Politics

The feud between the Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila and his deputy, Ahmed Idris Wase, over the former’s endorsement of the All Progressives Congress (APC) consensus candidates, Tajudeeen Abbas and Benjamin Kalu, has deepened as the two exchanged words on floor of the House on Wednesday. Wase had challenged Gbajabiamila after an announcement requesting that the content of Thursday’s Order Paper be reduced to allow members attend the official Commissioning of the permanent site of the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies(NILDS). He asked the Chairman of the House Committee on Rules and Business, Abubakar Hassan Fulata, that the order paper…

As the jostle for 10th National Assembly Senate Presidency intensifies, strong indications have emerged that three nominations for the race to the office of the President of the Senate will be made during the Chamber’s inauguration in June. Saturday Telegraph learnt that the three aspirants who are likely to be nominated to stand for the election to the office of the President of the Senate on June 13, are the Senate Chief Whip, Orji Uzor Kalu, the former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio and a former Governor of Zamfara State, Abdul’aziz Yari. An insider in the ongoing…

A total of twelve pilgrims in Ajeromi Ifelodun federal constituency of Lagos State are beneficiaries of sponsored pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj by Hon Francis Barthlomew Chima aka OmoBarca. As a generous philanthropist and politician, OmoBarca has been sponsoring constituents of Ajeromi Ifelodun for the annual Hajj irrespective of political affiliation to Saudi Arabia since 2011 as a means of giving back to the society and as an assignment from God. According to his media aide, Obinna Francis Solace, the criteria for selection of beneficiaries includes being a committed Muslim faithful known to be religious enough to…

Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Muritala Ajaka, has resigned from his membership in the party. Ajaka was a governorship aspirant in his party primary that produced a former Auditor General for Local Governments in the North Central State, Ahmed Usman Ododo, as the standard bearer. The outcome of the primary has since become the subject of litigation. Ajaka in his letter dated April 17, 2023 and addressed to the National Chairman of the party, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, entitled, “Notice of Resignation as Deputy National Publicity Secretary and Member of the APC National Working Committee,” recalled that…

Barring any last-minute change, the National Working Committee, NWC, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, will declare a free contest for principal officers of the 10th National Assembly. The APC had zoned the Senate presidency to the South-South and the speaker of the House of Representatives to the North-West. It announced Senator Godswill Akpabio, as its consensus candidate for Senate presidency and Senator Jibrin Barau, as the next Deputy Senate President in the 10th Assembly. Similarly, the party zoned the speakership of the House of Representatives to a Kaduna lawmaker, Tajudeen Abbas, while Ben Kalu, a reps-elect from South-East, clinched…

A chieftain of the Labour Party (LP) in Abia State, Hon. Ubani Dannie has accused Chief Uchenna Erondu (Igodo), a former Special Adviser on General Duties to Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, of being behind the leadership crisis rocking the Abia State House of Assembly. According to him, the conflict that came with the purported impeachment of Hon. Chinedum Orji by some members of the House was not in the interest of the state but personal quest for leadership and position. On Tuesday, some members of the House voted to impeach the Speaker, Chinedum Orji over what they termed gross misconduct and…