Politics

The Rivers State Governor has threatened to help the Peoples Democratic Party lose the 2023 presidential election. The governor issued the threat at the commissioning of the internal road in Omerelu community in Ikwerre local government area of Rivers on Thursday. The governor who was responding to recent comments by the National Chairman of the PDP, Iyorchia Ayu said the chairman is exhibiting arrogance. He said “Doctor Ayu said we are children. Yes, the children brought you from the gutter to make you chairman. “Now we have seen that you don’t want the party to win election, we will help…

In continuation of his LGA verification tour, the Abia state APP's governorship candidate, Chief Mascot Uzor Kalu, and his team stormed Aba North today for a brief town hall meeting. The verification tour, which kicked-started yesterday, is to assess the preparedness of the party for the upcoming elections in the state and to examine the growth of the party by the governorship candidate. In what was perceptible evidence that the party is growing at a geometrical rate barely a year after its formation in Abia state, the hall was filled to the brim with elated party members that came to…

The National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party(PDP), Iyorchia Ayu, has said he will not resign his position because he sees no reason for him to do so. Mr Ayu stated this in an interview with BBC Hausa Service on Wednesday. He has been under pressure from a group of governors and former governors of the party, led by Rivers governor, Nyesom Wike, to step down and allow a southerner take his position. The governors had been complaining against the imbalance in the leadership of the party in which Mr Ayu, the presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and the heads of…

The Labour party says it is not a social media party, vowing to win the 2023 elections. The National Publicity Secretary of the Party, Comrade Arabambi Abayomi, who stated this in Lagos, said there are more than 22 million registered voters who have indicated interest in the party. He said Nigerians are yearning for change as the ruling All progressives Congress, APC, has failed to meet the expectations of the people. “We are not a social media political party. The people that are conducting our rallies across the states are human beings. We are the new phenomenon, the uncommon political…

Fellow Nigerians, let me make a few clarifications before going into the nitty-gritty of this epistle. Today, I’m wearing two caps on this page. I’m a journalist as well as a politician. I have been both for decades, although I remain pre-eminently a journalist. Also, I have been a non-partisan politician for a long time until recently. Even then I have seen it fit to support candidates from the two mainstream political parties depending on the capacity and performance of the ruling government party. Since this is my column, it is expected that it will reflect my personal opinion and…

A former Kano State Governor, Ibrahim Shekarau has officially returned to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Shekarau returned to the PDP from the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, on Monday in Kano State. The former Senator was received by Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the party’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu and members of the National Working Committee, NWC. Shekarau left the NNPP two months after joining from the All Progressives Congress (APC). Shekarau, the lawmaker representing Kano Central, was a former Nigerian minister of education and two-term Governor of Kano. He was one of…

Nigerians in the U.S. are making plans to hold a debate for all the presidential candidates contesting the February 25, 2023, presidential election. The presidential debate, tagged ‘The Diaspora Listens’, is scheduled to hold on November 26 virtually, according to a statement on Sunday signed by Olayinka DanSalami, on behalf of the organising committee. The Organisation for the Advancement of Nigerians (OAN, Inc.) will organise the debate in collaboration with 15 other Nigerian partner organisations in the U.S. Mr DanSalami said the presidential candidates had been invited to attend the debate. “The United States hosts one of the largest numbers…