Politics

Mohammed Abacha, a son of the late Nigerian military leader Sani Abacha, has emerged winner of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, primary election in Kano. The returning officer, Barrister Amina Garba, declared Mr Abacha winner after polling 736 votes to defeat his closest rival, Jafar Sani-Bello, who scored 710 votes. The chairman the electoral committee, Mohammed Jamu, said their primaries was legally conducted with validly-elected delegates and supervised by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, police and State Security Service operatives. The election was supervised by six INEC officials, including the Deputy Director in charge of Election and Party Monitoring…

The immediate past Rivers Accountant-General, Siminialayi Fubara, has emerged the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2023 General Election. Fubara, who hails from the riverine Opobo-Nkoro Local Government Area, scored 721 votes to defeated 15 other aspirants with Isaac Kamalu coming a distant second with 86 votes. The Chairman of the Electoral Committee, Prof. Walter Mbotu, declared Fubara the winner of the primary election. While Felix Obuah got 2 votes, David Brigs 4, West Morgan 4, Tammy Danagogo 36 and George Kelly 37, others scored zero vote. About 898 delegates assembled at the Dr. Obi Wali…

A frontline presidential aspirant of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, Peter Obi, has dumped the People's Democratic Party, PDP. Obi announced his resignation in a letter addressed to the National Chairman of the PDP. In the letter, the former Anambra governor gave different reasons for his withdrawal from the presidential race. THE WHISPERER learnt on Wednesday that the former Anambra State governor has perfected plans to defect to the Labour Party for good, due to the politics of the PDP delegates’ election. The Coalition for Peter Obi (COP) had piled pressure on the former governor to leave the PDP in order…

A Presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, Peter Obi, has announced his decision to dump the Peoples Democratic Party. Director General of the Peter Obi Presidential Campaign Organisation, Dr. Doyin Okupe, made this public after submitting a copy of Obi’s resignation letter to the PDP National Secretariat, Abuja, on Wednesday. He said, “Happenings” within the party currently does not give him the space to fully express himself.

Former Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, has withdrawn from the Enugu State governorship race. Ekweremadu said he would not participate in today’s governorship primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party in Enugu State. This was contained in a statement made available to our correspondent on Wednesday morning by his campaign organisation. Ekweremadu, who is currently representing Enugu West Senatorial District at the Senate, was a foremost governorship aspirant in the state before announcing his withdrawal. On Tuesday, the former governor of old Anambra State Senator Jim Nwobodo had announced that Enugu East Senatorial zone had adopted Dr Peter…

With a few hours to the governorship primary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abia State, an internal crisis and a controversy over the selection of its three-member ad-hoc delegates for each ward is yet to be buried. The delegates will vote at the primaries to nominate the party’s candidates for the 2023 general election. The PDP ward congresses were scheduled to hold in the state on April 30 until they were cancelled due to a court order. Although they were re-scheduled for May 4 after the order was vacated, they failed to hold because of a public holiday…

Abia political stakeholders have urged political parties in Abia state not to field candidates against the Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu. The group included traditional rulers, youth groups, Abia professionals, academics, prominent members of the political class, and top businessmen, under the aegis of Abia North Stakeholders for Peace and Development (ANSPEN). In a statement issued on Tuesday, made available to newsmen, the group drummed support for the re-election of Kalu who is the Chief Whip of the Senate. The leader of the group, Dr. Kalu Ncheghe, said that indices showed that the Senate Chief Whip…

Withdrawal From the APC Governorship Primaries. Sequel to the memo from the National Legal Adviser to the Chairman of the APC dated May 18, 2022 which imposed a strange sharing formular on APC aspirants in Abia state, more than 90% of the aspirants, leaders and stakeholders of the party opposed the decision and subsequently appealed to the leadership of the APC to allow an open contest that would give room for the emergence of popular candidates who would also enjoy the support of party members and the electorate during the general election. Unfortunately, the party stuck to its decision to…

A House of Representatives aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Philip Okwuada on Monday fainted after losing the party’s primaries in Delta State. It was learnt that Okwuada was bidding to represent Ika Federal constituency in the Green chamber of the National Assembly. In a video credited to Flag News, Okwuada slumps while observing a live interview shortly after the exercise. Okwuada was beaten in the primary election by Victor Nwokolo, who had 75 votes. Meanwhile, Okwuada only managed 7 votes. However, efforts made by SaharaReporters to know Okwuada’s current health status were not successful.…

Hon. Mosco Ukoha Kalu Ofon, has picked the nomination and expression of interest forms of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) to contest the House of Assembly seat for Ohafia South State Constituency in 2023. He obtained the forms at the party secretariat in Umuahia on Tuesday afternoon. Ofon, a grassroot politician and founder of Ohafia Vanguard for Equity was equally screened and cleared as the consensus candidate of the party. Recall THE WHISPERER had reported that Ofon resigned his membership of the People's Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, citing irregularities in the party as his reason for defecting. Ofon announced…