Politics

POWER!!! 2023 Election: PDP Holds Closed-Door Meeting With Bolaji Abdullahi, Other Ex-Guber Aspirants The Kwara State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has held a closed-door meeting with its former gubernatorial aspirants. The meeting, which was held at the party’s Tanke Junction Secretariat, Ilorin has immediate past Speaker, Kwara State House of Assembly, Hon Ali Ahmad; a former Minister of Youth and Sports, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, a former state Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Saka Isau (SAN) and one-time Chief of Staff and former Commissioner for Health, Alhaji Ladi Hassan, among others in attendance. Although the details of the…

He will be part of those that will make a better and youthful president for this country. I believe in his judgement,” he said Kogi Governor Yahaya Bello has declared that Bola Tinubu, a leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), will support a youthful president come general elections in 2023. Mr Bello made the comment while speaking to BBC Pidgin. When asked who will make a better president between him and Mr Tinubu in 2023, Mr Bello said that Mr Tinubu knows his limitations and would rather advocate for the younger generation to take over the leadership of…

Okigwe Zone Senatorial Zone Election: Gov. Uzodinma Loses As Owerri Hight Court Vacates Injunction Restraining INEC From Issuing Certificate Of Return To Ararume Justice E. O. Agada of Owerri High Court vacates the Injunction he placed on INEC not to issue Senator Ifeanyi Araraume Certificate of Return, saying INEC should issue him Certificate Of Return as ordered by Federal High Court Abuja.   Details later.

“We, therefore, say categorically that the Senate President has never made any such statement, before or after 2019. The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan has debunked reports which alleged that he was planning for a constitutional amendment to elongate President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure beyond 2023. Mr Lawan, in a statement by his Special Adviser (Media), Ola Awoniyi, in Abuja, said he firmly stands by the constitutional provision for a term limit for elected public officers and would not support any move to amend the section. The statement reads: “The Office of the President of the Senate has noted a tweet by…

THE WHISPERER reports that the Justice Yunusa Musa-led three-member election petitions tribunal in Edo State will on Monday (Today) rule on the remaining four of the five petitions by the aggrieved governorship candidates and parties that took part in the September 19, 2020 election in the state. The petitions were filed by the Action Democratic Party (ADP) and its candidate, Iboi Emmanuel; and Tracy Agol. Agol did not include her party, the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in the petition against Governor Godwin Obaseki. The other two were by the Action Peoples Party (APP) and the Allied Peoples Movement (APM).…

2023 Election: PDP set to waive nomination fees for youths below this age. The National Reconciliation and Strategy Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has recommended that any aspirant seeking to contest for elective position on the platform of the party who is under the age of 35 years should be exempted from the payment of nomination fees. The proposal was contained in a one-page letter dated March 25, 2021, signed by the Chairman of the committee and former Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, and addressed to the party’s National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus. The committee also advised the…

As stakeholders prepare for 2023 governorship election in Abia State and some interest groups suggest fresh zoning formula in order to produce Governor Okezie Ikpeazu’s successor, Associate Editor, Sam Egburonu, reports that Abia North Senatorial Zone leaders and other patriots in the state are bent on sustaining the Abia Charter of Equity Although the 2023 General Election is still over a year away, the political atmosphere in Abia State has become intriguing. This is primarily because of underground moves over the successor of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, a second term governor who will no longer contest in 2023. The intrigues became…