Senators of Southeast geo-political zone on Monday endorsed Sen. Godswill Akpabio (APC-Akwa-Ibom) and Sen. Barau Jibrin (APC-Kano) as their choice candidates for Senate President and Deputy Senate President of the 10th Assembly, respectively. The 10th Assembly is due for inauguration on Tuesday. Imo’s Gov. Hope Uzodinma made this known in...
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Katsina State Governor, Malam Dikko Radda, on Sunday endorsed the aspirations of Sen. Godswill Akpabio and Barau Jibrin to lead the National Assembly’s 10th Senate. Malam Ibrahim Kaula, the Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the Governor, disclosed this in a statement issued to newsmen on Sunday in Katsina. According...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – A PDP Senator has thrown his weight behind the candidate of the All Progressives Congress APC for the position of Senate President ahead of the June 8 Inauguration. Gershom Bassey Senator representing Cross River South in the senate and Chairman Cross River Caucus in...
Citizens Network for Peace and Development in Nigeria (CNPDN), a Civil Society Organisation (CSO), has called on senators-elect to support the choice of Godswill Akpabio as President of the 10th Senate. The National Secretary of CNPDN, Mr Francis Wainwei, who made the call in a news conference in Abuja...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has declared his total support for the ambition of Senator Godswill Akpabio for the office of the Senate President of the 10th Senate. Wike spoke on Tuesday when he received members of the Stability Group, a group of Senators-elect,...
Sen. Abdulaziz Yari (APC-Zamfara) says he can’t be stopped from the race for the Presidency of the 10th National Assembly, because it is his constitutional right.He said this when he spoke with newsmen in Abuja on Monday. Yari, a former Governor of Zamfara, said that no individual had the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has distanced itself from the endorsement of Sen. Godswill Akpabio for Senate Presidency by Coalition of Northern groups. A member of the ACF, Alhaji Musa Saidu, disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja. Saidu, also the...
Mr Nathan Ekpo, a former Trustee of Abuja Akwa Ibom Community, said that Sen. Godswill Akpabio as the country’s next Senate President would be a perfect fit for the incoming administration of Sen. Bola Tinubu, the President-elect. He said this while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
The Vice President, Nigerian Ethnic Nationalities Youth Leaders Council, Balarabe Rufai, has called on Sen. Abdulazeel Yari to sheath his sword and accept the position of APC on Sen Godswill Akpabio as Senate President. Rufai who is also the immediate past National Co-ordinator of Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG)...
The Apex socio-cultural organization of Annang people, Afe Annang has thrown its weight behind one of her prominent sons, Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio by calling on the other 108 distinguished Senators of the 10th Senate to massively support and elect Senator Akpabio as the Senate President. In an Executive...
A group, Presidential Support Committee (PSC), has called on the leadership of the APC to zone the position of the Senate President of the 10th National Assembly to the South-South . The group, in a statement in Abuja, also proposed Sen. Godswill Akpabio for senate president and charged APC...
A Group, the Niger Delta Conscience Coalition (NDCC) has endorsed Sen. Godswill Akpabio as its preferred candidate for the Senate President of the 10th National Assembly. The President of the NDCC, Mr Aniefiok Fabian, who addressed a news conference on behalf of the group in Uyo on Thursday, said...
Not wanting to be left out of what shape, color, texture, content, and context should dominate in the the10th National Assembly, perhaps in his capacity as a prominent political elite and a former principal officer of the National Assembly to boot, the former senator from Cross River State Mr....
A socio-political group, Us4Us Movement, has canvassed the support of the national leadership of the All Progressive Congress (APC) for Sen. Godswill Akpabio to be become the 10th Senate President. Convener of the group, Mr Richard Romanus, made the call during an interaction with newsmen after an extraordinary meeting...
By PATRICK ABANG Calabar – President Muhammadu Buhari has described the former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Sen. Godswill Akpabio’s giant development stride in Akwa Ibom State during his tenure as governor as second to none. President Buhari stated this in his felicitation message to the former governor of...
By EFFIONG BASSEY, Uyo – The former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator odswill Akpabio, has said he would approach the Supreme Court to seek redress over Appeal Court judgement nullifying his election as All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Akwa Ibom North West in 2023 election. Senator Akpabio,...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has again denied recognizing the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan representing Yobe North and Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom North West as Senatorial candidates for 2023 general election. INEC also denied doctoring and backdating documents to accommodate the nominations...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Former Deputy Speaker of Cross River State House of Assembly, Hon. Orok Otu Duke has raised an alarm over irregularities in the annual distribution of rice consignments from the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Hon. Duke, who is the state coordinator of the programme, said...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has commenced the distribution of N10 million worth of rice across the 196 political wards in Cross River State. Flagging off the distribution exercise in Calabar, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress APC, Prince Orok Otu Duke, said...