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THE National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Abdullahi Adamu is set to meet President Muhammadu Buhari by 3pm on Tuesday, THE WHISPERER has gathered. A source who preferred not to be named told THE WHISPERER that Adamu is expected to meet President Muhammadu Buhari over the choice of the Senate President as the consensus candidate of the party. Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, had revealed that the National Chairman of the party, Abdullahi Adamu, and the party’s National Working Committee, are set to present the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, to President Muhammadu Buhari…

The seven-member presidential screening committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has shortlisted 13 aspirants to participate in the presidential primary election billed to hold on Monday. The committee chaired by former national chairman of the party, John Odigie-Oyegun, confirmed the story while submitting its report yesterday to the party’s national chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja. Earlier Friday, speculations about “disqualification” of some of the presidential aspirants were rife following the failure of Oyegun, who briefed journalists after submitting the report, to name the 13 aspirants on his committee’s shortlist. But dependable sources in the…

Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State says his deputy, Ude Oko-Chukwu failed to consult him over his 2023 governoship ambition. The Governor who spoke in an Exclusive interview on "Nigeria now with Dickson Iroegbu" in Abuja, said Ude Oko-Chukwu became too ambitious to succeed him. In his words "My Deputy didn't tell me he wanted to replace me, he didn't consult me, he had gone everywhere before they advised him to talk to his Governor, when he finally came, I told him he has come a bit late, mind you, I am the only Governor in Abia State that has…