Category: Politics

Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria’s former President, has dismissed as fake news, a viral message where he was quoted as endorsing the political prowess of All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and disparaging the military. Obasanjo in a viral WhatsApp message was quoted to have said: “I am not a politician; I am a decorated soldier, an army general. If you are looking for thorough bred politician of masters class, visit Lagos Bourdillon, there you’ll find one…” Reacting to the claim through his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi,…

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Nyesom Wike, Rivers State Governor, has signed a legislative instrument into law to de-recognise Sir Celestine Omehia as a former governor of the state following the resolution of the State House of Assembly. With his assent, the recognition that accorded Omehia the status of a former governor of the state with accruable rights and benefits has been cancelled. However, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has asked the state governor and leadership of the State Assembly to tender unreserved apologies to Rivers people for disregarding the Supreme Court…

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Nyesom Wike, Rivers State Governor, on Monday said his predecessor, Rotimi Amaechi, did not attract any meaningful project to the state as Minister of Transportation; describing his tenure as a total failure. Wike said this while reacting to Amaechi’s comments that the Rivers State Government refused to give state burial to the late Chief Alabo Graham-Douglas that was laid to rest last weekend. He used the occasion of the formal inauguration of the reconstructed former Rivbank Insurance building in Port Harcourt on Monday to lampoon the former transportation minister. He…

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Senator Iyiochia Ayu, the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, yesterday got a confidence vote after weeks of speculations about whether or not he should retain his seat. But the decision did not go down well with Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State who insisted that Ayu must step down. The party’s presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and Governor Wike have been at loggerheads over the agitation for Ayu’s removal as the party’s chairman. The Rivers governor and those sympathetic to his cause are aggrieved, following their perceived marginalization…

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Uchenna Nnaji, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Enugu State, on Sunday, said that the current crisis rocking the party was predicated on the campaign money for the state. Nnaji, who spoke at an emergency stakeholders meeting held at the South-East zonal office of the party, said if the anticipated campaign fund from the APC’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, would be a source of destabilisation for the party, the fund should instead be withheld until after the election. “The current crisis in Enugu APC is all about…

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The All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been receiving condemnation from the Peter Obi Support Network, accusing him of wishing the Labour Party presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, and his supporters dead. The group in a statement, observed with dismay that Tinubu has refused to condemn the “obituary” column written by one of his aides, Mr Sam Omatseye, published on Monday. The statement which was signed by the Deputy Director of Communications, POSN, Mr Adegbite Adekunle, on Wednesday, said Omatseye, had in the article, wished the…

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The Deputy National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Ghana, Amb. Oloye Oyeyemi Fatuyi has hailed the election of Senator Ademola Adeleke as the Governor of Osun state on the platform of the PDP. Congratulating the people of Osun state for electing a man capable of transforming the state, Fatuyi said the victory was a great message that the people knew what they wanted. In a statement issued by Ghana PDP chapter’s Media Adviser, Mr Moses Owopade, Fatuyi expressed confidence in the ability of the governor elect as a…

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