Politics

There are feelers that stakeholders in the North, on Monday, opted for Former Borno State governor, Senator Kashim Shettima, as running mate to the standard bearer of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu. A source told Daily Independent that stakeholders in the region believes that the former Borno State governor is a better option than the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara and the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, who were reportedly in the race. Speaking under condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media, the National Working Committee…

The ruling All Progressives Congress may soon reveal its vice-presidential candidate in the 2023 elections. The presidential candidate of the party, Bola Tinubu, will on Tuesday meet with the party’s stakeholders, including governors and thereafter announce his running mate on Wednesday, The Punch reports. Meanwhile, according to the report, the APC governors and other stakeholders had agreed that the North-East should produce the vice-presidential candidate of the party. Prospective candidates are Kebbi State Governor, Atiku Bagudu; a former Governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima; the Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje and the Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong. The resolve of…

Labour Party candidate for Arochukwu/Ohafia federal constituency, Mr Ibe Okwara Osonwa has declared that his ambition is triggered by his passion to give quality and effective representations to the good but deprived people of Arochukwu/Ohafia federal constituency in House of Representatives. Osonwa stated this while interacting with members of Ndi Ibe Ohafia Development Union (NDU), Abuja Branch on Sunday afternoon. He lamented that the bane of the Federal Constituency since the political dispensation has been unpatriotic representations and vowed to change the status quo for the betterment of the populace. The candidate insisted that he has the Midas touch for…

Details of the demand made by Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, to support the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, in the 2023 election has emerged. According to an online blog, TheWhistler, Wike, who was the runner-up in the recently held presidential primary of the PDP, has demanded to be paired with Atiku as vice-presidential candidate to give his support to the party’s flagbearer ahead of the February 25 poll. At the keenly contested presidential primary held on May 28, the Rivers governor had scored 237 votes to emerge second position behind Atiku who polled…

Chief Francis Barthlomew Chima popularly known as  OmoBarca, a frontline House of Representatives candidate on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party for Ajeromi-Ifelodun constitutency in Lagos State, has denied allegations of violence, bribery and presentation of fake delegates during the re-run primaries. OmoBarca who was declared winner during the May 22nd PDP primaries in Lagos State told newsmen that he was shocked by the false accusations made against him by his opponent Rita Orji in Tribune Newspaper. Rita Orji and her co-travellers had told the newspaper: "OmoBarca presented a fake delegate list during the re-run primaries, when the Returning…

A political think tank group, Abia Progressives Arise Initiative (APAI) has praised the Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu for his performance at the last special national convention of the All Progressives Congress, APC, saying the former Abia state governor demonstrated capacity, courage and the resilient spirit of an Igbo man. According to the group, "Kalu fought so hard to integrate Ndigbo into mainstream politics by backing Ahmad Lawan in the presidential contest." Coordinator of the group, Chief Maxwell Onubogu, in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday, said Kalu was the sole voice of Ndigbo at…

A wave of defection has hit the Kebbi State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the party has lost five members of the National Assembly and three members of the state assembly to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The mass defection to the PDP began after the primary election of APC as most of the decampees were disenchanted with the manner in which the party conducted its primary elections. Senator Adamu Aliero of Kebbi Central Senatorial District, Senate leader, Dr. Yahaya Abdullahi of Kebbi North Senatorial District as well as member of House of Representatives, representing Kalgo/Bunza Federal…