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AHEAD of the 2023 elections, Governor Nyesom Wike says he has accepted Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and running mate, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, but will never ever accept party national chairman, Sen Iyorcha Ayu to remain in office before the elections. Wike who asserted this while hosting Cross River State PDP governorship and all state and national assembly candidates along with local government chairmen of his private residence in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, Wednesday night, also said genuine efforts to amicably resolve the impasse in the PDP were being frustrated by rent-seekers in the party. Addressing his…

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has declared support for the candidacy of Ifeanyi Okowa, vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). According to TheCable, at a meeting with some members of the PDP on Wednesday night, Jonathan addressed Okowa as Nigeria’s incoming vice-president. The meeting was attended by party stalwarts, including Bala Mohammed, governor of Bauchi state. “Our incoming vice-president — he has served two tenures as a governor,” Jonathan told Okowa as he held his hand. The former president also wished those contesting for various positions in the 2023 elections “more success”. This is Jonathan’s first public statement backing…

The lead counsel of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), has said the discharge of his client is too complex for human understanding. THE WHISPERER reported earlier that the Appeal Court, Abuja Division on Thursday discharged Kanu on all seven counts charge bordering on terrorism and treasonable felony brought against him by the Federal Government. But reacting to the judgment, Ozekhome said the lower court glossed over the case placed before it on the “kidnap, torture and extraordinary rendition” of Kanu from Kenya back to Nigeria which the Appellate Court…

The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, on Thursday reacted to the decision of the Appeal Court to discharge leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. In a statement signed by spokesperson, Dr. Umar Jibril Gwandu, Mr Malami said the appeal court only discharged Kanu and did not acquit him. “The Office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice has received the news of the decision of the Court of Appeal concerning the trial of Nnamdi Kanu,” the statement said. “For the avoidance of doubt and by the verdict…

Rivers State governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, on Thursday, reviewed the list of his newly appointed Special Assistants and increased the number to 50,000. The governor, had in a statement issued in Port Harcourt on Wednesday announced the appointment of 28,000 special assistants and 359 local government and Ward liaison officers. The number of recent appointments by the governor, was outside the appointment of 14,000 special assistants last Tuesday. Wike, in a statement issued in Port Harcourt on Thursday by his media aide, Kelvin Ebiri, said all the appointments take immediate effect.

Award-winning Nigerian author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who was recently decorated with Harvard University’s iconic W.E.B. Du Bois Medal, has broken her silence over her non-appearance at the conferment of national honours ceremony by President Buhari on Tuesday, October 11. Putting the records straight, a member of Chimamanda’s communications team, Omawumi Ogbe, told The Guardian that she declined the honour.⁣ ⁣ “Following the recent conferment of national awards by the President, there have been conflicting reports about one of the announced recipients, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Some social media users say the award-winning writer rejected the award, while others say she accepted…

The Appeal Court sitting in Abuja has discharged the embattled leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. Kanu is being prosecuted by the Federal Government at the Federal High Court in Abuja for 15 count charges bordering, including treasonable felony and terrorism, offences he allegedly committed in the course of his separatist campaigns. A three-man panel of the Court of Appeal said the Federal High Court lacks the jurisdiction to try him in view of his abduction and extraordinary rendition to Nigeria in flagrant violation of the OAU convention and protocol on extradition. According to Channels Television,…

Presidential Candidate of the labour Party, Mr Peter Obi has 15 million verified votes ahead of the 2023 elections, Director General, Labour Party Doyin Okupe has said at the public presentation of the 1,234 members of the Presidential Campaign Council. According to Doyin Okupe, the records show that there are more new voters than old voters, therefore, the pool of new voters with their power of tsunami would destroy the structures of the expired ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the main opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP). The National Secretary, of the Labour Party, Clement Ojukwu, who announced some leaders…

Ahead of the 2023 presidential elections, the Labour Party has released the list of its Presidential Campaign Council list consisting of 1,234 members. The list was disclosed on Wednesday during a press conference in Abuja The list was released 14 days after the official commencement of campaigns for the forthcoming 2023 general election. Earlier, Dr. Doyin Okupe who was announced as the Director General of the Campaign Council declared that the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi has the capacity the defeat other candidates in the coming election. Details shortly…..

A cleric, Reverend Kalu Ukpai Ota has urged the people of Abia North Senatorial District to re-elect Senator Orji Uzor Kalu in 2023, noting that Kalu's performance is the best he has seen since the creation of Abia State. Ota, in a chat with journalists in Ohafia on Tuesday morning slammed those opposing Kalu's re-election by tagging them "the enemy of our people". He specifically praised Kalu's Infrastructural development through the construction of rural roads across the district. "Well, I cannot in all honesty understand how these works have been achieved within this short time and, indeed, in the climate…