Category: Politics

Work against Okowa, Delta APC chieftain begs southern leaders The dust threw up by the emergence of Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa as presidential running mate to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is yet to settle. His choice has divided PDP governors and their predecessors. Some are bitter that Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike was dumped for […]

By Banji Ayoola Southern and Middle Belt leaders have described Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa as a traitor for accepting to be the Vice Presidential candidate to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, another northerner, in the 2023 elections, contrary to the collective position of all the Southern governors. The 17 Southern governors at meetings in Asaba, Delta […]

Warns INEC against substituting names of elected candidates A group, Abuja School of Social and Political Thoughts, has warned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) not to take the country to inglorious days, when impunity reigned, by substituting the names of validly elected candidates in the just concluded political parties’ primaries with people that did […]

A former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and former Governor of Osun State, Chief Bisi Akande, has commended the leadership and members of the Yoruba Ronu Group, YRG, who paid him a visit at his country home in Ila-Orogun, Osun State, for their selfless devotion to the cause of the Yoruba race. […]

The Southern and Middle Belt Leaders’ Forum has described the governor of Delta State, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, as a traitor for accepting his nomination as Vice Presidential Candidate to Atiku Abubakar in the forthcoming 2023 general election. The group said Okowa was among the governors who agreed that power should be rotated to the […]

APC Dodges, As PDP Begs For Unity The politics of running mate selection in the major political parties has given an inkling of how the 2023 Presidential contest would be fought. Governing All Progressives Congress (APC) and its rival main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have shown in more ways than one that they represent […]

The All Progressives Congress on Friday submitted the list of all its senatorial candidates to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. However, there were controversies around some names of candidates who contested the presidential elections like the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, and a former Niger Delta Affairs Minister, Godswill Akpabio, […]

Peter Obi. Photo/Facebook/ The New Nigeria’s People Party (NNPP) on Saturday said there is an ongoing discussion with Labour Party (LP) for a merger in the 2023 general elections. A merger could present the presidential candidates of both political parties – NNPP’s Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, a former Kano State governor and Labour Party’s Peter Obi, […]

Okowa: Atiku has answers to Nigeria’s challenges, Wike won’t be disappointed Atiku had the final say, Ayu clarifies Secondus congratulates Atiku, Okowa Okowa betrayed ‘Asaba Accord’ of Southern governors, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Afegbua react Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar’s decision to pick Delta State governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, as his running mate, […]