Politics

OUK 2023: Northern Youths Kick Off Campaign, Flood Posters in Abuja, Kano, Umuahia, Enugu Few months after declaring support for a detrabilized Nigerian President who can unite the country and save the country from imminent disintegration,  Northern group, Arewa Youths for Orji Uzor Kalu, has made a bold statement by flooding posters of Orji Uzor Kalu for President.  The posters were sighted in Abuja , Kano , Umuahia, Aba, Enugu. Kalu who is the Chief Whip of the Senate and former Governor of Abia state has been called upon by several Northern and Southern leaders , Civil  society groups and…

Arewa Community Floods Posters of Senator Orji Kalu for President in South East  After calling for support  for the emergence of an Igbo person as president of Nigeria in the 2023 General Elections, the Association of Arewa Community in Igboland has flooded the South East with posters of eminent businessman and Chief Whip of the Senate ,  Senator Orji Uzor Kalu to run for President of Nigeria come 2023 The posters sponsored by the group were pasted  in Strategic places in Umuahia, Enugu , Awka, Owerri and Abakaliki Its National President, Alhaji Mohammed Umaru, who earlier made  appeal at a…

Former National Chairman of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), Senator Victor Umeh, says Anambra State is not Imo. Umeh stated this while reacting to the threat by Senator Andy Uba, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in last week’s election, to challenge APGA’s victory. Uba had alleged that APGA did not win the election, citing alleged irregularities. He had vowed to slug it out with Professor Chukwuma Soludo, winner of the election, while accusing the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of conniving with APGA. But in his response, Umeh said APGA’s lawyers are ready to meet Uba in…

The Anambra State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress has sacked its publicity secretary, Okelo Madukaife. The state chairman of the party, Basil Ejidike announced this at a press conference in Awka, the Anambra capital on Sunday. He said Madukaife who was suspended in June this year had continued to parade himself as the public secretary to the extent that he appeared on national television recently to congratulate the All Progressives Grand Alliance governor-elect, Prof Chukwuma Soludo. Ejidike said, “Okelo was suspended in June this year. We were surprised that he has continued to parade himself as the publicity secretary…

November 14, 2021 Press Statement Andy Uba thanks Party members, campaign team ...Resolves to head to Court ...As Preliminary examination show that APC and it's candidate has grounds to challenge the declaration of Soludo as governor-elect     Members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Anambra state chapter yesterday reviewed the outcome of the November 6, 2021 Anambra governorship election, and resolved that there were enough grounds to judicially interrogate the outcome. The Party's candidate in the election, Senator Andy Uba and the top echelon of the party in the state led by the state chairman, Chief Basil Ejidike after…

The All Progressives Congress faction loyal to Senator Magnus Abe in Rivers State has expressed its support for the rumoured 2023 presidential ambition of the party’s national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. This is as a former senator who represented Rivers West senatorial district in the National Assembly, Wilson Ake, alleged that the #EndSARS protest in 2020 was targeted at Tinubu. Ake spoke at the inauguration of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu Support Group christened BATS Vanguard, Rivers State chapter at Freedom House, Senator Abe campaign Secretariat in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, on Saturday. Ake, who is also the chairman,…

In this interview with journalists, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, a former president of the Senate and the newly elected national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) spoke on the chances of the party ahead of the 2023 general elections, his plans for reconciliation and funding, the new zoning arrangement, among other issues. As the new national chairman of a former ruling party hoping to take over power in 2023, you have a lot of responsibilities; what are your priorities? Political parties’ priorities are always to win. I have reviewed the reasons why we lost power in 2015, so I will…

Senator Andy Uba of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has vowed never to let go the outcome of the just concluded Anambra governorship poll. Uba said he will use all legal means to recover his alleged stolen mandate. The APC candidate said this while addressing party stakeholders in a meeting in Awka, the Anambra State capital, on Saturday. A former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, and of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, was declared winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. But the APC candidate, Uba came third according to INEC, behind…

How Could I Have Lost My Ward When APGA Chairmen Joined APC A Week To The Election? - Andy Uba To Challenge Election Results The Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the just concluded Anambra State Governorship election, Andy Uba has questioned the credibility of the exercise saying it was impossible for him to have lost at where APGA Ward Chairmen defected to the APC. Uba, while addressing party members on Saturday insisted that the election was fraught with a lot of irregularities and he would challenge its outcome in court. According to Uba, there is no how…

By Chinedum Ibeh, While political watchers were still hailing the serially defeated PDP's Chima Anyaso for his courage in what appeared to be a visit of bridge building to member representing Bende Federal Constituency, Abia State Hon. Benjamin Kalu, Anyaso has finally revealed his mission at the visit, saying he was merely acting a script. Recall that Hon. Benjamin Kalu of the APC trounced Anyaso of the PDP in the 2019 race to represent the people of Bende Federal Constituency after losing in a celebrated radio debate he organised . Infuriated by the bloody nose he suffered in the hand…