The Senate resumed from a six-week recess, during which party primary elections were concluded, but without leaders for both the majority and minority parties. While the minority leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe (Abia South) defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) having failed to win the PDP governorship primary in Abia State, the Majority …

A repeat of the 2019 political twist in Zamfara State is looming in Abia State in 2023, elders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and governorship aspirants of the party have warned. While the All Progressives Congress (APC) which was the sitting party in Zamfara State, won virtually all the National and state elections, the opposition PDP benefitted from judicial …

The screening committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the Governorship election in the Southeast has interviewed at least 37 aspirants in the three of the five states in the region. Aspirants from Abia, Ebonyi and Enugu States were at the party’s zonal office for the exercise in Enugu on Thursday. More aspirants were expected to be screened later …