Politics

The Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has forwarded the authentic list of statutory delegates from Abia State to the national leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, ahead of the party's national convention slated for 26th March, 2022. The former governor of Abia State in a letter addressed to the National Chairman Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Governor Mai Mala Buni, and members of the planning committee said "the motive is necessary to totally avoid the infiltration and importation of fictitious names and designations by some overzealous party men." Kalu, in the acknowledged letter, sighted by our…

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has finally informed President Muhammadu Buhari of his presidential ambition, Daily Trust learnt from credible sources. The sources said the VP told the president of his desire to take over from him at the expiration of his tenure in 2023 to consolidate the achievements they recorded since they took over from the opposition PDP in 2015. With the intent, which had not been made public, the vice president will struggle for the ticket of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) with the likes of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu who had a few months ago visited the…

The crisis between Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki and his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike, deepened yesterday. Obaseki took exception to Wike’s attacks on him and his deputy, Philip Shaibu, saying that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is not the personal property of the Rivers governor. The Edo governor said he will not accept political bullies and overlords, reminding Wike how he had dethroned bullies and high handed leaders. Obaseki emphasised that Edo cannot be bought. In an advertorial in The Nation today, the Edo governor accused Wike of unguarded and disruptive tendencies, urging party leaders to call him to…

The Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, has described as unfortunate, allegations against him by the former director general of the Progressives Governors Forum.Dr. Salihu Lukman. The erstwhile PGF scribe had in a statement credited to him, alleged that Kalu and some party leaders were working with the Chairman of the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), Mai Mala Buni to undermine the March 26 national convention of the party. The former governor of Abia State, however, in a statement personally signed by him in Abuja, on Saturday, said Lukman’s accusations against him was far from the truth.…

By Reuben Onyishi(Ugoachataberu) The chicken has come to roost now that Senator Ike Ekweremadu has today, 11th March, 2022 declared for the Enugu Gubernatorial race. Senator Ekweremadu had last year begun to heat up the Enugu polity when he declared his Ike Is Coming fad. It was a term he put in the mouth of his acolytes and media handlers who swooped on social media platforms with it. Ekweremadu's aspiration was received with cold feet in Enugu State for two reasons. First, the expectation was that he would go for the presidency since the call for the president of Igbo…

The Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, has called for unity of all caucuses in the All Progressives Congress for the overall interest of all. The former governor of Abia State said this amid the leadership crisis rocking the Caretaker/Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee of the party. The Governor of Niger State, Abubakar Sani Bello, had on Monday declared himself as the Chairman of the APC-CECPC in acting capacity. However, a letter he wrote to the Independent National Electoral Commission concerning the APC’s national convention was rejected by the electoral body on the grounds that it was not…

The Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) says Governor Mai Mala Buni is still in charge of the party. Some APC governors had expressed support for Governor Sani Bello who took charge of the party on Monday. Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State had said Buni, who is on a medical trip in Dubai, had been removed at the instance of President Buhari. He blamed Buni for the widening crisis in the party and said that the Yobe governor had been removed for good and that Sani Bello was fully in charge with the support…

Abam Onyerubi youths under the aegis of Abam Peace & Progressive Initiative (APPI), yesterday endorsed an illustrious son of Ohafia and renowned Economist of international repute, Dr. Ibe Okwara Osonwa, for House of Representatives seat to represent Arochukwu/Ohafia federal constituency on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 general election. The group in a statement signed by its Deputy Director General, Hon. Austin Kalu Akuma, explained that the call became necessary based on the track record of Ibe Okwara Osonwa, whom they described as a man that has the interest of the people at heart. They…