Politics

2023: Kalu Idika Okwara's Governorship Ambition Gets Boost From Abia South. Onuoha noted that Idika Okwara's wealth of experience, integrity and capacity was needed to help the party retain Abia state. As political activities leading to the 2023 general election gather momentum, the governorship ambition of Chief Kalu Idika Okwara to emerge as the next governor of Abia state has gathered some tonic in the southern senatorial district of the state following his endorsement by some Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders as well as community leaders from the area. Apart from expressing support for Idika Okwara, the political stakeholders, who…

The Court of Appeal sitting in Owerri, Imo State, Monday, confirmed Dr. Kingsley Ononogbu as the authentic Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Abia State. This is following the dismissal of a motion filed by Donatus Nwankpa, Iheanacho Obioma, and others seeking the nullification of the special congress of APC, held in Abia state on January 8, 2022, in which Dr Ononugbu was elected as the Chairman of APC in Abia State to replace late Enyinnaya Harbour. The Appeal Court presided over by Hon. Justice R.N Pemu, alongside two other justices in a unanimous ruling, dismissed the said motion…

Court sacks 20 Cross River lawmakers for defecting to APC. The lawmakers were members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, before their defection. A Federal High Court in Abuja has sacked 20 members of the Cross River State House of Assembly for defecting to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. The lawmakers were members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, before their defection. The court declared that the lawmakers, having abandoned the political party that sponsored them to power, ought to vacate their seats. Justice Taiwo Taiwo gave the judgment in a suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/975/2021, which was filed by the…

Former Senate President, and the Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Board of Trustees, BoT, Dr. Adolphus Wabara, has warned that PDP might get a protest vote in Abia in 2023, should the party fail to cede its governorship ticket to his Ukwa clan or Abia North zone. He argued that if Ukwa clan should not be considered because it belongs to Abia South senatorial zone where power currently resides, “then power should move back to Abia North where it started from in 1999”. Wabara specifically warned that any attempt to make another Ngwa man succeed the incumbent Governor…

APC Convention: Modu Sheriff steps down from race. In a brief chat Sunday in Abuja, Sheriff said he was stepping aside due to the zoning arrangement in the party which has ceded the office to North Central. Former Governor of Borno state, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff has stepped down from the national chairmanship race ahead of Saturday’s national convention of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC. In a brief chat Sunday in Abuja, Sheriff said he was stepping aside due to the zoning arrangement in the party which has ceded the office to North Central. Sheriff who is from the…