Politics

Abia State Governorship candidate of Labour Party (LP), Dr. Alex Otti has given reason why he left his former party, the All Progressives Congress and joined LP to contest the governorship election in 2023. Speaking during an interactive session with some journalists at his country home, Umuru Nvosi, in Isiala Ngwa South Local Government Area of Abia State, the former bank executive said he left APC when he discovered the governorship ticket of the party was zoned to one person. “I left APC because they were not in the mood to conduct primaries. A document was leaked where they zoned…

A high-level meeting of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kano on Monday turned bloody as the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Alhassan Doguwa attacked the deputy governorship candidate of the party, Murtala Garo. The meeting, held at the residence of the Deputy Governor Nasir Gawuna, was organised to review the successes and failures recorded during the visit of the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu. THE WHISPERER gathered that the incident occured when Mr Doguwa, who was not invited to the meeting, went to see the chairman of the party, Abdullahi Abbas. According to Daily Nigerian, upon arrival…

The Orji Uzor Kalu Campaign Organization has said that the Chief Whip of the Senate will win the 2023 Abia North Senatorial election with a landslide. The campaign organization based their optimism on the excellent performance of Kalu at the Red Chamber in the last three and half years and his capacity to deliver more if re-elected in 2023. Spokesman of the campaign organization, Sunny Idika in a chat with newsmen in Umuahia, declared that Kalu is the man to beat in the senatorial poll, saying, “Kalu is going to win, even landslide as he did in 2019. The voters…

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has arrived in Washington D.C in United States of America for political campaigns. The former vice-president was welcomed by the former Senate President, Bukola Saraki; member representing Arochukwu/Ohafia Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Uko Nkole; Dino Melaye, Phrank Shuaibu, amongst other aides. See the photos:

Former Ondo Governor Olusegun Mimiko has rejected his appointment as leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Council in the State. He also said he won’t abandon his support for Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike on the call for equity within the party. According to The Nation, Mimiko was named Leader of the just constituted Ondo PDP Presidential Campaign Council billed for inauguration on Thursday. But the former Governor, in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media and Digital Communications, John Paul Akinduro, said he had been inundated with calls and messages from political associates on whether…

A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has nullified all the primaries conducted by All Progressive Congress (APC) in the state Recall that some aggrieved APC members loyal to the Governorship Candidate of SDP, Senator Magnus Abe, had approached the Court challenging the conduct of the Primary election with claims of exclusion from the delegates’ primaries conducted in the State. Detail later…

A member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council, Femi Fani-Kayode said on Monday that the demons he claimed were in the ruling party relocated to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as soon as he joined the APC in September 2021. “The APC of the past is not the APC of today…The demons that were in the APC at that time have simply relocated and gone into the PDP,” he said on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Monday. “My views were my views then and things changed when a new leadership came into the party, a leadership…