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Tsunami at Kaduna House of Assembly! *Half of members now with us – LP

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Labour Party (LP), is said to be harvesting a political tsunami currently sweeping across Kaduna State, with the state House of Assembly, now reportedly divided down the middle and members moving in droves into the new platform, from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), which had hitherto maintained a vice grip on the entire state since 2015.

For starters, Isaac Auta Zankai, Deputy Speaker, and the lawmaker representing Kauru state constituency at the Assembly, is said to have led the way into LP, taking along with him,  Suleiman Dabo, from Zaria constituency.

Umar Farouk Ibrahim, National Secretary of the party and Chairman of the governorship Council, who made the announcement while inaugurating the party’s 450-member Governorship Campaign Council and the unveiling of its manifesto in Kaduna on Thursday, boasted that half of the state House of Assembly members were “Obi-Datti” apostles, noting that the support received from the calibre of personalities in the state, was an indication that the party was on the march to taking over political power both in the state and the national levels in the forthcoming general elections.

He said: “Sincerely speaking, today is one of the happiest moments in my life. I have gone around to campaign for our presidential candidate, Peter Obi and I have received great receptions. I am particularly impressed by the calibres of personalities that grace this inauguration. In the entire northern states, we don’t have any personality that dumps APC and join Labour Party except in Kaduna State with the Deputy Speaker and another member from Zaria state constituency.”

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Urging  members of the party in the state to close ranks and unite so as to coast to victory in the forthcoming elections, he counselled Nigerian youths, with whom he acknowledged power resided in their hands and who formed the bulk of the Labour Party not to relent until Obi-Datti formed the next administration in the country.

Jonathan Asake, the party’s governorship candidate in the state,  described the party Labour Party Movement as “divine”, urging members of the campaign council to see their membership as a  “call to service,” considering the current mood of the nation.

“This is a call to service because the mood in the nation is that the Labour Party must take over the nation. The mood of the nation is nothing other than the readiness of the youths to take over Kaduna and Nigeria so that the country will be a production nation and not a consuming nation. This is a divine movement and  God’s hand is in the movement. May peace comes to Nigeria so that we may not experience hunger, or kidnapping again,” Asake, who’s also a former member of the House of Representatives, added.

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Okpebholo hails Tinubu, Ribadu, Sani, over safe return of abducted Kaduna students

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Monday Okpebholo, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in the September 21,  Edo State governorship election, has congratulated Uba Sani, Governor of Kaduna State, and the people of his state, on the successful rescue of the abducted Kuriga school children.

Okpebholo, the Senator representing Edo Central Senatorial District, who is popularly known as Akpakomiza, also praised the gallantry of the security agencies, particularly the Nigerian Army, involved in the rescue, as well as the National Security Adviser (NSA) to the President, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu.

The Edo APC governorship  hopeful, stressed that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu deserved to be appreciated for the priority that his administration has accorded security of the lives of Nigerians in the efforts being made to arrest criminalities in the country.

He believed that with the support of Nigerians and prayers, the current efforts by the APC administration would eventually rid the country of insecurity and usher in national prosperity in no distant time.

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On the forthcoming governorship election in Edo state, Okpebholo promised to make security as one of the major focal points in his campaign, as a precursor to his eventual victory in the forthcoming polls.

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BREAKING: Police humiliate, arrest Abure *LP fingers Apapa’s camp

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There is a grand plan to stop the Labour Party (LP) from participating in this year’s governorship election in Edo State, its leaders said on Wednesday, in reaction to the arrest and humiliation of Julius Abure, its National Chairman in Benin, the Edo State capital by security operatives.

Against the backdrop of a video which emerged on the same day, where Abure was seen been dragged on the floor by security operatives said to be from the police and the Department of State Security (DSS), the party also fingered Lamidi Apapa, who is also laying claims to the leadership of the party.

Though no reason was given for the arrest, the party offered one saying it came as a result of a letter of protest written by Apapa to the authorities, on the heels of the primaries to choose its candidate for the election, adding that the aim was to prevent it from participating in the polls.

Channels Television, quoted Obiora Ifoh, spokesman of the party as saying: “The Labour Party on Tuesday had a very successful delegate election in Benin ahead of the party primaries scheduled to hold on Friday. The party Chairman only this morning along with party governorship aspirants also kept a scheduled security briefing with the Department of the State Security.

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“Abure was however arrested after the meeting by a combined team of DSS and Police officers. Abure, Ogbaloi and their aides were also manhandled. The arrest of the party’s officials was in connection to a protest letter by one of the expelled member of the party loyal to Lamidi Apapa camp. It is to frustrate the primary process and possibly interrupt the party’s participation in the governorship election.”

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Only recently, Abure, had been embroiled in another crisis following an allegation of fraud in relations with the party finances, from Oluchi Opara, National Treasurer, who has since been suspended, after she directly accused the party boss of financial malfeasance, forgery and embezzlement of the party’s funds realised during the 2023 presidential election.

Abure and the party had denied the allegations even as Opara insisted that the national chairman should account for both naira and dollar donations to the party in the last poll.

LP presidential candidate in the last poll, Peter Obi, had said external auditors would probe the party’s financial books.

The LP leadership while denying any form of malfeasance denied for instance that it raised N3.5billion from donations and sales of forms for last year’s elections and accused her of being an agent of those intent on distabilising the party, especially the Apapa camp.

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BREAKING: PDP Chairman dies!

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Death has hit hard at the the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), with the death of Fatai Adams, chairman of the party in Ondo State, in the early hours of Wednesday.

Though details of his death have not been revealed, The PUNCH, quoted Kennedy Peretei spokesman of the party in the state who confirmed the incident as saying the party would soon make official communication to the media on the matter.

“Yes it is true but we will soon communicate you properly on the incident,” Peretei said of the ex-party boss, reportedly suspended last month by the State Working Committee (SWC) for allegedly involving in some anti-party activities.

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