Politics

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abia State, Chief Princewill Ukaegbu has dumped the party for the Action People's Party (APP). Impeccable sources within the party told our correspondent that Ukaegbu is expected to officially make the announcement in a matter of days. Ukaegbu, a former Chairman of Umuahia North Local Government Area is a grassroot politician and mobilizer. A party source told our correspondent that his defection is a big boost to the governoship candidate of the party, Chief Mascot Uzor Kalu. "Mascot is becoming very popular in the governoship race. It is a straight forward…

Concerned Umunneochi leaders of thought have endorsed the Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu for the 2023 Abia North Senatorial District election. According to the leaders, Umunneochi would benefit immensely if Senator Orji Uzor Kalu is re-elected to the Senate in 2023. According to them, Kalu has done well, applauding the former Abia state governor for his “exceptional’’ performance since assuming office as the Senator representing Abia North senatorial district. The group praised Kalu in a statement signed by its Director General, ESV Olekanma and made available to newsmen on Friday morning in Abuja. The group appealed…

A chieftain of the Action Peoples Party (APP) in Abia state, Pastor Okey Umezie, has reacted to a statement credited to Chief Ikechi Emenike, a factional governorship candidate of APC in the state, on allegations that Senator Orji Uzor Kalu sponsored the formation of the Action Peoples Party (APP) and bankrolled his brother, Chief Mascot Uzor Kalu, to contest for the governorship position in the state on the platform of the party. Speaking to journalists in Abuja, Pastor Okey, a close business and political associate of Chief Mascot Uzor Kalu described Ikechi Emenike's allegations as baseless, insipid, and hollow. “My…

Some have called you foolish, dear Sam Omatseye. Others insist that you are plain stupid. There are those who hold you to be beneath contempt. Their howls of execration upon you are in reaction to your August 1, 2022 article entitled Obi-tuary. For me, however, you are a dear friend. Our friendship started in the 1980s at Newswatch magazine where both of us practiced journalism before you travelled to the United States for further studies. It continued upon your return and strengthened to the point that, sometimes, you get the producers of your TV Continental programme to connect me to…

Social media has gone agog over a viral video showing the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu attending a church in Nasarawa state on Wednesday. Nigerian youths have been debating on the internet that the motive was for him and his political party to gain Christians in support of a Muslim-Muslim ticket. Adamu was at the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) church in Awayi, Nasarawa state to grace the funeral ceremony of the late monarch, HRH Aren Eggon, Bala Angbazo. Angbazo died on July 13, 2022, at the age of 89 after 41 years on…

Ukpai Iro Ukpai, has been declared the winner of Abia State New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) Governorship primary election held at Abia State secretariat of the party in Umuahia. Dr. Ukpai from Ohafia (Abia North zone) had over the period been rumoured to be the sole Aspirant for the executive position. Dr Ukpai polled 552 votes to return unopposed, through a voice vote by the 3 man delegates of the party representing the 184 wards of 17 local government of the state. The election was peaceful and rancor free in the presence of INEC officials, DSS and other security agencies,…

A former governorship aspirant of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi, Eze Emmanuel, and former House of Representatives member and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Linus Okorie, as well as three other chieftains of the party, have dumped the main opposition party for the Labour Party, in the State. The defectors which also included a former Commissioner for Education in the state, Prince Chibueze Agbo, has pitched their tent with the Labour Party, and pledged to work to actualize the presidential ambition of the LP presidential candidate, Peter Obi. Announcing their defection to the Labour Party,…

Loyalists of Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, have insisted on the removal of the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Iyorchia Ayu before they can back the presidential ambition of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. Recall that the decision of the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, to pick Governor Ifeanyi Okowa as his running mate, snubbing a selection committee that had recommended Governor Wike, had thrown the main opposition party into crisis. Moves to reconcile aggrieved party members will top the agenda as members of the PDP Board of Trustees (BoT) and National Working Committee (NWC) meet…

Barring any last-minute change, Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State would be announced as the director general of the presidential campaign organisation of the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. THE WHISPERER gathered that Lalong, a Christian, has been pencilled down as the DG following an uproar over the Muslim-Muslim ticket of the APC. Recall that the top hierarchy of the APC had settled for Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State as the DG, while a former National Chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole, was chosen as the chairman of the campaign council. However, it was…