Politics

Rivers State Governor, Mr Nyesom Wike, may have dumped his long-time political associate, Mr Aminu Tambuwal, Sokoto State Governor, for former Kaduna State Governor, Mr Ahmed Makarfi. The governor, who was in Kaduna on Monday in the country home of Makarfi, made a full show of their parley in his drive for new political alliance within the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, ahead of the 2023 presidential election. The Whistler gathered that Wike’s latest move is aimed at getting new political alliance to entrench himself among the political movers in the North that are members of the PDP. Wike’s political association…

Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has concluded plans to announce his presidential ambition immediately after the All Progressives Congress (APC) national convention, slated for Saturday, February 26. Sources close to Osinbajo’s strategy team hinted at the weekend that in spite of the ongoing campaigns against his currently rumoured bid for the presidency by some interests in the South-west, where he hails from, Osinbajo had made up his mind to give the presidency a shot. Even more instructive, inside sources claimed, was the fact that Osinbajo had received the blessing and the charge to go ahead with his ambition from his…

Popular Nigerian socio-political activist, Reno Omokri, on Sunday, reacted to reports that former President, Goodluck Jonathan has resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Omokri described the reports that Jonathan resigned from the PDP as false. In a series of tweets, the former aide to Jonathan urged Nigerians to disregard the report. According to Omokri: “The news floating around that former President @GEJonathan has resigned from the @OfficialPDPNig is false. Very false! “This news is being floated by people who were rejected in their state and went to their slave master’s town to receive dubious ‘honours’. Ignore it.” He also…

Chief Whip of the Senate  and leader  of All Progressives Congress (APC)  Caucus in Abia State, Senator Orji  Uzor Kalu has called on the members of the party to embrace unity and togetherness ahead of the 2023 general elections   The Abia North Senator also appealed to different factions to bury the idea of defecting to another political party amidst the disagreements in the party. In a statement made available to Newsmen on Sunday,  Kalu noted that disagreements are eminent in democratic settings, adding that he does not belong to any of the factions.   In his capacity as Leader…

A group, Abia Coalition Initiative Movement (ACIM), has called for unity and cohesion in the Abia State Chapter of the People's Democratic Party, PDP, to help the party consolidate and retain the state in 2023 general elections. This was contained in a statement issued by the group’s chairman, Elder Samuel Agbaeze, who threw their weight behind the aspiration of one of the aspirants of the party in the 2023 governorship election, Chief Kalu Idika. The group who disclosed that the endorsement of Idika became necessary as the party’s flag-bearer in the coming governorship election to give the party an edge…

Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, Chief Whip of the Senate, says if elected president, he will make Nigeria a “big player” in world affairs just like what he did with Enyimba FC. In January, Kalu announced that he will contest the presidency in 2023 if the ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is zoned to the south. The Senate Chief Whip was the governor of Abia state between 1999 and 2007. Enyimba FC, an Aba-based football club was taken over by the Abia government after the state was created in 1991. The club won major trophies at the national and…

Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has for the second time in a row been received a special recognition award as the Most Performing Senator in Nigeria by renowned Southwest publication organisation known as the South West First Alert Magazine. The group led by its publisher, Mr Charles Oladokun Aridunnu Omo presented the award to the Abia North Senator at his National Assembly, Abuja office on Wednesday. According to Oladokun the award to Senator Kalu is in recognition and appreciation of his  outstanding relentless efforts and tremendous contributions in putting SOUTHEAST NIGERIA on a good and productive…

Yesterday's inauguration of Dr. Ononogbu as the Abia APC Chairman, laid to rest the lingering controversy as to who controls the party levers in the state. As it stands, High Chief Ikechi Imenike has the party structure safely in his pocket. But who is this Ikechi Emenike and how was he able to defeat maverick politicians and bigwigs to clinch the party structure? Ikechi Emenike is a successful publisher and economist. His papers, the African Economy magazine and Annual Meetings Daily, have the franchise to publish for World Bank, IMF, AFDB, Commonwealth and several other international organizations. He is the…

Ahead of the 2023 general elections, a group Orji Uzor Kalu southern team for president 2023 coordinated by Honorable Lui Ndukwe has declared their support for senator Orji Uzor Kalu as the presidential candidates of the All Progressive Congress (APC). The group noted that it will be easier for the APC to win the upcoming presidential election if Dr Orji Uzor Kalu (OUK), emerges as the party’s standard bearer. Addressing the crowd at the unveiling ceremony in Asaba Delta State, The leader of the OUK Movement under the ages of southern solution team which covers four states Delta, Bayelsa, Anambra…

Watt Market traders union on Thursday, endorsed the Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu for President come 2023. The traders who were formally received into OUK movement by the Cross River State Coordinator, Comr. Njang Ndoma, anchored their support for the former Abia state governor on what they described as "the best man for the job". Specifically, the traders urged political parties, socio-political groups to adopt Senator Orji Uzor Kalu as their consensus candidate to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari. While appealing to the Senate Chief Whip to join the presidential race, the group said they were ready…