POLITICS

Sunday, 21 April 2019 04:06

Oshiomhole vs Obaseki: Inside story of the cold war between the godfather and godson

Edo State is one of the states in the country where the politics has always attracted the attention of the nation due to the fact that the players are politically sophisticated. Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ruled in the state during the leadership of late Mr Tony Anenih until November 12, 2008, when the former labour leader, Mr Adams Oshiomhole emerged governor after Appeal Court sitting in Benin declared him the authentic winner of the April governorship election in the state and that saw the end of the PDP era in the state. Oshiomhole, brought the Action Congress which later became…

Saturday, 20 April 2019 06:14

APC suspends Akeredolu for anti-party activities

National Working Committee of ruling All Progressives Congress has suspended Ondo State Governor, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu, for anti-party activities. The party’s NWC had on March 1 resolved to issue a query to the governor over what it described as glaring anti-party activities. In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Lanre Isa-Onilu, after a meeting presided over by national chairman, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, the party said the governor’s anti-party activities “greatly affected the fortunes of its candidates in the recently conducted presidential and National Assembly elections in the state.” Isa-Onilu confirmed that the query had been sent to Akeredolu based…

Saturday, 20 April 2019 06:13

Why restructuring won’t work in Nigeria – Sanusi

Emir of Kano, Mr Muhammadu Sanusi II, has said the unending calls for restructuring and its practice would not work in Nigeria, because it is one of the fault lines being manipulated and exploited by some political elite for their selfish interests. He spoke yesterday at the 9th Triennial National Conference/Merit Award of the Ansar-Ud-Deen Society of Nigeria (ADSN) with the theme: “Justice, Equity and Peaceful Coexistence: Ideas and Reality in a Multi-Religious Nation” in Abuja. The emir, represented by a senior lecturer in Islamic Studies at Bayero University Kano (BUK), Mr Bashir Aliyu Umar, said elites’ manipulation of the…

Thursday, 18 April 2019 06:44

PDP NWC meets serving, elected N’Assembly members

National Working Committee (NWC) of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) last night met with serving and newly-elected lawmakers ahead of inauguration of members of the 9th National Assembly. The meeting came 48 hours after ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) adopted Mr Ahmed Lawan, and Mr Femi Gbajabiamila as the next Senate President, and Speaker of House of Representatives, respectively. The meeting, held behind closed-doors at Lagos/Osun Hall, Transcorp Hilton, Abuja, had in attendance, all serving and newly-elected lawmakers who are members of PDP. The meeting had in attendance PDP National Chairman, Mr Uche Secondus; Senate President, Mr Bukola Saraki; Speaker House…

Wednesday, 17 April 2019 05:04

Atiku cites IP address of ‘INEC server’, as he promises to call Microsoft, IBM experts as witnesses

Presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party in the last election, Mr Atiku Abubakar, is set to call Microsoft, IBM and Oracle experts to authenticate his claim that the servers belonging to Independent National Electoral Commission showed that he defeated President Muhammadu Buhari by over 1.6 million votes. Atiku also identified the server where the results are kept as INEC_PRES_RSLT_SRV2019 and its unique Mac address as 94-57-A5-DC-64-B9 with Microsoft Product ID 00252-70000-0000-AA535. The PDP candidate said this in fresh response to the reply of INEC to his petition. Atiku and PDP will also be expected to tender INEC’s training manual on…

Wednesday, 17 April 2019 05:03

No PDP lawmaker will chair any N’Assembly committee - Oshiomhole

Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr Adams Oshiomhole last night said that the party will not share Committee Chairmanship with the opposition party in the ninth National Assembly. This is as Oshiomhole has presented current Majority Leader of the House, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila as the adopted candidate of the party for the speakership position. Mr Abdulmumini Jibrin, Gbajabiamila Campaign Director, confirmed to newsmen that he (Gbajabiamila) was presented to President Muhammadu Buhari. But a source at the meeting said, Mr Buhari declined to make comment on Gbajabiamila. According to the source, Mr Ahmed Wase (APC, Plateau) stood up after…

Wednesday, 17 April 2019 05:02

APC adopts Gbajabiamila for Speaker

All Progressives Congress (APC) has adopted Mr Femi Gbajabiamila as its candidate for the position of Speaker of House of Representatives in the 9th National Assembly. APC National Publicity Secretary, Mr Lanre Issa-Onilu, in a terse message posted on the party’s WhatsApp platform on Tuesday night said the position was reached after an intensive deliberation with the APC’s House of Representatives members-elect at a dinner with President Muhammadu Buhari at Banquet Hall of Aso Villa. Issa-Onilu said Deputy Speaker position had been zoned to North Central. Daily Trust

Sunday, 14 April 2019 04:01

INEC accuses Atiku of spreading fake election results

Claims by Mr Atiku Abubakar that he won the February 23 presidential election with 18,356,732 votes are nothing short of an invention, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared. The Commission also says it never transmitted results of the presidential election through any server and any figures purportedly obtained thereof are fake. It disowns the website, factsdontlie.com, which Atiku alleged before Presidential Election Petition Tribunal as the source of the election results he claimed to have won. Responding to Atiku’s petition point by point, the commission said that contrary to claim by PDP and Abubakar, it owns no server and…

Saturday, 13 April 2019 04:50

Atiku not a Nigerian, APC tells Election Tribunal

All Progressives Congress has said that Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate in 2019 presidential election, Mr Atiku Abubakar, is not a citizen of Nigeria by birth and ought not to have been allowed in the first place to contest the election. APC said this in response to the election petition filed before Presidential Election Petition Tribunal by Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Abubakar. APC, third respondent to the petition, faulted the grounds of the petition, adding that Atiku “is not a citizen of Nigeria by birth and ought not to have even been allowed in the first place to…

Saturday, 13 April 2019 04:49

APC’s claim on my citizenship idiotic – Atiku

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate for 2019 polls, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has dismissed the petition by All Progressives Congress (APC) contesting his citizenship as “idiotic”. Mr Abubakar, who spoke through his media aide, Mr Paul Ibe, said it is an insult to Nigerians and the office of Vice President, which he occupied for eight years, for APC to allege that he is not a Nigerian. He said everything must not be about politics. According to him, “that is idiotic. It is idiotic. And it is ridiculous. Abubakar is a former Vice President of Nigeria. Are they telling…

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Friday, 12 April 2019 04:37

Sudan leader’s iron grip finally slips amid protests

He was the world’s only sitting head of state wanted for genocide. He lost a third of his country, a quarter of its population and most of its oil resources when South Sudan broke away. Yet Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir, who came to power in a military coup in 1989, was able to keep his grip on power for 30 years in what proved to be one of Sudan’s most brutal chapters. It was not until months of popular protests erupted against him that the 75-year-old president finally lost the support of his military commanders, who arrested and deposed him Thursday.…

Friday, 12 April 2019 04:36

Sudan coup: Protesters defy curfew after military ousts Bashir

Large crowds have remained on the streets of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, ignoring a night-time curfew declared by the country's new military council. Long-time President Omar al-Bashir was overthrown and arrested on Thursday after months of street protests. But demonstrators say the military council is part of the same regime. The fresh stand-off has raised fears of a violent confrontation between protesters and the army. There is also a real danger that different elements of the security forces and militia could turn their guns on each other. The UN and African Union have both issued calls for calm. A mood…

Thursday, 11 April 2019 04:30

INEC indicts ad hoc workers, politicians, others for electoral malpractices

Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, Mr Mahmood Yakubu, on Wednesday said that some wealthy politicians bought over some of the commission’s ad hoc workers and agents of other political parties to compromise the last general elections. He also alleged that politicians compromised traditional and religious leaders as well as community heads to persuade voters in their domains to vote in a particular way. Yakubu made the allegations on Wednesday in Abuja at the Forum of Anti-corruption Situation Room, a programme organised by Human and Environmental Development Agenda. Also at the HEDA event were acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr Mohammed…

Thursday, 11 April 2019 04:29

Nigerians can’t complain of bad governance after selling their votes – Ex-Gov

A former governor of Delta State, Mr Emmanuel Uduaghan, has weighed in on the issue of vote-buying in Nigeria’s political process, saying the people tend to lose when they sell their votes to politicians during elections. Uduaghan acknowledged that the just concluded general election in Nigeria was characterised by vote buying. “When a people are bought with money, then they lose the right to complain,” Uduaghan said on Tuesday in a lecture he presented at University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State. The people must “bear considerable responsibility” as far as vote-buying is concerned, Uduaghan said. Uduaghan said the federal government…

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