By SUNDAY WALE ADENIRAN Tinubu was the target. But after all the schemings and conspiracies, he still won the ticket with a margin that only discerning minds could see. Those who led the schemings and conspiracies today, Obaseki no longer see them. They are biting their nails in their closet. They have not only laboured in vain, they have given the good people of Edo another 4 years of non-performance and complete waste. But the schemers and the conspirators can’t be blamed alone. The people too are guilty. And Edo PDP? Their songs of victory was short lived. And the…
Author: Spade Nigeria
Less than 56 days to the presidential election, the Vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has dismissed the chances of the Labour Party (LP), saying it is heading nowhere. Okowa made the claim on Friday when he led the Delta State PDP campaign train to Ndokwa West and Ndokwa East Local Government Areas of the State. The Governor urged PDP supporters to make members of the LP return to the party, so it will not be easier for the All Progressives Congress, APC, to win next year’s election. He said, “We all know that…
By Onoriode Etatsemi. Residents of Okeregbagha Garden Estate Okirighwre in Sapele local government area of Delta State, have appealed to Government and relevant authorities to Urgently come to their rescue by supplying them with brand new electricity transformers . Mr Omamogho Daniel one of the Landlords in the area who decried their plight having suffered in darkness for months at the moment owing to bad transformers which he said, the management of Benin Electricity Distribution Company has refused to change appealed to the government to supply them with two transformers for the fast developing area. He explained that the only…
We read with amusement the endorsement of Mr. Peter Obi, the Labour Party Presidential Candidate by former President Olusegun Obasanjo in his New Year message on Sunday. Following calls by journalists from various media houses who asked for our reaction we decided to make this preliminary statement, though we didn’t consider the so-called endorsement to be of any value. We respect the democratic right of former President Obasanjo to support and endorse any candidate of his choice in any election. Except that he made it known formally in his new year message, any discerning political watcher in Nigeria knows that…
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Spokesman, Mr Charles Aniagwu has accused Rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike of masterminding the opening of the party’s presidential contest as against popular wish of micro zoning to the South-East. Aniagwu said Wike influenced the zoning committee headed by his friend and ally Benue Governor, Samuel Ortom to open the contest thinking he could muscle everyone to win. Speaking on “Prime Time” on Arise Television, Aniagwu who is also Commissioner for information in Delta said the ongoing crisis in the party was caused by Wike’s inordinate ambition to be President. According to him, Wike’s anger at…
The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, Bashorun Askia Ogieh, has said the new year will mark the advancement of Delta State and the restoration of the great destiny of Nigeria and urged citizens across the country to embrace the year with positive spirit. Ogieh who holds the highly esteemed traditional title of the Udu of Isoko Nation made the declaration in his new year message released on Sunday, January 1. The message called on Deltans and Nigerians to work with collective consciousness and action towards the rescue and reset…
By: Farouk Ozigi Onimisi (The White Orator) It was Max DePree who said the first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. Peter Drucker postulated that leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. Upon the achievements of Governor Yahaya Bello as the Executive Governor of Kogi State, he has proven the responsibilities of a governor which says as state managers, Governors are responsible for…
The Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has congratulated Nigerians on the dawning of the New year, 2023, urging them to further unite, brace up and forge a formidable front in the determination to rescue Nigeria from oppressive forces. In a statement Saturday December 31, 2022 by the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, the Caucus said, Nigerians as a people, should step into the New Year with thanksgiving to God for the miracle of surviving the suffocating economic hardship, escalated insecurity and myriads of suppressive experiences occasioned by the misrule of the incompetent,…
Vice Presidential Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Governor of Delta, Sen. (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, said God would determine Nigeria’s next President and not the action of G-5 governors. Okowa stated this on Friday in Aboh when he led Delta State PDP campaign train to Ndokwa East and Ndokwa West Local Government Areas of the state. He, however, expressed confidence that the five governors would put the past behind them and work for the victory of PDP in the 2023 general elections. “God has said it that we the PDP will win this election. Many things may be happening…
Notable South-South leaders on Wednesday scolded the Representative of Abia North Senatorial District, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu. They also described his comment on the appointment of Chairman and Managing Director for the Niger Delta Commission (NDDC) as ‘’an attack on oil producing areas, classic example of conceit and proposal of anarchy’’. ‘’The NDDC Act is sound on the establishment of a governing body. To abandon it is unthinkable’’ In a statement read aloud to journalists in Abuja by the Chairman of the South-South Front (SSF), Chief John Harry, the leaders said it would be a disaster to the oil producing…