Author: Tobi Oluwaseun Adesanya
A former Deputy National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Bode George, has insisted that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, is not an indigene of Lagos State. Mr George, who stated this on Tuesday during Arise TV Morning Show, insisted that Mr Tinubu has failed to produce any evidence to the contrary, despite many enquiries from Nigerians. He said: “Tinubu is not from Lagos State. You can quote me. If he says he grew up in Isale-Eko, which school did you attend? I grew up on Evans Street in Lagos.35 Evans Street was my grandfather’s house.…
According to Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon of a Federal High Court in Abuja, a human rights organization operating under the aegis of the Incorporated Trustees of Advocacy for Social Right Advancement and Development Initiative, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the APC presidential candidate, never attended the St. Paul Aroloya Primary School in Lagos. The organisation, therefore, said that Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State, should be tried for perjury. Meanwhile, ASRADI has secured an order of the court to bring an application seeking to compel the Inspector-General of Police to investigate Tinubu over allegations bordering on perjury. Justice Olajuwon made the…
The Ogun State Ministry of Youth and Sports has denied the People’s Democratic Party’s request to use the MKO Abiola International Stadium for the rally of its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. The PDP had made the request in a letter to the state Commissioner for Youth and Sports on January 3, 2023, ahead of the rally slated for January 19. In the letter signed by the state secretary, Sunday Solarin, the PDP recalled how an earlier request for the use of the stadium was not obliged by the state government. The letter read in part, “It is pertinent to mention…
*Developing Story* The Labour Party’s presidential campaign has been thrown into disarray as Ndi Kato, the Labour Party’s campaign spokesperson, reveals a corruption scandal on her WhatsApp status. According to Kato, Nenadi Esther Usman, the former finance minister and current Member of the Presidential Campaign Advisory Board of the Labour Party, had allegedly hijacked the N100m set aside for the preparation of Labour Party’s presidential candidate’s visit to Kaduna State. … Details later.
Thursday, US President Joe Biden pledged to promote democracy on a continent where China and Russia have gained clout. He also pledged to support a larger African role in the world. Biden, while announcing $100 million for security, also said the United States would invest $75 million to counteract “democratic backsliding” including by strengthening electoral authorities and civil society. On Wednesday, Biden met jointly with the leaders of six nations that hold elections next year including Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo, sub-Saharan Africa’s largest countries in population and size respectively, to seek promises on free elections. “The United…
On Wednesday, Joe Biden, President of the United States, met with the leaders of African nations that are holding elections in the new year to call for free elections. On the sidelines of a summit that has brought most African leaders to Washington, Biden and his top aides met separately with a group of six leaders as part of his democracy push. The group included Nigerian President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), who is ineligible to seek a third term in February to lead Africa’s most populous country, and President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo who took…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar, has pledged that his administration will ensure that every child has access to education in Nigeria. Atiku stated this in his goodwill message at the 2022 AGM/conference of the Association of Nigerian Universities Professional Administrators (ANUPA) in Port Harcourt yesterday. The former vice president who was represented by Nigeria’s former Ambassador to Canada and Mexico, Prof. Iyorwuese Hagher, sympathised with the association and the parents of all students for the avoidable incalculable harm that has been done to them by the APC administration. He said, “When you compare the PDP and…