Category: Politics

APC Youth Solidarity Network, a youth group who recently led a protest calling for the resignation of Abdullahi Ganduje as chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress has revealed that they were sponsored.   According to the youth group, they were sponsored by enemies of the party to unseat Ganduje.   Addressing a news conference on Tuesday, Prince Danesi Momoh,National Coordinator of the group, said they were brainwashed by those who are conniving with the opposition New Nigeria Peoples party to destabilize the APC and by extension the administration of…

A coalition of 92 Civil Society Organisations, CSOs under the platform of Centre for Credible Leadership and Citizens Awareness, CCLCA, have sent an SOS to the Federal Government to save democracy in Nigeria.   They also called on the National Judicial Commission, NJC to immediately beam its searchlight Justice Charles Wali of Rivers State High Court for issuing a controversial expate motion despite a subsisting order of a federal High Court.   Director General of CCLCA, Dr Gabriel Nwambu made this disclosure at a press briefing in Abuja on Monday.…

The Speaker of the House of Representatives Rt. Hon. Abbas Tajudeen has called on National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje to constitute reconciliation committees that would unite the members of the party nationwide.   Speaker Abbas noted that some members of the APC were aggrieved, which was why there was a need to reconcile and make peace with them.   Speaking at the APC stakeholders’ meeting for the Northwest in Kaduna on Sunday, the Speaker said such action would bring more successes to the…

A group under the platform of Concerned Rivers Citizens CRC has said one year after, Governor of Rivers State Siminalayi Fubara’s administration has built a castle of litigations and campaigns round the wards nicknamed thanksgiving to show Rivers people as his achievements.   The group in a statement signed by its convener, Emmanuel Chibuzor on Monday asserted that:   “We have watched with keen interest as Rivers State State Governor has been frittering away our allocations on frivolities and criminally enriching himself in the name of being recognized as the…

Some Nigerians in the United States have praised President Bola Tinubu for maintaining neutrality in the ongoing Rivers State crisis between Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his predecessor, Nyesom Wike.   Under the auspices of the Association of Nigerian Professionals in Diaspora (ANProD), the Nigerians said President Tinubu’s refusal to take sides with Wike is healthy for democracy.   In October 2023, President Tinubu intervened in the political feud that had engulfed the state, facilitating the signing of a peace pact agreement by both parties involved.   However, hostilities have continued with…

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, said he was all out to provoke Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State into making mistakes.   Wike made the comment on Saturday in Ogu-Bolo LGA of Rivers at an event to honour George Sekibo, a former senator who has spent 36 years in public service.   Addressing Anorld Davids, a lawmaker representing Ogu-Bolo constituency in the assembly, Wike said: “Let me say this clearly, Arnold, don’t be frightened that anybody would remove you as an assembly member.   “Nobody will…

A group under the aegis of Concerned Rivers Citizens CRC has described the purported election of a new speaker of Rivers State as another mockery of democracy depicting Africa magic series in Nigeria. In a statement issued and signed by the convener of the group Emmanuel Chibuzor late Tuesday night described the move by two lawmakers to elect a speaker as mockery of democracy that should not be taken seriously by any sane Nigerian. The group said”We have read in the social media networks how the two lawmakers visited the…

A major contender in the recently concluded Edo APC Guber primaries ,Senator Oserheimen Osunbor has updated his teeming supporters on latest developments over Senator Monday Okpebholo the state’s gubernatorial candidate in the September 21 election.   In a message he personally signed and tagged: ‘A MESSAGE TO MY SUPPORTERS AND WELL-WISHERS (2)’ Osunbor gave a vivid account of what transpired when Okpebholo visited him on May 2.   Hear him:   Ladies and Gentlemen,   “You will recall that on 1st March 2024, I issued a message to you, in…

The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has been dragged before a High Court of Justice of the Federal Capital Territory over alleged illegal stay in office as party chairman.   Also joined in the suit alongside Ganduje as respondents are APC, National Executive Committee of APC and the National Working Committee of APC   The plaintiff, Mohammed Saidu Etsu, a former national chairmanship aspirant of the, party is praying the court for an, order restraining Ganduje from parading himself as the chairman of the…