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Wike to Ganduje: “You pocket dollars inside babariga from contractors”

Jul 8, 2020Jul 8, 2020 topnews

As the Edo State governorship election draws nearer, political actors and party faithfuls have started mudslinging and names calling to de-market themselves. Two of the political heavy weights that recently threw jibes at each other are the governors of Kano State and his Rivers State counterpart. Kano State Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, the arrow head during of All People’s Congress (APC) campaign in the forthcoming Edo State election, in a media briefing in Abuja, on Monday said, “We know the PDP made Wike their (campaign council) chairman. I assure you;…

Oyo deputy gov lockedout of Ajimobi’s fidau prayer

Jul 6, 2020 topnews

Oyo state’s Deputy Governor, Rauf Olaniyan, was on Sunday, stopped from attending the eighth-day fidau held for the late former governor, Abiola Ajimobi. The deputy was on Sunday denied access into Ajimobi’s house in Oluyole Estate, Ibadan where the fidau prayer, scheduled for 11am, held amid tight security. The family had earlier announced in a statement that the fidau prayer was a private programme. Members of the public were urged to join the programme virtually via Zoom, YouTube and Facebook. Olaniyan, who arrived at the residence at about 11.20 am in a…

Kenya Senators Exchange Blows In Fight Over Committee Post

Jul 2, 2020 topnews

Two nominated senators in Kenya, Beatrice Kwamboka (ODM) and Mary Seneta (Jubilee), engaged in a scuffle before parliamentary security separated them. The scuffle over a post is said to have led to the suspension of the vice-chairperson of the Election of Senate health committee. It was gathered that trouble brewed after Ms Senata accused some members, including Ms Kwamboka of colluding to edge her out of the position. Seneta made the accusation after Narok Senator Ledama ole Kina was declared the winner. The accusation made Kwamboka who is the deputy minority leader angry…

Oshiomhole loyalists dares Buhari, says NEC meeting illegal

Jun 26, 2020 topnews

‌ Members of the All Progressives Congress National Working Committee loyal to the party’s sacked National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, on Thursday, insisted that the APC National Executive Committee meeting attended by President Muhammadu Buhari, was illegal. The NWC members, who said this in a statement signed by the acting National Chairman, Hillard Eta, and the acting National Secretary, Waziri Bulama, stated that they were consulting their lawyers and other stakeholders on the dissolution of the NWC and other decisions taken at the NEC meeting on Thursday. They insisted that the NEC…

Ex-Oyo Governor, Ajimobi is dead

Jun 25, 2020 topnews

Abiola Ajimobi’s, the immediate past Governor of Oyo State, has died at age 70 after battling coronavirus-related symptoms. Ajimobi, who was governor from 2011 to 2019, was named the Acting National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress last week but never resumed. The former governor was hospitalised at First Cardiologist and Cardiovascular Consultants Hospital, Lagos on June 2, 2020. He was said to have tested negative for COVID-19 but the illness had caused his health to deteriorate. Ajimobi’s wife, Florence, had earlier been hospitalised with her husband. She was, however, discharged. He was…

Police Attacks Won’t Stop Mass Exodus To Our Party, PDP Tells APC, IGP

Jun 22, 2020Jun 22, 2020 topnews

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has told the All Progressives Congress, APC and the Nigeria Police to stop fighting a lost battle, saying they can’t stop mass defection of APC members to its fold across the country. Condemning Police attack on the Ondo deputy governor, Agboola Ajayi, the PDP in a statement Sunday, by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan called on the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, to caution his men against dabbling into partisan politics. The deputy governor is having irreconcilable differences with his boss, Governor…

Court restrains Giadom as acting national chairman of APC

Jun 20, 2020 topnews

An order of interim injunction restraining the All Progressives Congress (APC) from recognising or regarding Victor Giadom as acting national chairman of the APC and a member of its National Working Committee (NWC) has been granted by a High Court in Port Harcourt. Two members of APC in Rivers State, Dele Moses and Azunda Wori had filed suit PHC/360/2020 challenging the validity of Giadom’s claim as the acting national chairman of the APC. The defendants are the APC, Adams Oshiomole, Victor Giadom, APC Acting Chairman in Rivers State, Igo Aguma…

APC crisis: Factions continue battle as court affirms Giadom party chair

Jun 19, 2020 topnews

The All Progressives Congress Deputy National Secretary, Victor Giadom, who, on Wednesday, declared himself as the acting national chairman after the Court of Appeal suspended the substantive Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, on Thursday obtained a court order affirming him as the acting chairman. The High Court of Federal Capital Territory, which gave the latest order, also directed Giadom to preside over the party’s National Executive Committee meetings. But the pro-Oshiomhole faction led by Senator Abiola Ajimobi began consultations with the APC stakeholders in the South-South with the aim of replacing Giadom as the…

Appeal court reaffirmes Oshiomhole’s suspension as APC chairman

Jun 16, 2020 topnews

The suspension of Adams Oshiomhole as the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress has been reaffirmed by the Court of Appeal in Abuja. A three-man panel of the court led by Justice Eunice Onyemanam, in a unanimous judgment on Tuesday, affirmed the order of suspension of the APC National Chairman earlier issued by the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Abuja on March 4, 2020. Following an application by Oshiomhole, an earlier three-man panel led by Justice Abubakar Yahaya had earlier lifted the Oshiomhole’s suspension pending the…

You did not recover N7.9 billion from me, Okorocha tells EFCC

Jun 13, 2020 topnews

Rochas Okorocha, former Imo State Governor, has replied the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), saying that the Commission never recovered N7.9 billion or another money from him. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media, Sam Onwuemeodo, yesterday, he maintained that it only seized the account belonging to the Imo State Government at the twilight of his administration in 2019. The Port Harcourt Zonal head of the Commission, Mr. Usman Imam, had on Thursday claimed that the anti-graft agency had seized and recovered the above mentioned amount from…