Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Spokesman, Mr Charles Aniagwu has accused Rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike of masterminding the opening of the party’s presidential contest as against popular wish of micro zoning to the South-East. Aniagwu said Wike influenced the zoning committee headed by his friend and ally Benue Governor, Samuel Ortom to open the contest thinking he could muscle everyone to win. Speaking on “Prime Time” on Arise Television, Aniagwu who is also Commissioner for information in Delta said the ongoing crisis in the party was caused by Wike’s inordinate ambition to be President. According to him, Wike’s anger at…
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The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, Bashorun Askia Ogieh, has said the new year will mark the advancement of Delta State and the restoration of the great destiny of Nigeria and urged citizens across the country to embrace the year with positive spirit. Ogieh who holds the highly esteemed traditional title of the Udu of Isoko Nation made the declaration in his new year message released on Sunday, January 1. The message called on Deltans and Nigerians to work with collective consciousness and action towards the rescue and reset…
By: Farouk Ozigi Onimisi (The White Orator) It was Max DePree who said the first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. Peter Drucker postulated that leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. Upon the achievements of Governor Yahaya Bello as the Executive Governor of Kogi State, he has proven the responsibilities of a governor which says as state managers, Governors are responsible for…
The Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has congratulated Nigerians on the dawning of the New year, 2023, urging them to further unite, brace up and forge a formidable front in the determination to rescue Nigeria from oppressive forces. In a statement Saturday December 31, 2022 by the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, the Caucus said, Nigerians as a people, should step into the New Year with thanksgiving to God for the miracle of surviving the suffocating economic hardship, escalated insecurity and myriads of suppressive experiences occasioned by the misrule of the incompetent,…
Vice Presidential Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Governor of Delta, Sen. (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, said God would determine Nigeria’s next President and not the action of G-5 governors. Okowa stated this on Friday in Aboh when he led Delta State PDP campaign train to Ndokwa East and Ndokwa West Local Government Areas of the state. He, however, expressed confidence that the five governors would put the past behind them and work for the victory of PDP in the 2023 general elections. “God has said it that we the PDP will win this election. Many things may be happening…
Notable South-South leaders on Wednesday scolded the Representative of Abia North Senatorial District, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu. They also described his comment on the appointment of Chairman and Managing Director for the Niger Delta Commission (NDDC) as ‘’an attack on oil producing areas, classic example of conceit and proposal of anarchy’’. ‘’The NDDC Act is sound on the establishment of a governing body. To abandon it is unthinkable’’ In a statement read aloud to journalists in Abuja by the Chairman of the South-South Front (SSF), Chief John Harry, the leaders said it would be a disaster to the oil producing…
By Sunday Wale Adeniran She said she wanted to be president too in 2019. You understand that here, everybody who has granted interview on Channels thinks that that’s a qualification him/her to be president. So this unrepentant IhPOB sympathizer threw her hat into the ring. Some social media political juggernauts but who can not influence 5 votes in their polling unit started saying that she was the best. They said that we that were supporting Buhari were blind and were slaves. But one day, Oby said that she was not running again but it came late. She later knew that…
The Speaker of the House of Representatives Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila has urged residents in his Surulere 1 Federal Constituency to come out on election day in February to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to witness more development in the constituency. Gbajabiamila said this during the commissioning ceremony of several projects completed by the administration of the Surulere Local Government Chairman, Hon. Sulaimon Yusuf on Thursday. The projects commissioned by the speaker includes a newly constructed legislative building, which was named after the Speaker, the renovated local government secretariat building, and two road projects on Makinde Street and Owolewa…
By FEMI ADESINA Under the camouflage of ‘speaking truth to power,’ it has become a regular thing for the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Hassan Kukah, to take potshots at President Muhammadu Buhari, and the governing All Progressives Congress (APC). When I saw the media reportage of his Christmas homily for 2022, I observed that it was in two distinct directions. The larger percentage took it from the negative: ‘Kukah blasts Buhari again; accuses him of failure to fight corruption, nepotism, and making Nigeria vulnerable.’ And there was the other perspective, which was positive but less popular and commonplace:…
Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, CON, on Thursday declared that the struggle for the Southern part of the country to produce the next President must continue until it is realised. Governor Akeredolu particularly urged the people to vote for the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the spirit of fairness and equality. The Governor explained that since President Muhammadu Buhari from the North is spending eight years, then it is the turn of the South to produce the next President for another eight years. Governor Akeredolu spoke while playing host to former…