Politics

Convener of Lagos4Lagos, Olajide Adediran, aka Jandor, has won the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial primary election held yesterday in Lagos to emerge the party’s candidate for the 2023 governorship election in Lagos. Earlier before the commencement of the process, four aspirants had stepped down from the race, leaving the two to slug it out. Addressing delegates before voting started, thanked the aspirants that stepped down, saying that all of them were qualified to govern Lagos. He said: “I thank my colleagues who stepped down. I acknowledge their sacrifices of keeping the hope of PDP alive before my arrival. My…

Ahead of 2023 governorship election in Abia State, a political think tank group known Abia North Stakeholders for Peace and Development (ANSPEN), has resolved to support human rights lawyer, Etigwe Uwa (SAN) to emerge as the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in the 2023 governoship election in Abia State. The group comprising political leaders from the zone, technocrats, scholars, clerics, royal fathers in conjunction with other community associations in the zone such as Abia North Peace Foundation, ANPF, Ohafia Youths Initiative, said the decision to unite politically and adopt Etigwe Uwa (SAN), ahead of 2023 APGA governorship…

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…