APC’s D-day arrives, delegates set to elect Governorship candidate
Rotimi Amaechi, Tonye Cole Delegates of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State are leaving their homes. They are headed for the venue of the gubernatorial primary where they will elect a gubernatorial candidate. About 1,595 delegates will be participating in Thursday’s gubernatorial primary. A…
Developing story: PDP elects Wike’s replacement
… Siminialayi Fubara emerges as flag bearer Delegates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State Wednesday elected the party’s gubernatorial flag bearer. He is Siminialayi Fubara. Fubara is from the Rivers East Senatorial District which is yet to produce a governor. Fubara, a…
Developing story: Delegates, party leaders converge at Obi Wali
….PDP flag bearer to emerge today Any moment from now, delegates of the People Democratic Party in Rivers State will be filing out to elect the party’s gubernatorial flag bearer. Already, the Obi Wali Conference Centre, venue of the gubernatorial primaries is jam-packed. Seated at…
Developing story: Wike sends commissioners,others packing
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has ordered the dissolution of the State Executive Council. The order takes immediate effect. A Government statement issued on a Tuesday and signed by Kelvin Ebiri, Special Assistant to the Governor on Media also disclosed that the Chief of…
Tinubu begs for Kano votes
As Presidential aspirants in the APC take their campaign messages round the country, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, former Lagos State Governor, has passionately appealed to party delegates in Kano to back his ambition, saying, “choose me, I beg you.” Tinubu who flew in several hours…
Umahi on zoning: No need to blackmail the North if…
Nigerians are tired of empty political promises, an APC Presidential aspirant, Dave Umahi, Governor of Ebonyi State has emphasized Umahi who appeared on ‘Politics Today’ broadcast on Channels Television Thursday night said there was really no need for politicians to bore Nigerians with unattainable…
Blockade at party secretariat: APC reacts
The All Progressives Congress, APC has reacted to the incident which occurred at its State secretariat along Woji Road at GRA in Port Harcourt. Chris Finebone, State Publicity Secretary of the party, explained that there was no relationship between the screening of State House of…
Update: One shot as Trouble escalates in APC
There are reports that there has been shooting at the State APC Secretariat in Port Harcourt, capital of Rivers State. Residents in the area say they heard gunshots around the vicinity of the party office. A mob had cordoned off access to the Secretariat claiming…
Breaking: Trouble may break out in APC
Signs that trouble might be looming within the Rivers APC which is poised to organise congresses on Wednesday and Thursday to elect delegates are gradually emerging. The disagreement is between forces loyal to the former Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi and Senator Bola…
Kaduna agog for Amaechi as El-Rufai pulls rung under Tinubu’s feet
Reports reaching our news desk indicate that delegates from Kaduna State have endorsed Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, the Dan Amanar of Katsina and former Minister of Transportation. Amaechi whose resignation ought to be on the President’s desk given the expiration of the Monday deadline,…
