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Friday, 31 May 2019 04:26

APC crisis: Plot for Oshiomhole’s removal thickens

The days of Mr Adams Oshiomhole as National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) seem to be numbered as forum of Non-National Working Committee (Non-NWC) has demanded an emergency meeting with the party’s national leadership. A leaked letter signed by the forum’s Chairman, Mr Nasiru Danu, and Secretary, Omolayo Akintola, dated May 29, 2019, titled: “Demand for an urgent interface with NWC organ of our party-APC” and addressed to the national chairman, read that the meeting is ‘principally to address critical issues affecting our great party before such issues go out of hands which could be inimical to the general…

Thursday, 30 May 2019 05:03

Israel to hold fresh election as Netanyahu fails to form coalition

Israeli lawmakers have voted to dissolve parliament after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a coalition government. The vote triggered a fresh election, which will be held on 17 September. Mr Netanyahu was unable to reach a deal for a fresh right-wing coalition following last month's election. At the heart of the impasse was a military conscription bill governing exemptions for ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students. It is the first time in Israel's history that a prime minister-designate has failed to form a coalition. Parliament voted 74-45 in favour of dissolving itself after Mr Netanyahu missed a midnight local time…

Wednesday, 29 May 2019 04:52

Fresh crisis in APC as deputy chair tells Oshiomhole to resign

Fresh crisis, yesterday, hit ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, as Deputy National Chairman of the party, North, Mr Lawali Shuaibu, asked National Chairman, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, to resign, following last Friday’s Supreme Court judgment in favour of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Zamfara State. APC, due to faulty primaries, lost all the positions it won at the last general elections in the state, including governorship, National Assembly and State Assembly seats as a result of Supreme Court judgment. In a six-page letter to Oshiomhole, dated May 27, 2019, Shuaibu held that in advanced democracies, people who failed to add value…

Tuesday, 28 May 2019 05:25

Buhari attacks Saraki, Dogara, says they are ‘very low on patriotism’

President Muhammadu Buhari Monday rated Senate President Bukola Saraki and Speaker Yakubu Dogara ‘very low’ on patriotism with regards to handling of Appropriation bill. Mr Buhari who spoke during a TV interview Monday night said the two presiding officers of the two chambers of the National Assembly held the nation to ransom by delaying the budget for seven months. “To hold a budget for seven months cannot be justified if you really bother about the country,” the President said. He said that he once asked the two presiding officers how they felt delaying the budget for that long. “I think…

Tuesday, 28 May 2019 05:22

Jonathan rates 2019 elections low, says ‘we shouldn’t have a repeat in 2023’

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said the country should modify its electoral laws to avoid a repeat of 2019 polls in 2023. He also said an individual shouldn’t have the power to appoint all members of election tribunals. Mr Jonathan, who said these during a lecture/book presentation to mark the second term inauguration of Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike in Port Harcourt on Monday, added that allowing one person to constitute the tribunals would erode confidence in the system. He said, “The judicial process where one person constitutes all the election tribunals to hear petitions is not right. It is…

Monday, 27 May 2019 04:27

We’re vindicated by Aisha Buhari that Buhari’s corruption fight is a ruse - PDP

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Sunday said revelation of fraud in the N500 billion Social Investment Programme, SIP, by wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari and the N16 billion Mosquito Net Project of the Muhammadu Buhari administration, has further vindicated its stance that the administration is deceitful and only pretending to be fighting corruption. This is even as the party noted that Aisha’s revelation has further shown that it (PDP) has not been crying wolf by insisting that President Muhammadu Buhari must account for the trillions of naira allegedly stolen under his watch in the last four years. In a…

Sunday, 26 May 2019 05:09

Again, Aisha Buhari criticises various FG’s programmes headed by husband

President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife, Aisha, has rubbished the N500 billion Social Investment Programme of her husband’s administration, saying that it failed “woefully” in the North in particular. Aisha, who hails from Adamawa State, said the situation in her home state, as far as the implementation was concerned, was pathetic. She also cited Kano, a highly-populated northern state, as another example where she believed the programme failed, despite the huge funds Federal Government budgeted for it. SIP is domiciled in the Office of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, but its direct implementation is done by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Social…

Sunday, 26 May 2019 05:08

Here’s how INEC decided to declare PDP candidate winner of Zamfara gov election

Independent National Electoral Commission on Saturday complied with the judgment of the Supreme Court and declared governorship candidate of Peoples Democratic Party in Zamfara State, Mr Bello Matawalle and others winners of 2019 general election. The commission also warned political parties to be conversant with the implications of the Supreme Court judgment in the case of Zamfara State. INEC chairman, Mr Mahmood Yakubu appealed to political parties intending to field candidates in the November 9 governorship elections in Bayelsa and Kogi States to adhere strictly to the timetable and schedule of activities for the 2019 Bayelsa and Kogi State governorship…

Sunday, 26 May 2019 05:06

We’ll give Obaseki the ‘Ambode treatment’ in Edo - APC chieftain

Mr Henry Idahagbon, a lawyer and a prominent leader of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo state, is the immediate past Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in Edo State. The top ranking APC leader was among those that fought to ensure that Mr Godwin Obaseki succeeded Mr Adams Oshiomhole as the state governor, but today, that romance has gone with the winds following struggle for the 2020 gubernatorial race. In this interview, he spoke on why party leaders across the three senatorial zones are opposed to Obaseki’s second term ambition. Excerpts… 2020 governorship election is fast approaching in Edo, and…

Sunday, 26 May 2019 04:57

51 APC Senators, 191 Reps have signed to elect Lawan, Gbajabiamila, say Buhari, others

Daniel Agbolade, Ibadan Chances of Messers Ahmed Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila to emerge Senate President and Speaker of House of Representatives, got a major boost on Saturday, as a Senator and a House of Representatives' member-elect, Fatai Buhari and Musiliudeen Akinremi respectively, reeled out figures of members supporting them. Buhari while fielding questions from journalists on a live radio programme in Ibadan, said 51 out of the 66 Senators elected on the platform of All Progressives Congress, have signed an endorsement list and pledged to vote for Lawan, representing Yobe North senatorial district. Also Akinremi, who hosted some members of…

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Saturday, 25 May 2019 04:36

Aisha Buhari shares video on presidents surrounding themselves with ‘bad people’

Mrs Aisha Buhari has shared a video on why presidents should listen to advice and not surround themselves with people telling them “what they want to hear”. Wife of President Muhammadu Buhari took to Twitter on Friday to share the video of Mr Julius Malema, an influential South African politician, advising President Cyril Ramaphosa against “prisoners”. In the video, Malema told Mr Ramaphosa, who has just been reelected, to avoid people who “thrive through patronising presidents”. He said: “We hope that you will be a president of a country free government. There are people who thrive through patronising presidents. “They…

Saturday, 25 May 2019 04:35

It’s sad day for us, very sad day, APC laments Supreme Court Zamfara ruling

All Progressives Congress (APC) has reacted to Supreme Court ruling on 2019 general elections conducted in Zamfara State, describing it as a sad day for the ruling party, just as it said that it has accepted the judgement. Shortly after the Supreme Court judgement in Abuja yesterday, APC National Working Committee (NWC) convened an emergency meeting to deliberate on the ruling. Although the ruling party national leadership did not officially brief newsmen after the emergency meeting that lasted several hours, APC Deputy National Chairman South-south, Mr Hillad Eta, described the ruling as a sad day for the party. “It’s a…

Saturday, 25 May 2019 04:34

End of road for Eleka as Supreme Court upholds Fayemi’s election

Supreme Court has upheld election of Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State. In a unanimous judgment yesterday, a five-man panel of the court dismissed appeal filed by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate in the last governorship election in Ekiti, Mr Kolapo Olusola Eleka. PDP and Eleka had appealed the judgment of Court of Appeal, which upheld the decision of Mr Suleiman Belgore-led election tribunal, which held that Mr Fayemi was validly elected. In the lead judgment by Mr John Okoro, the court held that the appeal was unmeritorious and proceeded to uphold an earlier judgment by Court of…

Friday, 24 May 2019 11:02

PDP candidates win by default as Supreme Court nullifies APC candidates’ elections in Zamfara

Supreme Court on Friday nullified the elections of all candidates of All Progressives Congress in Zamfara State in the 2019 general elections. Delivering a unanimous judgment of the five-man panel led by Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Mr Tanko Muhammad, the apex court declared first runners-up in the 2019 general elections in the state as winners of all the posts earlier declared to have been won by APC and its candidates. Mr Paul Galinje, who read the lead judgment upheld the decision of Sokoto Division of Court of Appeal to the effect that APC did not conduct any valid primary…

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