The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege has landed in Asaba ahead of the Delta State governorship primaries of All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday. Senator Omo-Agege is a leading contender for the governorship of Delta State. The governorship primary which holds at Federal Technical College, Asaba will witness the gathering of elected delegates who will elect the party’s standard bearer in the 2023 gubernatorial polls. The aircraft conveying the Delta Central lawmaker landed at Asaba Airport around 6:30pm, Tuesday, May 25. In his entourage were his Chief of Staff, Dr Otive Igbuzor, former presidential spokesman and Director,…
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By Palmer Ogheneyole Nathaniel Delta State House of Assembly Majority Leader and Member representing Isoko South Constituency II, Hon. Chief Ferguson Onwo KSC, has dispelled rumours of the withdrawal of the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori FICMC from the People’s Democratic party (PDP) gubernatorial primaries, stating that the Speaker is few hours away from emerging as the candidate of the party in the 2023general elections. Onwo who made the statement while fielding questions from newsmen at the venue of the primary, lambasted those circulating the remours describing them as bad opponents who are scared…
By Sam Kargbo I was already a veteran resident of Lagos in 1999 when Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu became the governor of Lagos State. One thing I did not fail to notice was the team he set up to push forward his vision for the state. I had an opportunity to meet him in 2005 in the company of Senator Muhammad Adamu Aliero. He was magnetic and enthusiastic in rolling out his vision for Lagos State. He listed the obstacles and challenges before him but he expressed absolute determination to succeed and push through them. One of the statements he…
By Xajo Iweta OROBUKOGBAKE An alleged attempt to forcefully administer an oath on some delegates of the Peoples Democratic Party in Delta State in the ongoing party primaries is said to be rocking the party since last weekend. It was learnt that some delegates of the PDP in Oshimili South Local Government Area had to physically resist the attempt by a former Chairman of the party in the state, Chief Edwin Uzor, to administer the oath on them. It was further learnt that on the evening of Saturday, May 21, the ex-party chief, who had invited some of the delegates…
By Xajo Iweta OROBUKOGBAKE Ahead of the Governorship Primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) scheduled for today Wednesday, Delta State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, has been embroiled in a delegates gagging controversy. It was alleged that not satisfied with the assurances extracted from the delegates who had been heavily induced monetarily, the governor resorted to arm twisting tactics by threatening and intimidating the. delegates. It was learnt that he had already camped them in various hotels in Asaba, with a firm instructions that each delegate must mark his or her ballot paper with a written code “9” at the…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State has assured all aspirants that bought the party’s expression of interest and nomination forms of free, fair and credible conduct of its primary elections. The State Chairman of the APC, Engr. Omene Sobotie, gave this assurance today while addressing all Delta South Senatorial District aspirants vying for elective positions at an enlarged meeting of Delta South APC held at the Emede, Isoko South Local Government Area residence of Hon Joel-Onowakpo Thomas. He said that, “APC is positioned and ready to take over Delta State. We are not going to compromise. We will…
by Tosan Ukubeyinje The past has a way of catching up with humanity. No matter how far gone or how fast we run, it takes only a second for the past to level up with us. The experience thrown up in contemporary Nigerian politics attest to the truth of this conclusion. In less than a year after the present dispensation was inaugurated, two leading political actors namely Evan(s) Enwerem and Salisu Ibrahim were indicted for possessing multiple personalities and fake certificates respectively. Both actors were members of the National Assembly. Enwerem was Senate President, while Salisu was the Speaker of…
by Obaro Imonikugbere When the English playwright William Shakespeare wrote The Merchant of Venice, he wove a complex plot that took the breadth of theater goers and readers away. The intrigues which constituted the plot were so complex and so impossible to resolve that they kept the audience and readers on edge. Anxiety and suspense had the better of them. But Shakespeare’ genius threw up a deus ex machina which even the villain Shylock recognized by declaring “A Daniel has come to judgment”. Thus the knotty plot was resolved and the play and its envisaged humanity lived on happily thereafter.…
THE Majority and Member representing Isoko South Constituency II at the Delta State House of Assembly, Hon. Chief Ferguson Onwo KSC, has thanked delegates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the constituency for his landslide victory in the primary State House of Assembly the primary election held yesterday. In a statement personally signed by him, the lawmaker also thanked the State Governor, Sen. Dr. Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa and other party leaders in his constituency and beyond, who stood firmly behind him. He attributed his victory to the collective desire of all party men and women to build stronger democratic…
By BULOU KOSIN Deputy Governor of Delta State and leading aspirant to Osadebe House, Asaba, in 2023, Deacon Kingsley Burutu Otuaro, is of the Ijaw ethnic nationality in Delta State. He carries modicum of Urhobo identity derived from roots in Emadadja in Udu LGA in Delta Central Senatorial District. During his statewide political consultations, Otuaro’s pledge that he will be fair to all Deltans resonated with the crowds majority of who were pulled to his detribalised nature–a historically proven nature improved by his now Christian passion for the good of all mankind. Growing up in his home in Gbaramatu Kingdom…