Politics

The judicial trenches are certainly not unfamiliar terrain for Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 25 February general election. About 20 years ago, Mr Obi contested the 19 April, 2003 governorship election in Anambra State on the crest of newly registered All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). After Chris Ngige of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was declared winner in the race by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mr Obi rejected the result and went to court for redress where he recorded a historic success. On Monday 13 March, Mr Obi stated that he…

Enugu State, OBIDIENTS have done their primary duty which was to vote for the best candidate in the last presidential election. We voted massively for Peter Obi because of his competencies, skills, personality, and merit, these are the measures by which Obidients support each candidate, anything short of that, Obidients will not support and will not be part of it. Obidient is not a political party. Obidients vote only for competencies. Obidients is not Labour Party The difference between Chimaroke Nnamani. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi. Edeoga, other candidates, and Peter Mba are very clear. Peter Mba is a stand-out, shining armor. He…

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democ ratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has urged the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, to stop speaking while he is under the influence of alcohol. Wike had while addressing supporters at the Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State on Friday stated that he was drinking a 40-year-old whiskey when Atiku led protesters to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) headquarters in Abuja in a protest. The PDP candidate had led other leaders of the party to protest alleged irregularities that marred the conduct of the presidential election. The country’s main opposition party had…

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…