Politics

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has asked northerners to vote for him in 2023, and not for a “Yoruba or Igbo candidate”. “I think what an average northerner needs is somebody from the north who understands other parts of Nigeria and who has been able to build bridges across the country. That is what the north needs,” Mr Abubakar said in a now viral video. A former vice president between 1999 to 2007, Mr Abubakar added that, “It (Northern Nigeria) doesn’t need a Yoruba candidate or an Igbo candidate. This is what the northerners need.…

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and three of his allies – Samuel Ortom (Benue), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia) and Seyi Makinde (Oyo) – are currently in Europe. Daily Trust understands that the governors flew to Madrid, Spain, on Friday night. They left the country hours after Wike held a media chat where he fired salvo at the PDP National Chairman, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, and insisted that he must quit for peace to reign. He also boasted that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar would not win the election if he and his allies leave the party. “The concession we have made is that…

Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike has said the sins of the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Iyorchia Ayu are so grievous that if they are disclosed his children will disown him. “If people know what we know, if we release what we have, Ayu’s children will go to him and say we are no longer your children,” Wike said. Speaking during a live media chat in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Friday, the Governor said Ayu had no locus to stand before Nigerians and campaign for PDP ahead of the 2023 general elections. The Governor maintained the PDP…

Former Vice President National Youth Council of Nigeria NYCN as well President of the Princeton Leadership Forum PLF, Dr Chibuike Echem has dumped the Young Progressive Party, YPP, for the Labour party, LP. Echem, a prominent youth leader from the South east region and aspirant for the house of representatives under the platform of YPP announced his resignation at a press conference tagged state of the nation on Thursday in Abuja The former NYCN Vice President, said he was dumping YPP and joining the Obi-Datti movement because of wanton unchecked corruption, Insecurity, ASUU strike and continues depreciation of Naira against…

The Labour Party (LP) has dismissed the 1, 234 names released to spearhead the Peter Obi and Yusuf Baba-Ahmed Presidential Campaign Council for the 2023 general election. A former Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr Doyin Okupe was named Director-General of the campaign council while a retired Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), Mohammed Zarewa was named as the council’s chairman. Clement Ojukwu and Yunusa Tanko were named the secretary and Chief Spokesperson of the council respectively. The campaign council also has different directorates headed by a director. During the event, the chairman of the…

The Labour Party has named a former Attorney General of Abia State, Chief Umeh Kalu (SAN) as the Abia State Coordinator of Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council. The party also returned Doyin Okupe, former Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to President Goodluck Jonathan as the Director General. The list, which was made up of 1232 members, was unveiled at the World Press Conference in Abuja on Wednesday. The members of the Council were announced by Clement Ojukwu, the Secretary General of Labour Party. Okupe has been acting as the Director General of the Peter Presidential Campaign since May when he…

Ahead of March 2023 gubernatorial election in Abia State, a chieftain of the main opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Mr Ndubisi Etugo Ogah, has approached the Federal High Court, Umuahia, asking the court to stop the PDP and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from fielding Prof Uche Ikonne as the party’s governorship candidate for the election. According to Ogah, his action was to ensure that the agreement on power rotation in the state known as the Abia Charter of Equity was respected by all concerned. In a suit number FHC/UM/CS/63/2022 filed by counsel to Ogah, PC…

A former Deputy Governor of Sokoto State, Mukhtar Shagari, has said that he turned down the offer to be a running mate to Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, for the 2023 general election. According to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain, Obi cannot win the presidential election. Shagari said this when he appeared on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday, insisting that the Labour Party candidate stands no chance in the forthcoming polls. “The Labour party contacted me and requested if I would like to be the Vice Presidential candidate to Peter Obi,” the PDP…

The Presidential Campaign Organisation of Labour Party Candidate, Peter Obi, will be unveiled on Wednesday. This is coming days after Obi had launched an official website to promote his political campaign and solicit funds ahead of the 2023 presidential election. Recall that LP had come under scrutiny over delay in releasing its structured campaign council. An invitation card seen by The Nation tagged “Pre-Campaign World Press Conference”, is expected to take place at Chelsea Hotel in Central Area of Abuja by 12:00 noon. The party is expected to present its list of council nominees. Meanwhile the Director General of the…

The Abia State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says the governoship candidate of the party in Abia State, Chief Ikechi Emenike did not attack the Chief Whip of the Senate Senator Orji Uzor Kalu as reported by an online blog, dumafricanews. The State Publicity Secretary of the party, Chief Okey Ezeala in a statement on Tuesday afternoon accused some desperate politicians of being behind the story. The statement said: "While mutual disagreement is a common political tendency of every democracy, it has become imperative at this moment to officially state for the records: "That neither the State Chairman…