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The House of Representatives Majority Leader, Alhassan Ado Doguwa, has alleged that the deputy governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kano, Murtala Sule Garo is a mole in the party, because he is working for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. This is even as he refuted the trending story that he sent a delegation of party members to beg Garo, also a former Kano State Commissioner for Local Government, after exchanging of blows between them over the weekend. Doguwa in a video now trending on social media and sighted by THE…

Senator Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed Binani has resigned her position as the Coordinator of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council in Adamawa State, THE WHISPERER has learnt. A statement personally signed by Binani indicated that she stepped aside pending the outcome of an appeal case against the annulment of her election as the governorship candidate. A federal high court had nullified the governorship primary in the state won by Binani. “Senator Aishatu Binani steps aside as Adamawa State Tinubu/Shettima Campaign Coordinator pending the outcome of Appeal Court case filed. The PCC is urged to appoint an interim coordinator in…

Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike has increased the number of his newly appointed special assistants on political units to 200, 000. The Governor, while inaugurating the last batch of the 100,000 appointees at the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium, Omagwa in Ikwerre Local Government Area on Friday, said he decided to increase the number to accommodate more people, who had shown willingness to work for him. The Governor, who said the gesture was part of the stomach infrastructure he promised the state, asked local government chairmen to return to their domains and identify more people for appointments. Details Shortly…

A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, on Friday, dismissed a suit seeking to disqualify the governorship candidate of PDP, Siminalaye Fubara, believed to be the anointed candidate of Governor Nyesom Wike. An aspirant of the PDP, Chief Morgan West, had challenged Fubara’s candidacy. Morgan alleged that Fubara was not a member of the party and did not have a valid PDP membership card, among other issues. However, the presiding judge, Justice Adamu T. Mohammed, in his judgment, threw out the suit for incompetence and lack of jurisdiction.

In what appeared to be a reprisal probably to make up of for the loss of five governors, popularly known as the G-5, presidential candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, is currently in talks with five governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Disclosing the development to Leadership, the Atiku/Okowa presidential campaign organisation said the APC governors who are friends with Atiku have been consulting with the former vice president on how to support him. According to the PDP campaign team, the five APC governors are willing to jump ship because they believe Atiku has a…