and how to position themselves to score self-serving goals; they plan ahead of time, aware that a minute lost may be herculean to regain. Senator Rochas Okorocha, lawmaker representing Imo West on the platform of the All Progressives Congress is an A-lister politician; a man not afraid to let the cat out of the bag…
Governor Zulum says he believes power should shift to other part of the country, but interested party must be ready to negotiate for it. Amid the agitation for Igbo presidency in 2023, Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has advised South-Eastern politicians to negotiate for power rather than expect others to leave it for them. Zulum said this while speaking in Lagos on Friday, January 15, 2021, at the 17th Chief Gani Fawehinmi annual lecture, themed ‘The constitutional history of Nigeria’s dysfunction: Any pathway to indivisibility and common progress?’ The event was organised by the Nigerian Bar Association, Ikeja Branch,…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has insisted that terrorists no longer control any part of Nigeria’s territory. The party advised Nigerians to stop politicising security issues. John Akpan Udo-Edehe, Secretary, APC Caretaker Committee, made the call in a statement on Friday. The scribe noted that apart from attacks on soft targets, Boko Haram and its affiliates had been degraded. Udo-Edehe said efforts of security services, particularly the Armed Forces, to keep the country safe, should be appreciated. “We should rather support their efforts to further degrade the capacity of terrorists and other criminal elements. “We invite Nigerians to rededicate themselves…
President Donald Trump will leave Washington DC on Wednesday morning before President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in, according to Washington Post. The newspaper quoted a senior administration official to have revealed the outgoing President’s plan. Trump had previously announced he would not be at the inauguration of his successor at the U.S. Capitol. Trump not being at Biden’s swearing-in shatters a long lasting tradition in the US. Biden had described the Trump administration as a “dismal failure” while seeking to keep a focus on combating the coronavirus. Biden, who won the November 3 presidential election with over 300 electoral votes…
The developing truth is that the election management manual of the Peoples Democratic Party of (South-West) Nigeria is broken, and, however, must be entirely reproduced with a reviewed philosophy, attitude and grit! As time goes on, we’ve deliberated more on why it seems the party cannot again, earn the trust of the electorate, notwithstanding the embarrassingly poor performance of the ruling All Progressives Congress. Observing from the 2019 elections, to the stand-alone elections, there have been pointers to the fact that the PDP cannot come out victorious on Election Day what excessive gyrations on social media ignorantly make them believe.…
The second Republic lawmaker, Dr Muhammad Junaid, says the administration under President Muhammadu Buhari has failed woefully. According to him, “As regards the statement made by the President concerning security in the country generally and northeast, I think President Muhammadu Buhari is been economical with the truth. “First, I believe within this week, there are three or four attacks. And any leader who can give himself pass mark not to talk of half when the situation on ground is the reverse is not sincere or honest with people of this country. “Nobody likes conflicts, lack of security but it is…
The presidency says every citizen has the right to reside in any part of the country. Following the ultimatum issued to the Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Rev Matthew Hassan Kukah by a Muslim group in Sokoto State, the presidency has urged the group to leave the cleric to practise his faith and politics. The “Muslim Solidarity Forum” had earlier accused Kukah of making “malicious comments” against Islam. The group also asked the cleric to apologise for the allegation or leave Sokoto State. But in a statement signed by Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to then President on Media…
Femi Fani-Kayode, former Aviation Minister, has mocked President Muhammadu Buhari over an incident with pigeons during the Armed Forces Remembrance Day ceremony on Friday. As a sign of peace, the president usually releases some white pigeons from a cage and immediately they fly away. But, this year, the birds refused flying on Friday with most of them sticking to the cage. The incident was greeted with mixed reactions with many Nigerians, attributing the birds’ behaviour to bad luck and the absence of peace and unity in the country. Reacting to the incident, Fani-Kayode, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party,…
Deaconess Emerald Udeakaji, the Special Adviser to Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State has resigned to save her marriage. The SA in a letter to the Governor dated December 30, stated that 100% loyalty to the government is tearing her family apart, and, therefore, resolved to resign to save her family. Udeakaji noted that she had gone back to study her bible which states that “Woman be submissive to your husband.” The letter reads: “I sincerely want to thank His Excellency and her Excellency and the entire Umahi family for the opportunity they gave to me to serve in this…
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to change Nigeria’s Service Chiefs. Wike said it was high time new strategies were deployed to tackle internal insecurity threats. The governor spoke on Friday at the 2021 Armed Forces Remembrance Day in Port Harcourt. He said the military chiefs had done their best and should go. Wike noted that terrorists, bandits, and killer herdsmen were still causing havoc. “The inability to defeat the Boko Haram insurgency despite years of full military engagement shows that all is not well with our approaches and commitments to the battle against the internal…
A chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP), Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has expressed discomfort at the continued lamentations of the Peoples Democratic Party over the recent movement of Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to the All Progressives Congress, APC. In a statement made available to DAILY POST on Friday, Eze restated that it remains within the exclusive reserve of every member of a political party to pitch tent with another political association where his genuine grievances, especially those…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, on Thursday, opened up on the chances of Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, emerging as its presidential candidate in 2023. Ex-Deputy National Publicity Secretary of APC, Yekini Nabena, said Tinubu’s chances are dependent on his alliances with party stakeholders from other zones in the country. Speaking with DAILY POST, Nabena said: “I don’t know or tell how strong Tinubu’s chances are because politics is all about alliance. “It depends on who he is aligning with and his alibi. A tree cannot make a forest, you can be strong in a…
Joe Biden, the President-elect of the United States of America, has appointed Nigerian-born Funmi Olorunnipa Badejo into his cabinet. The President-elect made announcement when he named additional 20 members of the office of the White House counsel. Badejo is a lawyer and an alumna of Berkeley Law College in the US, and served as ethics counsel in the same office toward the end of the President Barrack Obama administration. She, alongside other lawyers of the Office of White House Counsel will be advising the President, the executive office of the president, and the White House staff on legal issues pertaining…
The Court of Appeal, Abuja has dismissed the appeal brought before it by Michael Elokun and two others challenging the election of Yahaya Bello as the Governor of Kogi State. In a unanimous judgment by a three-member panel of Justices of the Court of Appeal, presided over by Justice Steven Adah, on Thursday, the appellate court agreed with the judgment the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho. Justice Adah held in the judgment that the Kogi State governorship election been challenged by the appellants was held in 2015 and the plaintiffs, at the lower court filed…