Category: Politics

A Court of Appeal, sitting in Owerri has sacked Senator Ifeanyi Araraume and declared Sir Frank Ibezim as the authentic candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the rescheduled Imo North senatorial bye-election. The judgment, was delivered less than 24 hours to the bye-election, was read by Justice Uchechukwu Onyemenam. The Court of Appeal roundly faulted the November 6, 2020, judgment that sacked Ibezim and announced Araraume as the candidate of APC, having won the party primary election. It was the considered opinion of the Judge that the revalidation…

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Two-term deputy governor of Zamfara State, Ibrahim Wakkala, has defected from the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Peoples Democratic ruling Party (PDP). Wakkala served former Governor Abdul’aziz Yari in that capacity of deputy governor from 2011-2019. He said that his move was personal, and that would not affect his relationship with his former allies, because his decision was because of the socio-economic progress the state is experiencing under the current leadership. “My guiding principles and philosophies are focused on the development and socio-economic progress of Zamfara,” Wakkala noted, adding…

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Deputy Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Hon. Ogundeji Iroju has veeb impeached by the State Assembly. Iroju, who represents Odigbo Constituency I, was impeached at the plenary session yesterday and replaced with Samuel Tona Aderotoye from Odigbo Constituency II, who is occupying the office for the second time. The impeachment came, barely 24 hours after the Ondo State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Kolawole Olawoye was sacked by Governor Rotimi Akeredolu. Hon. Iroju’s impeachment was signed by 20 out of 26 lawmakers of the Assembly. The Speaker,…

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Governor David Umahi may have found himself in political wilderness, if the statement from the National Assembly members from Ebonyi State is true. Umahi had defected from the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) to the All Progressives Congress(APC), claiming injustice. However, the leader of the Ebonyi State PDP caucus in the National Assembly, Senator Sam Egwu, a former governor said read the position of his colleagues is that, none of the lawmakers would defect with Umahi. In a statement, they said what the governor did was unacceptable and selfish. At a press…

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Ebonyi State Governor, Chief David Umahi says his defection to the All Progressives Congress, APC was not as a result of the People’s Democratic Party not zoning the Presidency to him as being speculated in some quarters, but because of injustice. According to the Governor, his defection to APC is because he believes that the ruling party is amenable to working with the South East region than the PDP. Governor Umahi insisted that he would continue to agitate for the interest of the South East in or out of office…

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Zamfara State chapter of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP has recorded another set of members as 69 former Councillors and 14 local government council secretaries have announced their defection from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. A statement signed by Jamilu Iliyasu, the Press Secretary to the state governor, Gov. Bello Matawalle says the defectors, who had served as elected councillors between 2012 and 2019, moved from the APC to the PDP under the auspices of the state chapter of the Ex-councillors…

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Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, on Monday, handed over to Air Vice Marshall Ahmed Mu’azu (retired) to run the affairs of the commission. Mu’azu would oversee the INEC pending the confirmation of Yakubu by the Senate. Yakubu said, “You may recall that the current Commission was inaugurated in three batches. The Chairman and five Commissioners were sworn-in on 9th November 2015, followed by another six Commissioners on December 7, 2016, and one more Commissioner on July 21, 2018. “The commission is a constitutional body whose…

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The book launch of an autobiography of former Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala in Ibadan, Oyo State was well attended, but the controversies that trailed some comments by ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo and Akala’s predecessor, former Governor Rashidi Ladoja is not something to forget in a hurry. Obasanjo, who attended the book launch personally while making some comments from the book, had said that, Ladoja’s inability to manage the late Chief Lamidi Adedibu and Chief Yekini Adeojo were responsible for his impeachment. Barely 24-hours after Obasanjo’s comment, the former governor, Senator Ladoja, yesterday…

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