Politics
BREAKING: LP suspends national chairman Abure for anti-party activities
BREAKING: LP suspends national chairman Abure for anti-party activities
The National Chairman of Labour Party (LP), Julius Abure, has been suspended.
They stated that the suspension was with immediate effect.
It advised Abure to stop holding out or parading himself as a member of the party.
“While the suspension is with immediate effect, you are advised to refrain from holding out or parading yourself as a member of Labour Party, Ward 3, Arue, Uromi, Esan North East Local Government Area of Edo State,” the letter said in part.
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The State Executive Committee led by Kelly Ogbaloi endorsed the decisions of the ward and local government committee of the party on Friday.
Ogbaloi said that the state executive council had no choice but to endorse the suspension which was also ratified by the party’s executive council in Esan North East local government area of the state.
Also, the state deputy chairman of the party, Mr. Patrick Agbontaen, said the party was fed up with the series of allegations of misdemeanour against the embattled national chairman and was fully in agreement with the decision to suspend him until further notice.
The ratification letter reads: “Here forwarded to you and for your consideration is the ratification of the suspension of Julius Abure from the membership of Ward 3, Arue, Uromi, Ean North East LGA, Edo State.
“The LGA Executive met on 15th of May, 2024, about noon, to consider the matters presented on the suspension and accordingly found them weighty and the suspension ratified and upheld.”
BREAKING: LP suspends national chairman Abure for anti-party activities
Politics
Many Ondo APC members dump party for PDP
Many Ondo APC members dump party for PDP
On Wednesday, members of the ruling All Progressives Congress in Ondo State announced their defection to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The defectors, hailing from the state’s 208 wards across its 18 local government areas, declared their readiness to support the PDP candidate, Agboola Ajayi, in the November 16 governorship election.
Ajayi, a former deputy governor of the state, along with the PDP state leadership, welcomed the defectors at the Akure town hall in the state capital on Wednesday.
During the event, Ajayi addressed the new members, highlighting the prevalent suffering, hunger, and anger in the state due to the alleged maladministration of the APC-led government. He promised that, if elected, he would offer a better alternative for the people of Ondo State, and urged the new members to collaborate with existing PDP members to secure a victory in the forthcoming election.
He said, “We are working very hard to regain the state and we need to be strategic about it in order to emerge victorious in the November 2024 election because the people of the state are looking up to us.
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“As new members, I assure you of all rights accrued to the rest of our members. We will ensure that you benefit from every opportunity regarding the welfare of members without sentiments.”
In his remark, the state Chairman of the PDP, Tola Alabere, said the umbrella of the PDP was wide enough to accommodate more new members, assuring the defectors of equal treatment and fairness.
Alabere said, “I am confident that his election will mark a rapid growth in the fortunes of the state and you are welcome to join this moving train as partners to reposition the state towards development.”
Speaking on behalf of the defectors, the former APC organising Secretary in Akure South LG, Akinwande Fayinminu, said they decided to leave the ruling party due to a lack of internal democracy.
“The APC lacks internal democracy, that is why they are factionalised, since they came to power they have not integrated many members of the party. They are operating the party like an occultic group. We can’t stay in such a party any longer,” Fayimimu stated.
Many Ondo APC members dump party for PDP
Politics
Northern politicians wooing Buhari to unseat Tinubu, says Shehu Sani
Northern politicians wooing Buhari to unseat Tinubu, says Shehu Sani
Senator Shehu Sani has alleged that northern politicians are working hard to woo Muhammadu Buhari in a plot to remove President Bola Tinubu from office ahead of 2027 presidential election.
He said the recent visits by the politicians to ex-President Buhari are part of the calculated moves to unseat Tinubu in the 2027 general election.
Indeed, the ex-senator noted that the northern politicians were interested in resurrecting Buhari’s political charm and fanaticism to mobilise the gullible people in the North for a selfish reason.
Newstrends recalls that many top northern politicians have recently visited Buhari in his Daura home, Katsina State.
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and Aminu Tambuwal, ex-governor of Sokoto, visited Buhari on June 22
About 24 hours after, Nasir el-Rufai, an ex-governor of Kaduna, also visited the former president.
In a statement on Monday, Sani said that though the visits were tagged as “Sallah homage,” they had a political undertone.
“The recent visits by some prominent northern politicians to Daura appear to be the usual Eid homage, but looking deeper and beyond the facade, it’s surreptitiously a new attempt to build a strong northern alliance using ex-President Buhari as a rallying point to challenge and evict President Tinubu’s government in 2027,” the statement read.
He also stated, “It’s a regrouping of Northern political forces for the next general election. A project that will eventually kiss the dust.
“They want to resurrect Buhari’s political charm and fanaticism and mobilise the gullible to another hollow and bewildering end.
“They want to stock up and light up the Arewa sentiment without considering the inferno it would eventually generate.”
Sani noted Buhari, a northerner who served as president for eight years, did not make a significant impact on the nation.
“They had power and wasted it. What do they want to do with it again?”
The former senator said, “A southerner is in power just for one year. It’s too early for the desperate and power-hungry northern elite to start plotting.
“The South never did that to Buhari. Their intended action has the capacity of ruining the democratic process and wrecking the fragile unity of the country when the south is awakened to this reality. Their obsession with power is condemnable.
“Opposition to Tinubu from the point of policies, promises and programs of his administration is a democratic right of any Nigerian.
“People have the right to speak and criticize the government. But attempts to whip up Northern sentiments to achieve their political ends is a dangerous political experiment and expedition at this material time.
“No serious southerner challenged Buhari for eight years. These power-drunk Northern politicians are dragging the region to a new political journey through a land mine.
“The Daura homage of the disgruntled and the obsessed will fail. Our people in the North should reject these faces and their plots.
“They have nothing to offer. From the abandoned Baro Port, Ajaokuta, Lake Chad basin refiling and Mambilla hydropower, they failed.”
Politics
PDP expels former Edo deputy governor, Philip Shaibu
PDP expels former Edo deputy governor, Philip Shaibu
Former Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, has been expelled from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Shaibu’s expulsion was announced on Wednesday by the leadership of the Edo chapter of the party.
The national vice chairman (South-South) of the party, Dan Orbih, was also expelled.
The development is contained in a statement issued in Benin by the party’s state publicity secretary, Ogie Vasco.
According to Vasco, Shaibu and Orbih were expelled for anti-party activities, according to PDP.
Vasco said also expelled for the same reason was Omorgie Ihama, a former House of Representatives member, who represented Oredo Federal Constituency.
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He said the decision was taken on Wednesday at a meeting attended by nine members of the state working committee at the party secretariat.
“The SWC has extensively deliberated on the issue and resolved to expel, with immediate effect, Chief Dan Orbih, National Vice Chairman South South.
“It also decided to expel Phillip Shaibu and upheld the expulsion of Ogbeide-Ihama from Ward 2, Oredo Local Government Area,” he said.
Reacting, Orbih told journalists that the body is not empowered to suspend a member of the national working committee or expel anybody without following the provision of the party’s constitution.
“When a group of persons sits down to make pronouncement that are unconstitutional it only showed that they are ignorant of the constitution of the party.
“That is all I have to say about that and nothing more,” Mr Orbih told journalists.
PDP expels former Edo deputy governor, Philip Shaibu
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