Politics
FCT poll: We’ll challenge APC’s victory in 3 area councils – Ayu
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Iyorchia Ayu, yesterday said despite the party’s victory in three area councils during last Saturday’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT) polls, they will challenge the result in three other areas where the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates were declared winners.
Speaking during the commissioning of the Earnest Ikoli Media Complex in Yenagoa on Monday, as part of activities marking Governor Douye Diri’s second term in office, Ayu expressed delight that under his chairmanship, the party has recorded its first victory by winning Abuja Metropolitan, Kuje and Bwari council seats.
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He said the party is determined to challenge the results in Gwagwalada, Abaji and Kwali where APC candidates were declared winners.
Ayu commended governors on the PDP platform for what he described as superlative performance in their respective states, which has given Nigerians confidence to bring PDP back to power at the centre in 2023.
Daily Trust
Politics
BREAKING: LP Re-elects Julius Abure As National Chairman
BREAKING: LP Re-elects Julius Abure As National Chairman
The Labour Party (LP) has re-elected Julius Abure as its National Chairman for a second term in office.
Abure was re-elected by a unanimous affirmation of delegates at the party’s National Convention in Nnewi, Anambra State.
The Chairman of the National Convention and Deputy Governor of Abia State, Ikechukwu Emetu declared him the winner during the event attended by party leaders and members.
More to come…
Politics
El-Rufai set to dump APC, visits Gowon after meeting SDP leaders
El-Rufai set to dump APC, visits Gowon after meeting SDP leaders
There are talks that a former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, may quit the All Progressives Congress (APC) and move to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) for the second time.
The rumour is coming after the APC chieftain had held meetings with SDP leaders.
El-Rufai also visited ex-military Head of State, Yakubu Gowon, at his residence in Abuja on Tuesday.
His second visit to SDP stalwarts on Tuesday has further fueled speculations that the former governor is planning to dump the APC.
El-Rufai lost his bid to become a minister in the President Bola Tinubu as he was screened out by the Senate over a damaging petition written against him.
He was however pictured at the Abuja residence of Senator Abubakar Gada, along with SDP chairman Shehu Musa Gabam and other party leaders.
Also reported to be present at the meeting were Senator Teslim Folarin, APC governorship candidate for Oyo State in the 2023 general elections, and Senator Nazif Suleiman, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party from Bauchi State.
The meeting at Gada’s home in Abuja on Sunday night came after El-Rufai hosted a Ramadan iftar at his Abuja residence.
Those at the Ramadan iftar include the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, Kashim Ibrahim-Imam and Shehu Musa Gabam.
El-Rufai also visited Gabam at the SDP secretariat.
Last Friday, a former spokesperson for the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organisation, Daniel Bwala, said the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 Presidential Election, Peter Obi, was planning to leave the Labour Party and join El-Rufai in the SDP.
Bwala, in a post on his X handle, said Obi was planning to leave the Labour Party following the current crisis in the party with the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) threatening to take over the party.
Obi, a former Governor of Anambra State, joined the Labour Party in May 2023 in the buildup to the 2023 general elections following his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
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Happening now: Senator Idiat Adebule distributes massive palliatives to Lagos West residents (photos)
Happening now: Senator Idiat Adebule distributes massive palliatives to Lagos West residents (photos)
Hundreds of people mostly the poor and members of the All Progressives Congress in the Lagos West Senatorial District are currently gathered at the Ikeja Police College where the senator representing the area, Idiat Adebule, is dolling out palliatives to the downtrodden, among others.
Adebule said 10,000 packs were given out to the vulnerable in the senatorial district.
She listed the items as rice, semovita, beans, pasta garri, vegetable oil and cloths.
Even as she said the package was a tip of the iceberg, stressing that people should expect bigger and better packages, not necessarily food items.
Newstrends captured the event in photos
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