Politics

As defection and resignation festival in Cross River State continues, another Special Adviser to Governor Ben Ayade on Environment, Mr. Obeten Ewa Mkang (JP) has followed the tread of others to resign. Mr. Obeten took the bow in a three paragraphs letter addressed to the Secretary to the State Government (SSG). His resignation followed the pattern of not less than five Commissioners and a host of other Aides who in bid to prove their loyalty to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) resigned. His three paragraphs resignation letter reads: “I most respectfully, write to notify you of my decision to resign…

Rimamnde Shawulu, PDP-Taraba, has urged the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Uche Secondus, to resign following mass defection from the party to the All Progressives Congress, APC. Mr Shawulu said this in a letter addressed to the chairman and made available to newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday. He decried the rate at which the party was losing members to the ruling APC in recent times. Mr Shawulu also urged members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party to resign. “Today, unexpectedly, four members of the House of Representatives from Zamfara defected from the PDP to…

HON. CHIJIOKE CHUKWU: A CASE OF A BUTTERFLY FEELING LIKE A BIRD. Chijioke Chukwu is a beginner as this is his first political outing, so I can not join issues with him. My position on the Umunneato Ngwa people producing the next Governor of Abia State is based on equity and fairness and it remains our stand. 2. In my interview I was very clear, I said…“If PDP gives their Governorship ticket to Abia North, who will do the voting?” I did not refer to Old Bende people as a whole as we have three other Local Governments of Old…

Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has reechoed calls for power to shift to the southern part of the country, backing the Southern Governors’ Forum’s resolution on the zoning of the presidential seat in 2023. The southern governors had during a meeting in Lagos on Monday agreed that the region should produce Nigeria’s next president based on the principles of equity, and fairness, an assertion Zulum also corroborated. “I have said it times without number that I, Professor Babagana Zulum, I am of the view that the presidency should go to the south in the year 2023 because the unity…

Thee agitations by different senatorial zones and some clannish organizations as to who succeeds Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu as the next Governor of Abia state took a different turn Tuesday morning as the Abia Assembly minority leader and member representing Bende North state constituency Hon. Chijioke Chukwu responded to an interview granted by his colleague, Hon. Ginger Onwusibe, who represents Isiala Ngwa Nouth state constituency. Recall that Hon. Onwusibe had in an interview granted to AFNews posed a rather rhetoric, controversial and derogatory question when he said “if ticket is given to an Abia North Man, who will do the voting.”…

Following the intrigues over the zoning of the Abia governorship position in 2023; a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and National Coordinator of PDP-Coalition, Chief Dr. Emeka Charles Kalu, has said Abia North Senatorial District is capable of delivering votes to help any of the political parties win 2023 governorship election. Kalu bared his mind against the backdrop of comments made by the member representing Isialangwa North State Constituency, Hon. Ginger Onwusibe, who questioned the numerical strength of Abia North Senatorial District to win elections. Kalu, in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday, said no section of the…

The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has reacted to the position of the Southern governors that the South should produce the President in 2023. The 17 Governors from the Southern part had demanded that the region produces the country’s next president. “The Forum reiterates its commitment to the politics of equity, fairness and unanimously agrees that the presidency of Nigeria be rotated between Southern and Northern Nigeria and resolved that the next president of Nigeria should emerge from the Southern Region,” they had said. Reacting to the decision, the Northern Elders through its Director of Publicity and Advocacy, Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed,…

...says House'll consider, pass authentic report in days The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila, reacted on Tuesday to claims that the leadership of the National Assembly altered the report on the Electoral Act (amendment) Bill 2020, still awaiting consideration by the Legislature. The speaker dismissed the thought, saying that it existed only in the "realm of speculation." Gbajabiamila clarified that nothing had happened to the authentic report on the bill, adding that the House would pass it in the next few days. Some media reports had lately conveyed the impression that the leadership of the National…

Four members of the House of Representatives elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from Zamfara State on Tuesday defected to the All Progressives Congress(APC). They cited the crisis within the party for their action. They are Bello Hassan Shinkafi, Ahmed Bakura, Ahmed Shehu and Suleiman Gumi. In a letter signed by Rep. Suleiman Gumi and read at Tuesday plenary, the lawmakers said they were leaving the PDP because of the crisis within it, which led to dissolution of the state chapter by the National leadership of the party.  

The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has rejected the position of the Southern governors that the South should produce the President come 2023. According to the Forum, the North would not be compelled into yielding a democratically elected office. The Northern Elders Forum through its Director of Publicity and Advocacy, Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, observed that as far as the North was concerned, the idea that it would be indirectly threatened or intimidated or blackmailed into yielding an office which ought to be settled democratically is not acceptable. The NEF sees the decision of the southern governors as an expression of sentiment…