Politics

As the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) prepares for national convention, gladiators eyeing the position of national chairmen are warming up. They are mainly from the South. This may have raised expectations that the main opposition party may zone its 2023 presidential ticket to the North. Atiku Abubakar Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has not hidden his desire to contest for the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2023 presidential election. While it may be too early in the day to weigh Atiku in the balance, developments in the party and projections in the months ahead will…

UMEOJI/JUDE OKEKE SURRENDER TO OYE/SOLUDO AS COURT OF APPEAL ENUGU DISMISSES THEIR APPEAL AGAINST THE JUDGMENT OF HIS LORDSHIP, HON JUSTICE C C OKAA WHICH UPHELD THE DR VICTOR OYE LED LEADERSHIP OF APGA AND THE CANDIDACY OF PROF CHARLES CHUKWUMA SOLUDO. A Special panel of the Court of Appeal sitting at Enugu and presided over by His Lordship, Hon Justice Monica Dongban Mensem, PCA on Wednesday, 25th August 2021, struck out the appeal filed by Jude Okeke/Umeoji against the judgment of His Lordship, Hon Justice C C Okaa delivered on the 19th of July, 2021. The Court of Appeal…

Two factions have emerged in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) following the suspension of the party National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, by a Port Harcourt High Court. On Monday, the court restrained Secondus from parading himself as PDP helmsman. Sequel to this, the Deputy National Chairman (South), Elder Yemi Akinwonmi, laid claim to the leadership of the party. But the Deputy National Chairman (North), Senator Suleiman Nazif, also said he is in charge of the party. The Nazif led faction of the party has fixed Friday August 27, for the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting.

The Deputy National Chairman (South) of the Peoples Democratic Party, Elder Yemi Akinwonmi, has taken over the affairs of the party following the restraining order issued against the National Chairman, Uche Secondus, by a Rivers High Court in Port Harcourt on Monday. Akinwonmi cited Section 35 (b) of the PDP Constitution to support his action and suspended the National Working Committee meeting of the party indefinitely. THE WHISPERER reported that a High Court in Rivers State restrained Prince Uche Secondus from parading himself as the National Chairman or member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The injunction was granted on…

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has tackled Barr. Aliyu Mahdi Gusau, the Deputy Governor of Zamfara State for not defecting to the All Progressives Congress, APC with his principal. The deputy governor had refused to defect with Governor Bello Mattawale to the APC. In a tweet on Tuesday morning, the former aviation minister said: “When a Governor decamps from one party to another shouldn’t his Deputy go with him? Is that not what loyalty is all about? “Against his better judgement @Bellomatawalle1 picked you as his running mate & made you Deputy Governor &…

Mr Uche Secondus has reacted to the court order restraining him from acting as the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). His reaction follows the ruling of Justice Okogbule Gbasam of the Degema Division of the Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt. “If Secondus and the party are taken to court, they will defend themselves,” Secondus’ media aide, Ike Abonyi, said in a statement on Monday. “PDP and Secondus are not afraid of court; this party is a child of history, owned by Nigerians, bigger than any individual or group, including desperadoes.” Abonyi, however, claimed that…

A High Court in Rivers State has restrained embattled Prince Uche Secondus from parading himself as the National Chairman or member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The injunction was granted on Monday by Hon. Justice O. Gbasam of the Degema Judicial Division Vacation Court sitting in Port Harcourt. The development followed a suit No: PHC/2183/CS/2021 filed by Ibeawuchi Ernest Alex, Dennis Nna Amadi, Emmanuel Stephen and Umezirike Onucha against Uche Secondus (1st defendant) and the PDP (2nd defendant). The judge, after reading the affidavit in support of the motion of ex parte as well as the written address, and…

Some members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)have dragged the Yobe Governor, Mai Buni and the Caretaker Committee to court They are demanding the sack of Buni, the 13-member national committee, as well as the nullification of all their actions. They joined the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Attorney General and Justice Minister, Abubakar Malami in the suit The summon is registered in suit no FHC/ABJ/CS/938/2021 and a motion for interlocutory injunction were filed by their lawyer, Samuel Irabor at the Federal High Court. The plaintiffs presented grounds to back their request for the removal of the…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday unveiled names of substituted candidates ahead of November 6 governorship election in Anambra State. In the new list which revealed seven substituted governorship candidates and 11 deputy candidates, former Governor of Central Bank, Professor Charles Soludo, replaced Honorable Chukwuma Umeoji of the House of Representatives as the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). The commission had, last month, placed Honourable Umeoji as APGA candidate, following the judgment of the Jigawa High Court of June 28 which accorded recognition to Umeoji who emerged at the parallel primaries conducted by the Jude…

2023: IBB, Obasanjo, Saraki, Secondus in Closed-door Meeting Party leaders have been divided over where the presidential ticket of the party should be zoned to ahead of the 2023 election. Ahead of tomorrow’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), leaders of the party yesterday held separate strategic meetings in Minna, the Niger State capital and Abuja, the nation’s capital. The Minna meeting which coincided with the 80th birthday celebration of former military president, Gen Ibrahim Babangida, was attended by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, PDP national chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, former Senate president, Abubakar Bukola Saraki;…