Politics

In an interview with THE WHISPERER on Friday afternoon, Chief Umeh Kalu (SAN), a former Attorney General of Abia State has applauded the performance of Governor Alex Otti of Abia State. On Governor Otti's performance, he said: "100 days may not be enough time to make any meaningful assessment given the enormity of the problems we have in Abia State for those who understand. "I understand what is on ground. They have taken off; he has been able to appoint his commissioners and some principal officials of government. But you can still say that we have some kind of problems…

Vice President Kashim Shettima has said that he would buy the former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar broilers and goats so that he can rear them when he retires. He said this after the ruling of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja. Answering a question Shettima said: "Atiku Abubakar is an elderstatesman that i hold in very high esteem. Anybody who knows the socio-cultural interactions between the Fulanis and the Kanuris in the North will know that i have the liberty to hold all the insults in him and.... We are not going to retire him to Dubai or Morocco,…

The Kogi State Election Petition Tribunal on Wednesday nullified the victory of Sen. Abubakar Ohere as the winner of the Kogi Central senatorial election. The court further declared Natasha Akpoti-Uduagan as the actual winner of the February senatorial election. The Tribunal Chairman, Justice K. A. Orjiako, who read the unanimous judgment of the three-man panel, said Ohere results were inflated in nine polling units of Ajaokuta Local Government Area (LGA) while that of Natasha was intentionally reduced in the areas by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as well as three other polling units result that was deliberately not entered…

The Julius Abure-led National Working Committee, NWC, of the Labour Party has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, of sponsoring dissidents to destabilise the party. National Secretary of the LP, Mallam Umar Farouk, at a press conference held at the party’s National Secretariat, Abuja, yesterday, explained that the party was well aware of the desperate plot by the ruling party to cause confusion in the Labour Party in a bid to scuttle its chances in the forthcoming Governorship Election in Imo State. According to him, the press conference was organised to clear the air on yet another attempt by…

The leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has inaugurated Hon. Donatus Nwankpa as the National Welfare Secretary of the party. The party had announced Nwankpa, a former Abia state chairman of the party alongside other officers to fill the vacant positions of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) and zonal offices of the party. Ali Bukar Dalori from Borno State was named as deputy national chairman, North (North East Zone) of the party. Dalori replaced Senator Abubakar Kyari who later served as acting national chairman of the party before he became the minister of Agriculture. The party also named…