Category: Politics
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Imo still under PDP control, says Okorocha
Former Imo State Governor Owelle Rochas Okorocha on Monday said Governor Hope Uzomma has sidelined key All Progressives Congress (APC) stakeholders in the state. He said the state is only “APC in name” and that the current administration’s is controlled by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). According to Okorocha, Uzodimma did not appoint any key…
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Oshiomhole meets Buhari, says no plan to return as APC chairman
Former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has denied plotting to return to the position. Oshiomhole spoke on Monday while addressing State House Correspondents after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja. The former Edo Governor was reacting to a recent allegation by Director-General of the…
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You can’t produce President in 2023 former Imo Commissioner tells Ndigbo
A former Commissioner for Information, Tourism and Public Utilities in Imo State, Vitalis Ajumbe, has said the South East should forget the agitation for 2023 presidency. The region, he explained, should rather pursue the Vice- Presidential slot and build from there. He spoke in an interview in Abuja, saying the Igbo people are not united…
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2023 Presidency: Buhari, Tinubu aren’t your problem, APC chieftain tells Ndigbo
A chieftain of the All progressives Congress in Abia State and Director-General of Buhari South East Youth Movement (BUSEYM), Engr. Nwabueze Onwuneme, has called on Igbo elites not to see President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, as stumbling blocks to the realisation of a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction come…
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Ex-Defence Perm Sec rejoins APC
Former Defence Ministry Permanent Secretary Chief Mike Onoja and his supporters have now returned to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Benue state has been hit by a gale of defections from other political parties to APC, in spite of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) controlling the machinery of the State Government. In 2018, Benue State…
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2023 Presidency: Igbo group to raise N500b
A group, the World Igbo Peoples Assembly (WIPAS), on Thursday said it would raise N500 million to ensure someone from the Southeast is elected President in 2023. Its spokesman, Chief Emeka Nwachukwu, said it was long overdue for the Igbo to produce a President. Nwachukwu is hopeful that Ndigbo and Nigerians of good conscience worldwide…
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Ondo guber: Deputy governor declares for ZLP
Huge crowd gathered at the secretariat of the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) in Akure to join the Ondo State Deputy Governor, Agboola Ajayi who declared for the party on Friday. Agboola resigned from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in June and joined the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) where he failed to secure the party’s…
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Edo factional Assembly members threaten to impeach Obaseki
Factional Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Victor Edoror, has warned state Governor, Godwin Obaseki , not to violate constitutional provisions, if he does not want to be impeached. Edoror, who spoke after Wednesday’s sitting of his faction at an undisclosed address at the Government Reserved Area of the state, said the decisions…
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Fani-Kayode spits fire, threatens to dump PDP
The former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has threatened to dump the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Nigeria’s main opposition party. He said if the National Working Committee takes the party structures in Cross River State away from Ben Ayade, the Governor of Cross Rivers state, and hand them over to another person he would take…
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Ondo deputy governor dumps PDP
The Ondo State Deputy Governor, Mr Agboola Ajayi, has resigned his membership from the Peoples Democratic Party. Ajayi, who lost the primary of the PDP to Mr Eyitayo Jegede, was said to have sent the letter of resignation to the PDP secretariat at Apoi Ward 2 in Kiribo town, Ese Odo Local Government Area of…