Politics

OUK, ABIA NORTH AND THE PRESENT LEGAL CHALLENGE TO DEFEND THE INDEFENSIBLE. As the legal team of OUK are today battling to change the inconclusive results of Abia North senatorial election of the 25th of February, 2023 to a win win result for their principal, one set of people that will suffer most if the status quo ante bellum is sustained will be the Ohafia clan. Among the casualties if OUK and his legal team succeeds in court today will be, other senatorial candidates, all House of Representatives candidates, over 100 polling units where voting did not take place around…

PDP governorship primary: I gave delegates anointing oil to vote for me - Senator Dino Melaye Senator Dino Melaye on Tuesday said he gave delegates anointing oil to drink to vote for him at the Kogi PDP’s governorship primary which he won. Melaye said this in an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today, adding that God bankrolled him. Our Correspondence had asked Melaye who bankrolled him to win the primary election and he said God did. “Anyway, I’m not a staff of the EFCC or ICPC. I won’t know if there was money, but if at my level, if I…

Drama As Factional LP Chairman, Apapa Says Obi Is Not Qualified To Be President, Dissolves Presidential Campaign Council The factional Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Bashir Apapa on Tuesday took many by surprise following his claim that the presidential candidate of the party, Peter Obi is not qualified to rule Nigeria. AttNews gathered that Apapa also declared the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the party as illegal. According to Apapa, the presence of Julius Abure in the meeting shows that he is disobedient to the Federal High Court Order in Abuja. The court order had restrained the National…

Open Letter to Abia State Governor-elect, Dr Alex Otti By Dr CHIDI O. U. ESIKE Our Dear Governor-elect, Let me start by first congratulating you on your well-deserved victory. As you savour it and the garnishings of state-wide joyous eruptions that followed your announcement, I am sure that the significance of the huge burden of the love and trust of the long-suffering Abia people, must have been beyond your wildest imagination and must have been  frightening of sort to some extent. The trust and love are actually not misplaced because you knew that Abia was in trouble and you came to salvage…

Yakubu Gowon leads prayer rally in Umuahia to herald Otti’s take-over All is now set for a one-day national prayer rally in Umuahia, Abia State capital tagged: “When the Righteous Are In Authority” being organized by a non-governmental organization, Nigeria Prays. The rally by Nigeria Prays, a pet project of former Head of State, Gen Dr. Yakubu Gowon will be at the Master’s Vessel Church, Umuahia on Sunday, April 23, 2023, according to a release by the Abia State Coordinator of Nigeria Prays, Apostle Chuks Alozie. Drawing his reference to the rally from the biblical passage of Proverbs 29 vs…

After Several meetings at the INEC Office and their resolve to continue with Collation of results in the remaining LGs and Wards, the Election ended peacefully with the declaration of incumbent Governor Fintirin of PDP as the Winner of the 2023 Governorship election in Adamawa State. The result was announced by the returning Officer after Collation of the outstanding polling units, wards and LGs. Details coming soon

AbiaState: Don’t judge Dr. Alex Otti OFR with first 100 days performance — Father Anokwuru(Catholic priest) A member of the State 23-man transition committee, Father Anokwuru has urged Abia residents to ensure the smooth transition to new administration of Abia State led by Governor-elect, Dr Alex Otti saying he must not be judged by his first 100 days in office. Father Anokwuru who is also the Director of Investment, Catholic Diocese of Umuahia while speaking on Dr Otti’s 100 days in office said “We are not going to judge him in the next 100 days. Otti is not a magician…

Adamawa Guber: Fresh twist as APC’s Binani seeks judicial review of her declaration as winner The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Adamawa governorship election, Senator Aisha Binani Dahiru and the Party have filed a motion exparte before the Federal High Court in Abuja seeking a judicial review of the administrative decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on April 16 in respect of her declaration as the winner of the polls held on March 18 and the supplementary poll of April 15. Recall that controversy trailed Binani’s declaration as the winner of the governorship election…

The National Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and trustee member of the Labour Party (LP), Joe Ajaero, has declared that Julius Abure remains the recognised National Chairman of the party. Recalls that a High Court in Benin had restrained anybody from removing the embattled party chairman, while another court of cognate jurisdiction, an FCT High Court, granted an interim order, restraining Abure from parading himself as the party chairman. Ajaero, during an interview with journalist on Sunday, hinted that the NLC would seek an interpretation of the two court orders over the position of the national chairman of…

Binani: Adamawa REC faces 36 months in Prison, appears before INEC panel today The Adamawa State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Hudu Yunusa-Ari generated a lot of controversy on Sunday after declaring the Gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Aisha Dahiru alias ‘Binani’ as winner of the exercise. AttNews recalls that the commission had shifted the announcement of state supplementary election results to 11 am on Sunday after results from 11 out of 20 local government areas where reruns were held had been announced. Shockingly, the state REC, at about 9 am stormed the state INEC office in Yola, where…