Politics

Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has declared that the candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the state, Dr. Alex Otti, has no similarities in character with the Presidential candidate of the party, Mr. Peter Obi. Ikpeazu, who spoke with journalists in Aba, said while Obi was noted for his modest, frugal and simple lifestyle, the LP candidate in the state was the opposite. He said that Abia voters were aware that there was no connection between Obi and Otti’s schools of thought. He also said that the move by Otti and the LP in the state to capitalise…

Outsiders and resident political neophytes have quaked and shivered over the noises generated by the activities of social media crusaders on who leads the pack of four frontrunners in the governorship election of Enugu State. The attendant disturbances have snowballed into name calling and charges, often accentuated in denial of profiles of the contenders, to score some cheap points. Those who had been of the Ebeano political organization now deny their membership and join in clubbing it to the ground. The ones who are kit and kin and thorough bred Gburugburu is swearing to high heavens like Peter before the…

The Change Abia Organisation has endorsed Chief Okechukwu Ahiwe of the PDP for the 2023 governorship election slated for March 18th. The endorsement took place at emergency meeting of the group held at the Heaven is Real Country home of Ochiagha Reagan Ufomba on Thursday and was attended by the leadership and seventeen local government area cordinators of the state, and chaired by the leader, Ochiagha Reagan Ufomba. The Change Abia Organisation which is made up of over 150 solid affiliate groups is reputed for endorsing candidates with capacity to win elections since 1999. Criteria for the endorsement are, soundness…

The deputy governorship candidate of the African Democratic Party in Abia, Ifeoma Okoya-Thomas, says she has dumped the ADP for the Labour Party. Ms Okoya-Thomas disclosed this during an interactive session with journalists in Umuahia on Wednesday. “I have chosen, at this time, to declare for the Labour Party and the person of Otti because we have the same vision to change the narrative of Abia. I discovered we have a similar vision, which is to propagate the cause of Abia,” Ms Okoya-Thomas. “I had the vision, and I want to be part of the mission to liberate the state…

The Convener of Abia Infrastructure Mandate (AIM), Chief Odo Ijere has condemned the Abia State governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ikechi Emenike, saying his ambition is dead on arrival. According to Ijere, "Emenike’s candidacy is imperiled, doomed and refuses to fly", and as such will be an exercise in futility. Ijere, in statement signed by him on Thursday morning, cautioned Abians to be weary of the Ohuhu born politician. He said: "Ikechi Emenike's two thousand worded CV cannot fetch him acceptability and electability. Emenike's candidacy is imperiled, doomed and refuses to fly. "This is one bad product…

The campaign organization of the Accord governorship candidate, Bishop Dr Emeka Nwankpa, has reacted to the 'resignation and defection' of Prince Okpere Udo, its deputy governorship candidate. In a press statement released to newsmen, the group described the erstwhile deputy governorship candidate as a sell-out, and dismissed the media report that there is trouble in the party which it described as 'one big united family'. The group went further to state that such a move by Okpere Udo, who had enjoyed the love and support of Bishop Emeka Nwankpa, was nothing short of betrayal and stab in the back occasioned…

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, was conspicuously absent at the International Conference Centre (ICC) Abuja venue of the presentation of Certificates of Return to Members-elect of the House of Representatives, by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday. Gbajabiamila was reelected to represent his Surulere 1 federal constituency of Lagos State for the 6th consecutive time during the just-concluded February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections. He polled 19,717 votes to defeat his closest opponent, Bosun Jeje of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), who scored 5,121 votes. Leadership, however, gathered that the Speaker may…

As contenders for the Senate presidency and other key positions in the 10th National Assembly intensify their bid to lobby senators-elect and party stakeholders, the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is making frantic efforts to douse tension. Leadership gathered that the leadership of the governing party has assured the lawmakers angling to become principal officers in the federal legislature of fairness as the party concludes arrangement to zone the positions. This is just as the governing party is seeking an audience with the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, over the zoning arrangement. Findings by this paper showed that lobbying…