ro “When you first meet old people at dawn, kindness will attend you that day; if a teacher, knowledge; if a market woman, favour; but if a group of comedians, then laughter and comic relief”. The afore-quoted popular saying is true to the recent political script which seems to have been handed down to Senator…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised the newly reappointed Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu not to recourse to excuses but to use the more than two years ahead of the 2023 general election to rejig the electoral commission and work out legislations and operational rules that will guarantee…
Senator Pius Anyim, a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, has lambasted the Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi saying that his greed and inordinate ambition will sink him. Umahi, had last week Friday after the state security council meeting, accused Mr Anyim; senators Sam Egwu and Obinma Ogba, and PDP acting Vice…
Pan Nigerian President of Igbo Extraction Coalition PANPIEC, the foremost group seeking for the actualization of Igbo Presidency had solidified its efforts to ensure that the Igbo Presidency project is not jettisoned with the defection of Governor Dave Umahi to the APC. PANPIEC had not officially reacted to the defection of Governor Dave Umahi from…
The latest political news in Nigeria is the defection of the Ebonyi state Governor, Dave Umahi, on Tuesday to the All Progressives Congress (APC), citing injustice meted on the South East by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the reason behind his action. But the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has faulted the reason given…
By Obinna Akukwe Igbos who are interested in Presidency 2023 should join hands with Chris Ngige to ensure that Anambra goes APC in 2021. I have been a proponent of Igbo Presidency since 2003, and got disappointed when Ojo Maduekwe, then Minister of Transportation, described the quest as ‘Idiotic’ when it is well known that…
By Kareem Adeduntan Events of the past few weeks have been tumultuous. Unfortunate things have happened. Lives have been lost. Property damaged. Essential institutions such as the police force and army are under justifiable scrutiny. Protests call for needed reform. Taking advantage of the situation, less noble actors have pressed forward, either to steal the…
Former Governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has decried the removal of his cap by thugs at the Peoples Democratic Party rally in Ondo State on Wednesday. Fayose warned that what happened to the late Bola Ige, who was then the attorney general of the federation, must not happen to him after the…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has cautioned the National Caretaker Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Yobe Governor, Mai Mala Buni, to stop sending “impostors and charlatans in his party” to insult PDP Governors and other patriotic leaders just to divert attention from the failures and problems of his party. In a statement…
The immediate past Governor of Delta State, Emmanuel Uduaghan, has returned to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with his supporters. Uduaghan formally re-joined the PDP on Monday morning in his hometown, Abigborodo in Warri North Local Government Area of the state after being with the All Progressives Congress (APC) for two years. The former Governor…