From Our Correspondent President Bola Tinubu says the All Progressives Congress (APC) is on the path to victory in the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Edo State. Tinubu expressed optimism while presenting the party’s flag to the governorship candidate, Sen. Monday Okpebholo, on Monday, in Abuja. Addressing party stalwarts led by its National Chairman, Dr Abdullahi […]
From Our Correspondent A former member of the House of Representatives, Shina Peller has resigned from the Accord Party to join the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State. TheNewsZenith reports that Peller represented Iseyin/Itesiwaju/Kajola Federal constituency of Oyo state in the ninth National Assembly. He said he joined PDP because of Gov. Seyi […]
From Our Correspondent A retired Army General, Charles Airhiavbere, says he is the best to fly the All Progressives Congress (APC) flag in the Edo State Gubernatorial race in September this year. Airhiavbere made this declaration while addressing his teeming supporters in Benin City, after officially submitting his ‘Expression of Interest’ and ‘Nomination’ forms. “We […]
By Omo Odigie Not a few political observers have described Dr Ernest Afolabi Umakhihe, APC’s leading aspirant for the Edo State gubernatorial race as a greenhorn in partisan politics, having retired as a federal civil servant in January this year. How wrong they all are as events have increasingly shown, lending credence to the biblical […]
By Dr Omo Odigie ‘Calm’, ‘humble’, ‘calculated’ and ‘goal-focused’ are words that are appropriate to define the personality of Dr Ernest Afolabi Umakhihe, the APC’s frontline aspirant for Edo Governorship. If he were to be in any other major political party, they would adopt his candidacy effortlessly as their consensus choice. Notwithstanding, the APC, as […]
From Our Correspondent Members of the Ogun State House of Assembly, on Tuesday, impeached their Speaker, Olakunle Oluomo (APC-Ifo1). Eighteen out of 26 members removed Oluomo during the plenary, presided over by the Deputy Speaker, Mrs Bolanle Ajayi (APC-Yewa South) in Abeokuta. The embattled speaker was not at the plenary but the Clerk and the […]
From Our Correspondent A socio-cultural group, “Assembly of Edo Patriots” (AEP) says it will fund the nomination of ex-Federal Permanent Secretary, Dr Ernest Afolabi Umakhihe, for Edo Gubernatorial race on the platform of the APC. The group, in a statement on Tuesday in Benin City said Umakhihe was best qualified as APC candidate. This is because of […]
Tanzanian President, Samia Suluhu Hassan, on Monday, directed the army to ensure that the forthcoming elections were conducted in a peaceful atmosphere. Hassan gave the directive while addressing the Tanzania People’s Defense Force army commanders in Dar-es-Salaam. She said the army should prepare for any challenges that may arise during the forthcoming elections. Tanzania will […]
From Our Correspondent An appeal has gone to Gov. Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State to make history by appointing the first woman to fill the vacant Deputy Governor’s position. The National Coordinator of “Nothing Without Women”, a renowned socio-political group, Alhaja (Hon) F. I Gidado, made the call during an interaction with newsmen, on Monday, […]
*** De Renaissance Patriots Cry Out Indigenes of Lagos State are gradually wising up and ostensibly opening their eyes. They are beginning to realise that, since the return of democracy in 1999, non-indigenes have been depriving them of opportunities to govern their state as guaranteed by the Constitution. They are now crying out against the […]