Politics

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, Thursday afternoon, announced Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, as his running mate for the 2023 election, thus bringing a climax to the suspense and speculations that had attended the choice for weeks. Mr Abubakar, a former vice president of Nigeria between 1999 and 2007, made the announcement during a meeting attended by PDP executives and top stakeholders, including the party’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, at the Wadata House, Wuse headquarters of the party in Abuja. Implications of Okowa’s choice The choice of Mr Okowa as the vice-presidential candidate throws…

Iyom Bianca Ojukwu, the widow of the late Biafran leader, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, has shared the moment, she encountered the ‘stingy’ nature of the Presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi. The Catholic priest and Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry Enugu, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, had on Wednesday, described Obi as a stingy man and his comments elicited harsh reactions from his supporters. In a post on her Facebook page titled, ’On Peter Obi’s supposed ‘Stinginess’...’ the matriarch, recalled when Obi, then, a governor of Anambra State, visited Texas and had refused to buy a designer suit for an event…

Southern Progressives Assembly, a socio-political group has commended the Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu for backing the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The group in a statement signed by its President, Boma Godson, on Thursday morning applauded Kalu for being a committed party man. He said Senator Kalu's opinion on APC's Muslim/Muslim ticket for the presidential election was the only way the party could retain power in 2023, noting that with Tinubu wife being a Christian, Nigerians should not bother about any religious conflict. "Senator Kalu has said it all. Our…

The opposition Peoples Democratic Party will on Thursday (today) screen nominees for the vice-presidential position. A chieftain of the party, who confided in one of our correspondents on Wednesday, said contrary to reports, three candidates were shortlisted for the position, not one as reported by some newspapers. According to him, those shortlisted include Delta State Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa; his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike and the Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel. This came to the fore on Wednesday as supporters of Okowa and Wike disagreed over the party’s VP slot. There were reports on Wednesday that a committee…