Mr Uche Secondus, National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Wednesday, commissioned developmental projects executed by the administration of Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto state. Speaking at the ceremony in Sokoto, Secondus lauded Tambuwal for striving hard to execute the projects, in spite of limited resources. He said that the execution of the projects has demonstrated the commitment of the governor towards fulfilling his campaign promises to the people. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that some of the projects included rural water supply scheme, teaching hospital, diagnostic centre and roads. Secondus said that the provision of…
Author: Ifeanyi Nwagboso
The December 5, 2020 Lagos East bye-election continues to generate negative impact within the Lagos chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The party’s senatorial candidate, Mr. Babatunde Gbadamosi, lost to Senator Tokunbo Abiru, candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), who was declared winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The loss led to the the controversial suspension of the state’s chairman, Mr. Adedeji Doherty, last Friday. The Secretary, Mr. Muiz Shodipe and the Publicity Secretary, Mr. Taofik Gani, alleged that the chairman is guilty of financial mismanagement and anti-party activities. Doherty’s suspension followed a vote of no…
The recent foundation laid by the national leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to reconcile aggrieved members in Taraba State and also woo new members from other parties has begun to yield positive results. The party is now perfecting plans to receive decampees from opposition parties. It would be recalled that a member of the party’s national Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (NCECPC), Professor Mohammed Tahir, had earlier visited the state to engage aggrieved members in a roundtable. He urged them to beat the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the next election. PDP has presided over the affairs of the…
The serving overseer of Citadel Global Community Church, formerly known as Latter Rain Assembly (LRA), Pastor Tunde Bakare, has said the National Leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, used his political dexterity to win elections for the party in 2015 and 2019. Bakare stated this while speaking at the church’s recently unveiled Citadel in Lagos. According to him, God does not need anyone’s permission to put Tinubu in His hall of fame. The fiery cleric likened Tinubu to Jephthah in the Bible, who delivered his people despite the circumstances of his birth. “Hear me loud and…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday presided over the 29th virtual Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa, Abuja. Physically present at the meeting which is expected to be the last council meeting in 2020 were Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Boss Mustapha and the National Security Adviser, NSA, Major General Babagana Monguno (retd). Also present at the Council Chamber were 12 Ministers, Alhaji Lai Mohammed (Information and Culture), Abubakar Malami, (Attorney General of the Federation, AGF and Minister of Justice), Mr Babatunde Fashola (Works and Housing), Hadi Sirika (Aviation),…
Former Whip of the Nigerian Senate, Sir Roland Owie, yesterday, called on former governor of Lagos State and national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to forget his 2023 presidential ambition positing that in the event that the major political parties agree to zone the presidency to the southern part of Nigeria, it would be turn of the south-east to produce the next president of Nigeria. Owie while speaking on the emergence of a group, Justice and Peace Forum in Nigeria (JPFN) which he said would be launched early next year said but in his opinion…
The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Anambra State has warned officers of the party at all levels not to campaign for any governorship aspirant for the 2021 election in the state, warning that officers who flout the directive stood the risk of being sanctioned. The state chairman of PDP, Chief Ndubuisi Nwobu, who handed the warning at the party’s state secretariat in Awka while welcoming a governorship aspirant, Mr. Wilson Ude, said the campaign for PDP candidate would commence fully once the party’s flag bearer was known. He said: “For now, we should see all aspirants as…
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, Wednesday, effected a minor reshuffle of his cabinet and also created a new Ministry of Industry and Cooperatives. The Governor who announced the shake up in Makurdi also assigned portfolios to two newly appointed Commissioners who two days ago took the oath of office and allegiance. According to Governor Ortom, the two newly appointed Commissioners, Comrade Ojotu Ojema took over from Mrs. Ladi Ajene-Isegbe at the Ministry of Youth and Sports as Commissioner while Dr. Joseph Ngea took charge of the Ministry of Health and Human Services following the demise of his predecessor, Dr.…
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has challenged the Nigeria Governors Forum to stop mincing words and speak against the heightened insecurity in the country. Governor Wike said this during the commissioning of the Obagi-Woji Street in GRA, Port Harcourt. The Governor, who said his administration is committed to developing the state, added that it was wrong for the Governors forum to sit on the fence in a matter that is ravaging the country. “Everything has collapsed in the country. Security has collapsed, the economy has collapsed, there is nothing working in Nigeria. “People should know that we are not just…
The fight over the soul of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the South West between the former governor of Ekiti state, Ayodele Fayose, and the governor of Oyo state, Seyi Makinde, has torn apart the Ondo state chapter of the party. A statement by the state party’s publicity secretary, Kennedy Peretei, announced the indefinite suspension of a former party state chairman, Hon. Ebenezer Alabi; former party state secretary, Chief Oyedele Ibini; a former national assembly member, Hon. Lad Ojomo; former Zonal publicity secretary of the party in the south west, Mr Ayo Fadaka; and the minority leader in the…
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Barrow had on December 3 met with Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, where the two leaders engaged in bilateral talks. The 53-year old Gambian leader later told State House correspondents that his country still needed Nigeria’s stabilising support. “Things would have been very difficult for us without the invaluable support you gave,” Barrow said. Meanwhile, in a brief interview with State House correspondents at the end of the closed door meeting, Jonathan said he briefed Buhari about the outcome of his mission to the Gambian capital Banjul. Jonathan, who is the…
Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the South-South, has described a former Rivers South East Senator, Magnus Abe and Igo Aguma, a former member of the House of Representatives, as political clowns over the purported suspension of the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, from the party. According to Eze, this particular action exposed Abe, Aguma as desperados, shameless, unrepentant and acute opposition elements who are commissioned to destabilize the party in Rivers State. Eze, a former spokesman of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP, also recommended Abe and Aguma to the Actors Guild…
Former Kano Governor, Engr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has explained why Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje dethroned Muhammad Sanusi II as Emir of Kano. He told Ganduje, “you dethroned him for your inferiority complex against him, nothing more.” Senator Kwankwaso noted in a press statement signed by his Principal Private Secretary, Muhammad Inuwa Ali on Tuesday, that “the fears of high esteem and caliber, plus influence the Emir possesses made Ganduje jittery and insisted on dethroning him.” Kwankwaso said; “We know that Ganduje always feels diminished and inferior in the presence of the Emir, and we know that Gov Ganduje harbours a…
Olusegun Bamgbose, a chieftain of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, has called on the National Assembly to amend the Constitution to provide for the recall of the President by those who voted for him. According to the frontline lawyer, considering the spate of insecurity in the country, and the lackadaisical attitude of the government to nip it in the bud, it had become necessary and imperative to amend the Constitution. In a chat with TheInfoStride on Tuesday, Bamgbose noted that if the Constitution provided for the recall of any member of the National Assembly, same should be extended to…
South-East political pressure group, the Zikist-Buharist Movement, ZBM, has reprimanded the National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr Uche Secondus, for asking President Muhammadu Buhari to resign over the high spate of insecurity in Nigeria. The group said it was in league with the frustration over insecurity in the country, but that Secondus and his party recall when PDP’s rule simulated the material conditions that unleashed insecurity on Nigerians. In a statement in Enugu, the group’s Chairman, Stanley Ohajuruka and Secretary, Godwin Onwusi, respectively noted that President Buhari was concerned over the insecurity in the country, which the more…
Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the last governorship election in Ondo State, Eyitayo Jegede said that governor Rotimi Akeredolu and the All Progressive Congress are jittery that they would lose at the election petition tribunal Jegede who spoke in Akure at the inauguration of the party secretariat razed during the last # EndSARS protest in the state. The new Party secretariat was singlehandedly built by one of the party governorship aspirants, Godday Erewa. Jegede expressed assurance that he would become the governor of the state. He said that “all evidence before the election petition tribunal were enough to…
The factional chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo State, Daniel Nwafor has insisted that his leadership remains legitimate in the state, especially with a pending court judgement from a competent jurisdiction. The dissolution as announced by the National Caretaker Committee, according to him, has no effect in Imo State. This, he said, is because the matter is currently in the Supreme Court, where it was taken by the APC National body after being defeated at the court of Appeal. He continued, “We call on the Governor Mai Mala Buni led National Caretaker Committee to lead NY example…
The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State under the Chairmanship of Hon. Kehinde Odebunmi has dissociated the party from the statement credited to the former Governor Ayo Fayose’s faction, attacking Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State. The party expressed displeasure over what it described as destabilisation tendencies of the former Governor, saying it was necessary for Fayose to acknowledge the fact that the party is not his private business where he gives orders to the Party’s Exco to attack his perceived enemies. In a statement made available to newsmen in Ado-Ekiti, the State Publicity Secretary of the…
President Muhammadu Buhari has assured that his administration will give robust support to the Republic of Niger, which holds presidential and national assembly elections later this month. The President spoke on Tuesday at State House, Abuja, while receiving in audience former Vice President Namadi Sambo, who heads ECOWAS Election Mission to the West African country. He applauded President Mahamadou Issoufou, for not attempting to tamper with the Constitution of his country to elongate his stay in power, after serving for the maximum two terms. “I come from Daura, a few kilometres to the Republic of Niger, so I should know…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has flagged off campaigns for the forthcoming local council elections scheduled for 19 December 2020. The mega event which took place in Pantami Township Stadium was attended by APC stalwarts in the state. 11 candidates vying for the position of chairman and 114 councillorship candidates across the local government areas were presented the APC flag. Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya who was represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Professor Ibrahim Abubakar Njodi, urged Gombe people to vote for the APC in the council polls. He assured his administration’s determination to continue to work for…