Politics

Onochie Osheokwu, the Senior Special Assistant on Youth Development to Ifeanyi Okowa, the governor of Delta State and vice presidential aspirant of the People Democratic Party (PDP), has tendered his resignation letter to the governor in order to fully support the presidential candidate of the Labour Party(LP), Mr Peter Obi, in the forthcoming general election. The resignation was contained in a letter signed by Mr Onochie and forwarded to the governor through the Secretary to the State Government. According to him, the motive behind the resignation, which takes immediate effect, is to join the teeming supporters of Peter Obi under…

Women on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC in their numbers staged a rally in support of the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in Imo state. The women’s wing of the APC presidential campaign, South-East zone gathered at the Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu Square in Owerri, the Imo State capital to drum up support for their party’s candidate. Chioma Uzodimma, South-East Women’s Coordinator for the APC Presidential Campaign and wife to Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State, described the rally as a preamble. She urged the women to get their permanent voter cards and on “that…

Ahead of the 2023 general elections, former and incumbent governors are already positioning themselves to emerge the president of the 10th Senate. No fewer than 28 serving and former governors in the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are in the senatorial race for their constituencies. While the North has 18 serving and former governors competing for the seat, the south has 11 serving and former governors. The former and serving governors contesting in the 2023 Senatorial election are: Adams Oshiomhole (Edo), Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto), Abdulaziz Yari (Zamfara), Kabiru Gaya (Kano), Abubakar Bagudu (Kebbi), Chimaroke Nnamani (Enugu),…

A massive crowd of Ndigbo in Lagos State APC on Tuesday stormed Ikeja for a town hall meeting in support of Sen. Bola Tinubu, the party’s 2023 presidential candidate and Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the crowd,comprising APC members of Igbo extraction only, converged at the Blue Roof of the Lagos Television (LTV) for the meeting. NAN reports that the group was made up of Ndigbo from the 20 Local Government Areas and the 37 Local.Council Development Areas of the state. NAN also reports that it was a carnival of sorts as members of…

By Odo Ijere I have told all who care to listen that power must revert back to the South by head or by tail on the 29th of May, 2023. The constitution has guaranteed that conclusion through either APC or Labour Party who consciously ceded their presidential candidates to the South. These two mainstream political platforms were sensitive enough to pander to the feelings of the citizenry who are looking forward and waiting patiently for a paradigm shift of political power to the south to heave a sigh of relief after 8 tyranical years of power domiciliation in the North.…

With the massive pre-campaign rallies organised by the youths across the major cities in the country, which were not largely influenced by monetary inducements, the supporters of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, have elevated a political party without formidable structures to a mass movement, Ejiofor Alike writes Political pundits were anxious to know the direction of a former Anambra State Governor, Mr. Peter Obi, when he announced in late May that he had dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and had also withdrawn from the race for the party’s presidential ticket. Director General of the…