This piece addresses a serious national issue but is laced with an ample dose of comic relief. It is, basically, satirical albeit topical. Inspired by a classical Chicago Blues tune titled “Hoochie Coochie Man”, the article is partly experiential hence entertaining even in its topicality; its introductory anecdote reflects the author’s affinity with music. In…
PDP Crisis: Ayu Steps Down as Party Chair
The crisis of leadership in the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP may have reached a boiling point. Following a court order asking Senator Iyorchia Ayu, erstwhile national chairman of the party to stop parading himself as the chairman of the party, the party has asked Iliya Damagun, the deputy national chairman to step into the office…
Appeal Court Confirms Adeleke’s Victory
The court of Appeal has set aside the tribunal judgement annulling the election of Ademola Adeleke as governor of Osun State. The court sitting in Abuja on Friday, in a unanimous decision by a three-member panel of justices led by Justice Mohammed Lawal Shaibu overruled the verdict of the governorship election tribunal that nullified the…
Put God First in All Things, Okowa Charges Oborevwori, Delta Governor-Elect At Thanksgiving Service
Delta State Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, has expressed gratitude to the people of the state for using their ballots to give the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Sheriff Oborevwori, victory in Saturday’s governorship election. A visibly elated Governor Okowa disclosed that the presidential and governorship election taught him new lessons, and promised to…
I Will Be Sworn in May 29, Says Omo-Agege, As He Vows to Challenge PDP’s Victory in Court
The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Delta State, and deputy senate president, Ovie Omo-Agege, has rejected the declaration of the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Sheriff France Oborevwori, as winner of the governorship and House of Assembly elections held Saturday March 18, 2023. Omo-Agege, who vowed to challenge Oborevwori’s…
Delta Guber Outcome: APC, LP Kick, NNPP Concedes Defeat
Various political parties that participated in Saturday’s governorship election in Delta State have continued to react to the outcome of the poll in which candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Sheriff Oborevwori was declared winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC on Monday. While the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Labour Party,…
Obi Leading With Wide Margin In Delta, Wins 13 Of 18 LGAs Announced
Results of 18 out of the 25 local government areas in Delta State released Monday night in Asaba by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, indicated that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, (LP), Peter Obi, is coasting home to a landslide victory over candidates of the more established parties – Atiku Abubakar of…
Outrage Over INEC’s Conduct of Presidential/NASS Polls
Protests spontaneously broke out in Abuja and Port Harcourt on Monday, February 27, as the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, battled with the problems of non-use of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS machines across the country.Youths besieged the INEC headquarters at Zambezi Crescent, Abuja, chanting, ‘We no go gree! We no go gree!” At…
LP Shocks PDP, APC in Delta, Sacks Elumelu, Reps Minority Leader
…Defeats Governor Okowa, SSG, APC National Publicity Scribe in LGAs/constituencies The Labour Party, LP has caused a major political upset in Delta State giving the ruling Peoples Democratic Party a bloody nose, and sacking the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Ndudi Elumelu, representing Aniocha and Oshimili Federal Constituency from the lower chamber. Elumelu…