LABOUR PARTY: APAGUN'S WARD PASSES VOTE OF CONFIDENCE ON HIS LEADERSHIP

Declares April 25th State Congress Sacrosanct

Apagun 

Abeokuta — The ward of the embattled Ogun State Labour Party Chairman, Apagun Olaolu Samuel, has passed a vote of confidence on his leadership, describing him as an astute and pragmatic politician whose legacy remains a blessing to the party in the state.

The endorsement came during a special Independent Day ward general meeting held at Ita-Agemo Igbein, Abeokuta, in the company of the congress-elected Abeokuta South Local Government Chairman, Abdul Waheed Popoola, and other party faithful.

Speaking at the meeting, the Ward Chairman, Abd Quadri Isma'eel, showered encomiums on Apagun, noting that his leadership style has brought stability, discipline and renewed hope to the Labour Party in Ogun State.

He described Apagun as a grassroots mobilizer whose commitment to internal democracy and party growth is unmatched,  alleging the enemies of internal democracy and transactional leaders unknown to the grassroots as viruses plaguing the party in the state 

Members of the ward, in a unanimous voice, later passed a vote of confidence on Apagun's leadership, insisting that the April 25th State Congress which produced him and others in his cabinet remains sacrosanct and cannot be upturned by any manufactured list.

"We stand solidly behind our son and leader. The April 25th congress was duly conducted and monitored by INEC. Any other claim is null and void," Isma'eel declared.

In his remarks, Abd Waheed Popoola reaffirmed the position of Abeokuta South LGA executives, pledging their loyalty to the congress-elected leadership, as any other laying claim through the strokes of pen should come up with the proof of their April 25th Congress.

Responding during the meeting, Apagun Olaolu Samuel said God is in control, all hands must be on deck as the leadership at the state level is not sleeping over the burning issues. "Soonest, the substance shall be separated from the chaff, the interest of the enemy is to demarket the party and run down her popularity ahead of 2027 elections, we shall not engage them in a way that will fast track their goal" he concluded.

The meeting ended with chants of solidarity as members vowed to resist any attempt to impose alien leadership on the party in Ogun State.

It should be noted that the attempted illegal usurpation of Ogun State is currently before a competent Court of Jurisdiction in the state.

Dare Popoola 

MORE FRUSTRATIONS OVER IRAN: USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT HEADING TOWARD MIDDLE EAST AS CARRIER BUILDUP GROWS

Putin: "The whole world is amazed by the courage and heroism of the Iranian nation and its resilience"

United States is sending the USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT towards middle east as the US President Donald Trump said is either Iran signed the deal or exist no more.

Donald Trump's leadership have been increasingly desperate and frustrated at the same time as Tehran refused to surrender or sign Trump's deal.

According to the reports by both A Jazeera and the Jerusalem Post, President Trump has decided to deploy a third aircraft carrier to the Middle East.

A US official told Al Jazeera the carrier and its strike group are heading to the Middle East, 

With three aircraft carriers and two amphibious groups expected around Iran by the end of November

Russian President Vladimir Putin commended the Persian leadership for standing up to defend their sovereignty.

Putin said, the whole world is amazed by the courage and heroism of the Iranian nation and its resilience. He said the world will have to agree on a new global order

Sooner or later, East and West, North and South will have to agree on the principles of a new world order, Vladimir Putin said.

The world cannot be bipolar; it must be diverse and multipolar." President Putin declares the end of block-based hegemony and asserts every nation's right to pursue its own path.  Russia is still viewed in the West as part of an empire that should be “broken up further,” Vladimir Putin said addressing the Valdai Forum.

He argued that Western countries had in practice worked toward that goal despite Moscow’s years-long efforts to become part of a common European space.

Putin said true national greatness requires keeping pace with change, or ideally staying ahead of it, adding that Russia is charting its own path into the future and is ready to cooperate with other countries.

Moscow firmly rejects the nostalgic drive toward a cold-war-style bipolar order. A truly multipolar world directly undermines Western bloc politics, demanding a system built on sovereign equality and diverse power centers rather than ideological conformity.

Putin 

Speaking at the Valdai Discussion Club, the Russian leader said current global trends are forcing countries to confront a central question: how to preserved international peace and security.

Putin added that responsibility for the world’s shared future is “not an abstract slogan.”

He called the killing of Iran’s Ali Larijani a ‘tremendous mistake.’ ‘Such a person would be needed today to find compromises & solutions that could bring peace to the Persian Gulf’

Vladimir Putin said Russia hopes the Strait of Hormuz will reopen and sanctions on Iran will be lifted.

He reiterated that Moscow opposes aggression and supports resolving disputes through peaceful means. Putin also said Russia’s proposal to transfer Iran’s enriched uranium to Russian territory remains on the table.

Moscow and Tehran continue their economic and political ties despite US and allies pressure.

Putin: Russia was drawn into the Ukraine conflict

Speaking at the Valdai Discussion Forum, Vladimir Putin said Russia did not start the war but was deliberately pushed into the Ukraine conflict and forced to defend itself “with arms in hand” in response to aggression against the country.

He said Russophobia and discrimination against Russians must not become state ideology, and argued that seeking Russia’s “strategic defeat” was unacceptable.

Putin launches a fierce attack on the UN’s management, stating it is  run far less democratically than originally intended  and calling out Western manipulation within global institutions.

Putin’s direct assault on the UN leadership exposes the stark reality of Western double standards. By calling out how global governance has been hijacked as an instrument of Western influence, Moscow forcefully pushes for a complete overhaul toward a truly equal multipolar system.

Putin concluded by calling on countries to live peacefully and jointly search for ways to achieve that.

American forces set to leave Iraq, leaving opening for Iran

U.S. forces are set to depart from their last bases in Iraq by Wednesday, a move celebrated as a victory by Iran and its allies, who now have deep influence in the country where 4,500 Americans died during more than two decades of war.

Iraqi security experts say the withdrawal — agreed to in 2024 under U.S. President Joe Biden and carried out by Donald Trump’s administration even as it wages war against Iran — could give Tehran and its allies free rein, while also allowing other U.S. enemies, including the Islamic State, to stage a comeback.

It is glaring now more than ever that the regional security is to be primarily handle by the middle east leaders with Tehran playing major roles.

Iran stands to benefit strategically from the coalition’s departure because it removes a military presence that for years acted as a counterweight to Tehran’s influence in Iraq,” said Jasim al-Bahadli, an Iraqi security analyst specialising in studying armed Shi’ite groups aligned with Iran.

He predicted that the pro-Iranian militia groups would not only portray the departure as a victory for their movement, but also “seek to translate that momentum into greater influence over security and political decision making.”

Abu Mojtaba al-Yasiri, a commander in the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an ‌umbrella group of Iran-backed armed factions, described the U.S. withdrawal as “a historic victory for the Iraqi Islamic resistance groups and honorable Iraqis, and a crushing defeat for the American project.”

“On Sept. 30, we will celebrate the turning of a black page in Iraq’s history and the failure of the occupation to impose its will on our country,” he told Reuters. “Iraq has proven that its sovereignty cannot be secured by foreign forces, but by the resistance and the will of its people.”

NOT READY

While the eventual departure of U.S. forces is broadly popular among Iraqis, those who worry about the strength of the Iran-backed groups fear the withdrawal is premature.

“We believe Iraq is still not fully ready to take over the security file at this time,” Abdulrahman al-Zobaie, a Sunni tribal leader in Fallujah, once a bastion of anti-American resistance, told Reuters.

“All Iraqis aspire to full sovereignty, and no Iraqi would dispute that. But I believe that the [U.S.-led coalition] leaving in this way and creating a vacuum is what all Iraqis fear.”

American forces invaded Iraq in 2003 to topple Sunni Muslim dictator Saddam Hussein, and went on to occupy the country, install a Shi’ite-led government and fight a years-long counterinsurgency before withdrawing at the end of 2011.

They returned less than three years later to help Iraqi forces defeat the Sunni militant group the Islamic State in a major war from 2014 to 2017.

Around twice as many Americans died in “Operation Iraqi Freedom” as in the parallel war in Afghanistan, which ended with an abrupt U.S. withdrawal in 2021.

In recent years, Iraq has been the only country to maintain close political and military alliances with both the United States and Iran, which sometimes used Iraqi territory as a proxy battlefield.

HEARING DATE FIXED AS APAGUN DRAGS NENADI LED LABOUR PARTY, INEC TO COURT

Alleges Manufacture of New State Officers Against April 25th Legitimate Congress

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Abeokuta — The crisis rocking the Labour Party in Ogun State has taken a new turn as Apagun Olaolu Samuel dragged the Senator Nenadi Usman led national leadership of the Labour Party, the beneficiaries of hastily and illegal concocted office made state Congress results and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to court over alleged manipulation of the state congress results.

Apagun, who claims to be the duly elected State Chairman from the congress held and monitored by INEC officials on the 25th of April this year, with the DSS and Nigerian Police on ground is accusing the parties of jettisoning the legitimate outcome to manufacture and recognize a new set of state officers without any Congress.

In the suit number FHC/AB/CS/123/2026 filed at the court, Apagun is praying for an order to nullify the purported list of officers currently paraded as executives of the party in the state, and to compel INEC who had at a time sent a copy of the Congress report to the Nigerian Police Ogun State Headquarters to affirm the true leadership of Ogun State Labour Party in May when there was an issues over the state Secretariat of the party between Chief Mrs Oluwabukola Aṣabi Sogoye and Com. Lookman Abiodun Jagun to recognize and publish only the names of those who emerged from the April 25th congress as delivered to the Police department.

According to him, the April 25th exercise was conducted in line with the party constitution, duly observed by INEC monitors, and produced clear winners across all positions. He described any other list in circulation as a product of illegality and an affront to democratic principles.

“The congress of April 25 was free, fair and monitored. What we are seeing now is a deliberate attempt to replace the will of delegates with manufactured names. The court must intervene to protect internal democracy,” a source close to Apagun said.

When INEC Ogun state Secretariat was visited, Apagun Olaolu Samuel, whose name was in their records as pasted on their notice board since April had been removed since August 17th and Awaiting instructions from National written therein as officials of INEC in Ogun State declined to comment, on the court processes. Efforts to get a reaction from the Labour Party national secretariat were also unsuccessful as at press time.

The development is the latest in a series of legal battles that have plagued the Labour Party in Ogun State and Nigeria in recent time, with rival factions laying claim to the state leadership.

Political observers say the outcome of the case could determine the direction of the party ahead of future elections in the state.

The hearing date has been fixed for Wednesday, 30th of September, 2026.

Senator Nenad Usman who hitherto has been enjoying a momentum supports loose credibility immediately after the national convention of the part in Abia state when her decided to walk against all the convention ratification.

Congresses conducted through the Wards, Local government and States were ratified by the national convention. After the convention, many of the state leadership were abruptly replaced. 

The party currently is nothing to recon with as per the next year general elections.

Iran offers U.S. a seven-day plan to reopen Strait of Hormuz

 

The Islamic Republic of Iran has offered a seven days plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz water way.

Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi said Tehran has offered the U.S. a seven-day plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz if conditions are met.

According to the Iran's FM, “Iran has conveyed to the United States, through Qatar, a concrete seven-day plan. If the necessary conditions are met, the strait can be reopened, and normal maritime passage restored within seven days.”

Araghchi said the next step depends on Washington,

“The choice now rests with the United States.”

The reported plan includes a seven-day halt to regional hostilities, the release of at least $12 billion in frozen Iranian assets, lifting sanctions on Iranian oil, and an end to the U.S. naval blockade. Iran would reopen Hormuz on the seventh day of the truce.

“If there is seriousness in the U.S. side to come to a deal and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, everything is now prepared.”

IRAN CONFIRMS TALKS with TRUMP ENVOYS — Tasnim

 

AGENDA: IRAN’S TERMS for REOPENING STRAIT OF HORMUZ

CONDITIONS: ‘Immediate lifting of blockade, immediate payment of all frozen Iranian assets, and an end to war on all fronts’

Iranian State TV Confirmed that a Direct Meeting took place between Araghchi and Withkoff in New York

The meeting lasted Three Hours

Iran presented its Demands regarding the Opening of the Strait of Hormuz:

- The immediate lifting of the Naval Blockade

- The immediate release of all of Iran's Frozen a

Assets

- End to the war across All Fronts

TRUMP HINTS AT NUKING IRAN AT UNGA 

“I have a big decision to make. Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before, maybe one of the greatest in the Middle East or even the world? 

Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again? 

Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness for generations?

But I believe we’ll make a deal right after the election, because it doesn’t make sense for them not to. 

They’re waiting to see how I do in the midterm election. What they don’t realize is that I’m not running. I did that already and won in a landslide.”