Politics

The Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has been appointed as the Abia state coordinator of the Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council. The All Progressives Congress last night released the final list of its Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) with 31 Directorates and President Muhammadu Buhari as the Chairman and the Presidential standard bearer as the Deputy. The National Chairman of the party, Senator Abdullahi Adamu is the Deputy Chairman (2) and Kasheem Shettima, the Vice-Presidential candidate as Vice Chairman. Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong still retained his position as the Director General of the campaign while former governor…

Charles Aniagwu, spokesman of the PDP presidential campaign council, says Nyesom Wike rejected zoning of PDP governorship ticket in Rivers in 2015. Aniagwu said this during an interview on Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), on Friday. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been in crisis since the election of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar as the standard bearer of the party. It got worse when Wike, whom many thought would be chosen as the party’s vice-presidential candidate, was ignored by Atiku for feanyi Okowa, governor of Delta. Speaking on the crisis rocking the party, Aniagwu said Wike cannot compare the zoning formular…

The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Friday, revealed that the Peoples Democratic Party’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, is eying the Secretary to Government of the Federation position should the party win the 2023 presidential election. “Some people have been given positions as we speak. Ayu wants to become the SFG. These are things happening in the party that we can’t say in public,” Wike said during a media parly in Porth Harcourt on Friday. This is as the governor boasted that though no one was above the party, those who left the party during the height of its crisis…

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has revealed that he was aware of the underground moves of the Delta State governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, to become the vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 elections. Speaking during a media chat on Friday, Wike said that though he was aware, he expected good sense to prevail in the party. One of the journalists interviewing him, Gbenga Aruleba, pointed out that perhaps, he (Wike) had not been observing the patterns as Okowa was the only South South governor who didn’t buy a nomination form to vie for the presidency…

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar has declared that the PDP National Chairman, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu won't resign as being demanded by the Rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike and other PDP Governors in his camp. Atiku, in a reaction to the withdrawal of Wike and his loyalists from the PDP Presidential Campaign Council, urged the aggrieved party chieftains to have a rethink and retrace their steps In a statement on Wednesday, Atiku said: "On the calls for the resignation or removal from office of our national chairman, however, I must reiterate what I have said severally…