Politics

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday met the Abia State factional governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Ikechi Emenike at the presidential villa. Emenike was accompanied by his wife and Ambassador of Nigeria to the United States of America, Dr. Uzoma Emenike. Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the president on Media and Publicity confirmed the meeting on his official Facebook page on Thursday evening. He wrote: "President Buhari receives in audience H.E. Dr (Mrs) Uzoma Emenike, Ambassador of Nigeria to the United State of America and her Spouse Abia State APC Gubernatorial Candidate in State House on 12th…

Supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and his running mate, Kahim Shettima on Wednesday stormed the campaign rally of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at Michael Okpara Square, Enugu, creating a fanfare atmosphere. Party members in the State trooped out in their thousands to the venue of the rally hours before Tinubu arrived. The presence of the supporters caused heavy traffic gridlock within the Independence Layout, venue of the event. As early as 9 am, the entire area was packed with supporters clad in different colours and brooms, chanting solidarity songs for Tinubu and…

The Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu says the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu will win the next general election, while the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar will come a distant second. Kalu, a former governor of Abia State stated this while fielding questions on the Channels Television’s Political Paradigm programme aired on Tuesday. “Let me give you what I think will come: Tinubu will come distant first and Atiku will come distant second and others will follow,” he said. Senator Kalu also said the South-East zone does not…

I have always known that public service in Abia and other States in Nigeria is not a tea party especially if you are occupying a strategic position. You would be faced with lots of issues especially from those who feel threatened by your position, moreso when you refuse to compromise your integrity and play to their self - serving rules of engagement. Having served different governments outside Abia State in the past, I have always enmeshed myself in the Supreme God as the only true God who saves. My trial moment came around April 2018. It was a weekend of…

An Abuja based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Mohammed Idris says the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu will shock Nigerians with massive infrastructural development in the Southeast and Northwest geopolitical zones. Addressing journalists on Sunday at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja, Idris said his members were delighted to identify with the APC presidential candidate as the foremost national political leader in contemporary Nigeria and political dispensation, “who is in the forefront of providing good governance and dividends of democracy in our developing society.” Idris stated that having carefully extolled Tinubu’s visionary leadership qualities, forthrightness, and uncommon…