Politics

In a significant development, former Vice-President and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) 2023 presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on Monday, hosted Labour Party (LP) national leader Peter Obi in his Abuja residence. This comes barely 15 months after the last general elections that saw Bola Tinubu of All Progressives Congress (APC) emerged as President. “It was my honour and privilege to host Peter Obi today. -AA,” former vice president, Atiku Abubakar wrote on his verified Facebook page. The former Anambra governor is widely speculated as a top candidate for 2027 following his heroics at the 2023 elections. Both leaders, The Whisperer gathered,…

Prominent legal luminary, Etigwe Uwa SAN FCIArb, has reacted to the recent gale of defections across political parties in Abia state ahead of the 2027 general elections. In a chat with The Whisperer on Thursday afternoon, Uwa said: “All those involved in the recent and ongoing avalanche of defections and those canvassing for disgruntled politicians to jump ship into their own political parties had better have some strong ideological or principle- based reason for doing so else they are all no more than deplorable political prostitutes! “The active defectors and the defection canvassers must be aware that we would ask…

A former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Uche Secondus; and members of the Presidential Campaign Council of the party for the 2023 general elections in Rivers State have declared loyalty and support for President Bola Tinubu and the state governor, Siminalayi Fubara. A former Minister of Transportation and the Director-General, PDP-PCC Rivers State, Dr. Abiye Sekibo, made the declaration during a news briefing in Port Harcourt on Thursday.. Present at the briefing were Secondus; former Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Austin Opara; Celestine Omehia, former deputy governor of the state, Tele Ikuru; Senator Lee Maeba; and former Secretary…