Politics

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…

PRESS RELEASE The March  27, 2021 Aba North  and Aba South Federal Constituency by-election  is over, and Peoples  Democratic Party (PDP)  has been declared winner by the Independent National Electoral Committee (INEC), we  appeal to our members to accept the outcome of the elections in good faith while appreciating them for making the Party stronger in Abia. While the opposition wanted the election at all cost , we chose life over blood shed and therefore won lives and lost the polls. To us, that was a greater victory . The level of  thuggery, violence and rigging that occurred in the…

Speakers of states’ houses of assemblies from North-west Nigeria have endorsed the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, for president in the 2023 general election, Mudashiru Obasa, the Speaker of the Lagos Assembly has said. A statement issued by Mr Obasa’s media office Saturday said the speakers pledged their support at a meeting held at Kano on Friday. A former speaker from Kano, Abdullahi Yanshana, reportedly said “95 per cent of the votes from Kano in 2023 will be in favour of the national leader of the APC”, the statement said. Mr Obasa said both the…

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the ongoing Aba North/Aba South Federal Constituency bye-election, Chimaobi Ebisike has expressed confidence of winning the election. Speaking after casting his vote, Ebisike said the report he is receiving from different centres indicate that the PDP is in clear lead. “I have never had any doubt of winning this election. The Governor has done so well that the people are eager to repay his Party and my humble self with victory. So I’m not surprised that reports from the fields indicate we are leading”, he said.  

Chief Onyebuchi Ememanka, Chief Press Secretary to the Abia State Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) does not need to involve in any form of electoral malpractice to win the Aba North and Aba South bye-election. He stated this at Aba North Ward 9 in Osusu Town Hall, while reacting to the allegation that the PDP has hijacked electioneering materials for Ogbor Hill Area and Environs. He said any sane person would know Aba is a Pro-PDP area, adding that the government is committed to record a free, fair and credible election.

  Aba North/Aba South Bye-election: APC Candidate, Mascot Kalu Casts His Vote in Eziama The House of Representatives Candidate of All Progressive Congress, APC, for Aba North and Aba South Federal Constituency, Hon Mascot Uzor Kalu has casted his vote. This newspaper reports that Kalu casted his vote at his Polling Unit, Eziama Unit eleven at 11:20 am . More details soon....