Politics

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…

A frontline governorship aspirant for Abia State 2023 gubernatorial election, Chief Kalu Idika Okwara, has been endorsed by a group of New Media Influencers in the People's Democratic Party, PDP. The group announced the endorsement on Friday, in Abuja after a closed door meeting with the oil and gas expert at Wadata Plaza. According to a release by Chief Obadiah Mbila, the group promised to support the aspiration of Idika Okwara in succeeding Governor Okezie Ikpeazu in 2023. He said, "Ohafia born Chief Kalu Idika Okwara, Udomba 1 of Amibe, and a frontline PDP Abia State Gubernatorial Aspirant has been…

Omisore to contest APC National Secretary, submits nomination form. Omisore added that he is ready for the next level of prosperity, delivering democracy to Nigeria and Nigerians within a peaceful context. A former Senator and Osun State Deputy Governor, Iyiola Omisore, has submitted his nomination form to contest as National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC). According to a personally signed press release obtained by THE WHISPERER Friday evening, Omisore revealed that he is looking forward to a perfectionist, efficient and effective management of the national secretariat of the APC. Omisore added that he is ready for the next…

The battle over who will succeed Engr. Chinedum Orji, in the Abia State House of Assembly, to represent Umuahia Central State constituency is currently raging silently. It is a contest that is attracting strong permutations, especially, considering the general belief that the current Abia State Speaker raised the bar of representation at that level through his policies and programmes that reverberated beyond the boundaries of Abia State, across to Nigerians. He was christened "the speaking speaker", to sum it up. To make the race more competitive, Rt. Hon Chinedum Orji had at a recent meeting with his constituency’s stakeholders declared…