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 Mr. Godwin Ovaseki, the Edo State governor has joined the main opposition party, the People Democratic Party (PDP)  while vowing to destroy and bury APC in Edo. Obaseki, who dumped the All Progressives Congress (APC) for PDP, took his aides and supporters along with him. Obaseki announced his move to PDP on Friday afternoon when he led some of his appointees and supporters to the party secretariat in Benin-City, the Edo state capital. Obaseki had on Wednesday consulted with the leadership of the PDP before his move on Friday. Obaseki the incumbent Governor was prevented from running under the APC for the Edo state governorship election when he was disqualified by the APC screening committee for the party primaries election. The committee supervised by Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, the suspended National Chairman of APC disqualified Obaseki over an allegation of certificate forgery. This is even as  Oshiomhole suspension has since been upheld by the ...

 The governor of Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel has appointed Mr. Ephraim Inyang-eye as his Chief of Staff. Before his appointment, Mr. Inyang has served as Honourable Commissioner for Works for about five years and still supervising the Ministry until a substantive Commissioner is appointed. MR. EPHRAIM INYANG-EYEN ABRIDGED PROFILE OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE GOVERNOR, MR. EPHRAIM INYANG-EYEN Born on November 25, 1965 to the family of Mr. & Mrs. Akparawa Inyang-Eyen of Nung Nya in Ikot Ebiere of Onna Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. Between 1977-1982, young Ephraim obtained his O/Level Certificate from Etinan Institute, Etinan. He proceeded to School of Basic Studies, Akamkpa from 1983 to 1985 and earned his A /Level in Mathematics, Chemistry and Geography. Not done with his quest for education, Ephraim Inyang-Eyen in 1985 enrolled in the prestigious University of Ibadan, Nigeria where he obtained a Bachelor Degree of Science in Chemistry (...

Sir, FIVE YEARS HAD JUST GONE I thank the Almighty God for his grace and mercy upon you and your family in the past five years as the governor of this great state. May He continue to keep you. Let me also thank the people of Akwa Ibom State for giving you the support right from your first term in office to this very day. They deserve nothing less than a sincere appreciation. My gratitude also goes to our security agents who had worked round the clock to ensure that this state remained peaceful and calm for all of us. God will reward them. Your Excellency, it has been over five years since God chose you to run the affairs of our state. The journey, from all indications, had not been easy. In the last five years, our state had made some important progress despite the challenges that confronted us. The state had experienced relative peace, although there were isolated cases of crisis and violence in some parts of the state. In the area of physical infrastruc...

Admin Amidst the dreaded Covid-19 pandemic that is threatening the global community, in Nigeria attention has been shifted to Edo State with the current political quagmire between the suspended National Chairman of APC, Adams Oshiomhole and his political son, Godwin Obaseki ahead of the gubernatorial election slated to hold on September 19, 2020. Barely less than 12 hours after the governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki and his deputy, Philip Shaibu have resigned their membership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State after the governor met with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, a Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja affirmed the suspension of the National Chairman of APC, Adams Oshiomhole dismissing his appeal as lacking in merit. It will be recalled that there has been a power tussle between the estranged political godfather, Adams Oshiomhole and his political son and governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki for months over what pundits described as...

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress has received the news indicating the Appeal Court has upheld the suspension of the Party’s National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole by an FCT High Court pending the determination of the substantive suit. Guided by advice from the Party’s legal department in line with the provisions of Section 14.2. (iii) of the Party’s constitution, the Deputy National Chairman (South), Sen. Abiola Ajimobi will serve as the Party’s Acting National Chairman. According to Section 14.2. (iii),of the APC constitution, the Deputy National Chairman, North/South “Shall act as the National Chairman in the absence of the National Chairman from his zone”. SIGNED Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu National Publicity Secretary All Progressives Congress

By Nwachukwu Ngige The political history of Africa avails two major tactics to successfully deal with what can be called godfatherism we know today. First is pretended subservience, playing a willing tool till such a time enough balls and muscles are developed in what historians term playing Mohammed V of Morocco. The idea is to pretend and hit when the iron is red-hot. How? Mohammed V was chosen by France instead of his elder brother as Sultan of Morocco in 1926. They thought of him a pliable tool for colonial administration. For many years , Mohammed aptly played the sheep to the disgust of his compatriot nationalists. Things came to a head when the second world war exposed the underbelly of France. Morocco made immense contributions to the French contingent of the allied forces that at the end of the war, Mohammed secured the commitment of the US President Roosevelt to Morocco’s freedom. France demurred and wasn’t ready for concession. Mohammed wasted no ti...

The Chairmen of the 18 Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Edo State have reaffirmed their support for the re-election bid of Governor Godwin Obaseki, noting that they are fully committed to the progressive ideals of the governor and his battle against godfatherism, thuggery and impunity. In a statement signed by the Chairman, Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), Edo State, Hon. Jenkins Osunde and the 17 other council chairmen in the state, the association described the disqualification of Governor Obaseki from the All Progressives Congress (APC) primary election as a theatre of political fraud staged with predetermined outcomes and decisions sponsored by the surrogates of the APC National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole. The chairmen noted, “We the undersigned Local Government Chairmen of all the 18 area councils in Edo State have held an emergency meeting to review what we consider an outrageous and undemocratic process of both the screening exe...