Freshman Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota apologized for tweets she put out that many considered anti-Semitic. “Anti-Semitism is real and I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes,” Omar said in a statement.
There’s a deal on the table, but will the President go along with it? That’s the question Washington is waking up to this morning, after congressional negotiators said last night they’d reached an agreement in principle to avoid another government shutdown.
The deal would include $1.375 billion dollars for barrier funding to cover about 55 miles of new barrier in the Rio Grande Valley, which had been a priority for the White House.
U.S. lawmakers on Monday reached a tentative deal to try to avert another partial government shutdown on Saturday, but congressional aides said it did not contain the $5.7 billion President Donald Trump wants for a border wall.
“We reached an agreement in principle” on funding border security programs through Sept. 30, Republican Senator Richard Shelby told reporters.
“Our staffs are going to be working feverishly to put all the particulars together,” Shelby said. Neither he nor three other senior lawmakers flanking him provided any details of the tentative pact.
A Second Republic lawmaker and prominent member of the Northern Elders’ Forum (NEF), Dr. Junaid Muhammed, has said the socio-cultural group did not endorse People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
According to Muhammed, only some members of the group, led by Prof. Ango Abdullahi, backed Atiku.
Last week, leaders and elders of some geo-political zones announced their endorsement of the PDP candidate as their preferred choice for the February 16 presidential polls.
The All Progressive Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State yesterday exchanged verbal invectives over PDP’s allegations that the ruling party reserved recovered loot for vote-buying.
The opposition said the ruling party allegedly perfected plans to use the recovered loot from the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, to buy votes in the forthcoming polls, use security operatives to rig the elections and use officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to perpetrate electoral fraud.
But the APC denied the claim, describing it as a figment of imagination orchestrated by the enemies of progressive …
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has accused Jubril Al-Sudani, (the impostor being paraded as President Muhammadu Buhari )of the All Progressives Congress (APC) of instigating violence ahead of Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections.
The “Lifeless President”(according to President Donald Trump) had, while campaigning in Zamfara State, been reported to have said: “Come out and vote for our choice. May Allah grant us patience; May He bless us with bountiful harvest, because I want every one of us to be well fed so that even if it comes to violence we are ready.”…
All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign rally held yesterday at the MKO Abiola International Stadium, Abeokuta, Ogun State, witnessed tremendous violence which compelled security operatives to shield the impostor, Jubril Al-Sudani being paraded as President Muhammadu Buhari from being pelted.
A group known as the Incorporated Trustees of Egalitarian Mission for Africa, is requesting the Federal High Court Abuja, to disqualify the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, from contesting the February 16 presidential election.
The group alleged irregularities in the citizenship of the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Mr. Kayode Ajulo, filed the suit on behalf of the group seeking an interpretation of Sections 25(1) & (2) and 131(a) of the 1999 Constitution.
The All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential campaign, Monday went wrong as hoodlums greeted Jubril being paraded as President Muhammadu Buhari and the party’s national chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole with stones at the MKO Abiola International Stadium, Kuto, Abeokuta. Violence erupted as Oshiomhole was invited to the podium for his speech.
Reports have it that as he began to speak, persons suspected to be hoodlums started throwing stones at him and one of the stones flew in the direction where the President was sitting.
Jubril (Buhari) was saved by one of his security operatives who took the hit for him. No …
The Governor of Katsina State, His Excellency, Aminu Masari has urged Nigerians to vote for the impostor, Jubril Al-Sudani (being paraded in Nigeria as President Muhammadu Buhari. The Governor who was once involved in certificate scandal as Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives between 2003 and 2007 ) because the impostor has good intention for Nigeria and making sacrifices for the country.
About a week ago, the former Senate President Sen. Ken Nnamani called a meeting in his Abuja’s residence to review All Progressives Congress plan towards winning the South East, Africa Daily News, New York exclusively gathered from a reliable source.
At the meeting were Senator Ike Ekweremadu, Gbazueagu Nweke Gbazueagu and two others our source did not know.
During the meeting, they reviewed the success of their planned takeover of the South-East. They said they had enough materials and money to commence house-to-house campaign this week .
As the meeting was on, Sen. Nnamani reported that Governor Obiano of Anambra …
The PDP in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, said Jubril Al-Sudani being paraded as President Buhari has failed his integrity test and has no moral rectitude whatsoever to pontificate on corruption, his administration having been enmeshed in high-profile corruption.
Vanguard reports:
The party said if there is any person whose activities of corruption have become a threat to the coming election, it is President Buhari, who it alleged is financing his campaign with looted funds, while surrounding himself with politicians indicted for corruption.
The statement read in part: “The PDP, out of respect for the …
