A socio-political group in Ekpeye kingdom comprising, Ahoada East and West Local Government Areas in Rivers State, Amaechi’s Teeming Supporters in Ekpeye kingdom has described as a show of shame the role the police is playing in Rivers State to trounce on all political outfits floated by Gov. Chibuike... Read more
From: Diana Okon-Effiong, Calabar The Leadership of People’s Democratic Party has been told to checkmate further defection of PDP House of Representatives’ members to other political parties. The appeal was made by the Member representing Akpabuyo/Bakassi/Calabar South Federal Constituency, Rep. Essien Ayi, while interacting with journalists in Calabar. He also alleged that there... Read more
The Court of Appeal today dismissed the suit filed by former Governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva’s in his bid to unseat Governor Seriake Dickson at the Court of Appeal in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The Court of Appeal dismissed the suit for lack of jurisdiction to... Read more
The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has expressed shocked at what it said, were “reports of the attack on the party’s Secretariat in Yenagoa, capital of neighbouring Bayelsa State. The party’s position was made known in a press statement made available to Africanewscircle.com by Eze... Read more
Defunct Action Congress (AC) Governorship candidate in the 2007 general election, Prince Tonye Princewill is a member of the PDP, a prominent player in the politics of Rivers State has broken his silence on the politics of the state and other matters. He spoke on his support for the... Read more
Thirty seven Nigerian lawmakers have defected to Nigeria’s main opposition coalition, giving it a slim majority in the lower house of parliament, in a further blow to President Goodluck Jonathan’s 2015 re-election bid. The move follows a defection by five powerful governors last month to the opposition All Progressive... Read more
The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate, Chief Willie Obiano, has been declared Anambra State Governor-elect by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The formal announcement was made in the early hours of Sunday by the state returning officer in the governorship election concluded on Saturday, Prof. James Epoke,... Read more
Apparently reacting to the long-awaited decampment of seven renegade governors and their staunch followers in its fold, the National Disciplinary Committee set up by Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur has recommended the expulsion of leaders of the party’s breakaway faction, Alhaji Abubakar... Read more
The National Chairman of the factional Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP), Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje, has formally announced the defection of the splinter group into the All Progressives Congress (APC). The long expected merger was contained in a communiqué which Alhaji Baraje read to journalists at the end... Read more
The Alhaji Kawu Baraje led-factional PDP says the continued refusal of the Presidency to recognise Rivers State Governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi, as Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) is dangerous, unjustifiable, regrettable and unacceptable. The group said that the Presidency had reiterated its position while... Read more
