IMMEDIATE past Accountant General of Rivers state, Siminaliayi Fubara has clinched the state’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ticket to contest the 2023 governorship election. Fubara, widely acknowledged as Wike’s first choice aspirant emerged winner at the primary concluded Wednesday night at the Obi Wale Cultural Center, Port Harcourt with majority delegates swayed by the governor’s...
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PDP presidential primary to hold as court adjourns suit
A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Wednesday, adjourned till June 1 a case challenging the forthcoming presidential primary of the Peoples Democratic Party scheduled for May 28. One of the presidential aspirants of the PDP, Ndukwe Chukwudi, had on April 28, asked Justice Donatus Okorowo to stop the presidential primary for contravening its zoning agreement and not agreeing...
Education colleges decry IPPIS crisis, lecturers plan strike
Lecturers of Colleges of Education across the country, on the platform of the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union, have given the Federal Government a 21-day ultimatum to meet their demands or be ready for an indefinite strike. This was just as the Mobilisation Coordinator of the Education Rights Campaign, Michael Lenin, blamed the Federal...
Buhari’s men wooing Jonathan to join APC – Source
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, again met with former President Goodluck Jonathan ahead of the presidential primary of the APC billed for Sunday, UGAMATV has learnt. The meeting, it was learnt, preceded a discussion between Jonathan and Mamman Daura, the influential nephew of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.)....
ADAMU: One aspirant wins APC ticket, Tinubu, Amaechi, others know
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, on Wednesday, disclosed that all the 28 presidential aspirants vying for the party’s ticket were aware that only one could clinch it. This was as he chided people comparing the manner he was picked as a consensus candidate at the APC chairmanship convention to...
Soludo declares curfew in Anambra
The Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has declared curfew in Anambra State. Soludo made this declaration in a state broadcast on Wednesday evening in Awka. The curfew, according to the governor, will commence on Thursday from 6:00pm to 6:00am. He said, “With effect from tomorrow, Thursday, 26th May, 2022, a 6pm to 6am curfew...
Why I quit PDP, presidential primary –Peter Obi
Former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, has explained that “recent developments” within the Peoples Democratic Party were responsible for his resignation from the opposition party and withdrawal from its presidential primary slated for end of May. Obi was one of the 15 PDP presidential aspirants cleared by the Senator David Mark-led Presidential Screening Committee...
Shock as Peter Obi dumps PDP, protests mar gov primaries
Governorship primaries of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party in Enugu, Abia, Borno, Taraba and Ogun states were on Wednesday characterised by violence, protests and withdrawal of aspirants. UGAMATV REPORTS Prominent governorship aspirants including a former President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu; former Senator representing Enugu East Senatorial District, Senator Gilbert Nnaji; the Senate Minority Leader;...
Breaking: Peter Obi dumps PDP, withdraws from Presidential race
Former governor of Anambra state, Mr. Peter Obi has dumped the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. ALSO READ BREAKING: SENATOR EKWEREMADU WON’T PARTICIPATE IN ENUGU PDP GOVERNORSHIP PRIMARY ELECTION Obi announced his resignation in a letter dated 20, addressed to the National Chairman of the party. In the letter sighted by UGAMATV, Obi gave reasons...
Pictorial: Families of abducted train passengers protest in Kaduna
The families of passengers kidnapped from the bombed Abuja-Kaduna took to the streets of Kaduna on Wednesday to call for the rescue of their loved ones from the kidnappers’ den. With placards, the protesters called on the Federal Government to ensure the safe release of their family members. Terrorists had attacked the train on March...