Category: Politics

In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, in Abuja on Tuesday, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has prayed that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) resolved its leadership crisis soon to enable it take up responsibility as a viable opposition. The party said there was need for PDP to be vibrant to provide the critical opposition. It said, “we pray for them to put their house in order soon because we believe that democracy is better served when the opposition is alive. “However, we also know the…

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Attempt by the Ogun State government to demolish an ongoing borehole project in Ilugoke community in Iperu Remo, Ikenne Local Government community yesterday was resisted by residents of the community. The Federal Government Constituency intervention borehole project being constructed at the Community was facilitated by the Chairman of House Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, Honourable Oladipupo Adebutu. Mr Wale Oshinowo, Ogun State Commissioner for Finance, who incidentally is an indigene of the community had led some hoodlums to the site in an attempt to demolish the project on the…

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The Court of Appeal sitting in Port Harcourt yesterday has sacked the Senator Ahmed Makarfi led National Caretaker Committee which enjoys the support of the mainstream of the party and its organs. The Appellate Court by a 2-1 majority affirmed that the party offended its own constitution in the way and manner it sacked the Senator Ali Modu Sheriff led executive and in the disobedience of court orders against the holding of the May 21 Port- Harcourt Convention. The court asked that the party should return to the status quo.…

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His ambition to become Nigerian president has been disclosed by the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose. Fayose who is the chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum, was not specific on when he will contest for the office of president. “It is according to God’s will that I will one day become the president of Nigeria,” he said. Although Fayose did not give a timeline for the realisation of his presidential ambition, his declaration will influence the politics of the 2019 presidency. His interventions in his political party…

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Suspended Speaker of Ondo State House of Assembly, on Tuesday said she did not misappropriate N15 million as alleged by some of her colleagues. Akindele, who was reportedly suspended on Friday by 14 lawmakers, said in a statement in Akure that although she was a signatory to the House schedule, she was not a signatory to the cheques. “I wish to place it on record that though I am the signatory to the schedule, I am not a signatory to the cheques of the House. “I did sign the schedule…

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The Nigerian Senate has affirmed the replacement of Senator Ali Ndume with Senator Ahmad Lawan, a former rival of Senator Bukola Saraki. The move, it was gathered, was to bring peace between the APC leadership in the Senate, the executive branch and the APC national leadership. The triangular relationship had been ruptured by the insistence of Senator Saraki and the APC caucus in retaining Ndume as party leader against the party’s preference for Lawan. Ndume was caught off guard by the action of his colleagues on the first day after…

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African leaders are to meet in Ghana to take a decision on the political conundrum in The Gambia. Senior Special Assistant to President Mohammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, disclosed this to newsmen yesterday in Abuja. Shehu said the meeting of the African leaders would hold in Accra, Ghana after the inauguration of the country’s President-elect, Nana Akufo-Addo.He said the meeting was critical to the resolution of the impasse in that country. He said: “President Buhari and other African leaders will on Saturday (today) be attending the inauguration…

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Comrade Osakpanwa Eriyo, the Edo State Youth leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and another chieftain of the party, Sunday Osagbona, were yesterday arraigned before the Oredo Magistrate Court Benin City for alleged conspiracy and attempted murder against the state Secretary of the party and Obazulu of Benin Kingdom, Chief Osaro Idah. Eriyo who is also the state chairman of the Road Transport Employers Association (RTEAN), has been in police detention in the past three days following a petition by Chief Idah that Eriyo and others threatened to kill…

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Ayodele Fayose, Ekiti State Governor, has accused the Department of State Service (DSS) of recording telephone conversations of Nigerians perceived as critical of President Muhammadu Buhari’s All Progressives Congress (APC) administration, editing the chats and leaking same to an online medium (name withheld), which he said has now become the official propaganda platform of the federal government. Fayose, who said he was not bothered remarked; “Rather than sitting down and be monitoring peoples phones, the federal government should provide food for Nigerians and save the lives of those that are…

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