Politics

The spokesman of the Atiku Campaign Organisation, Daniel Bwala, has accused Governor Nyesom Wike of frustrating efforts by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to micro-zone its presidential ticket to the southeast. Bwala made the comment on Friday, hours after the Rivers State leader briefed the press where he opened up on the crisis rocking the PDP since its presidential primary election in May. “The whole gamut of power zoning here or there started with Governor Wike. He virtually had everything he wanted. He brought this chairman (Ayu). When a discussion was being done in the party that power should be…

Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike has alleged the National Chairman of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) Senator Iyorchia Ayu worked against his emergence as presidential candidate of the party. Ayu, he alleged, called many presidential aspirants to withdraw for Atiku Abubakar, who eventually picked the ticket. Wike in a media chat on Friday morning monitored by THE WHISPERER mentioned some of those Ayu contacted to withdraw for Atiku as Bauchi Governor Bala Mohammed; his Sokoto counterpart, Aminu Tambuwal and former Senate President Bukola Saraki. He alleged Ayu also threatened to resign as chairman if he emerged the candidate, stating the National…

The choice of Orji Uzor Kalu as senator representing Abia North senatorial district has been described as the best decision taken by constituents of the zone in the 2019 general election. The constituents in Umunneochi Local Government made the declaration during the mid-term constituency report tour organised by the Chief Whip of the Senate to meet and interact with electorates in all the wards in the five local government areas of Abia North. Kalu said the exercise is to ascertain the impact of his leadership in terms of human resources empowerment and infrastructural projects on his constituents and to also…

Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State and a former governor of the state, Orji Kalu, have made the final list of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for the 2023 senatorial contest in Abia. While Mr Ikpeazụ was listed as candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Abia South; Mr Kalu, currently the Chief Whip of the Senate, was named as the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Abia North. Also, a former Minority Leader of the Senate, Enyinnaya Abaribe, was listed as the All Progressives Grand Alliance, (APGA) candidate for Abia South while Mao Ohuabunwa was named PDP…