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  • Moghalu laments too many scammers in Nigerian politics after losing ADC presidential ticket

    Moghalu laments too many scammers in Nigerian politics after losing ADC presidential ticket

    Former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Kingsley Moghalu has reacted after losing the presidential ticket of the African Democratic Congress (ADC).

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Moghalu made this known on his Twitter page in which he wrote, “Too many scams & scammers in Nigerian politics. Whether it is poverty or a collapse of values, one is not sure”.

    Moghalu had lost the 2023 presidential ticket of the ADC to a media entrepreneur, Dumebi Kachikwu.

    “Not sure because some of the scammers are people who are not exactly begging for food, but have depraved mindsets that worship money. Is poverty then really the cause?,” Moghalu added.

  • BREAKING: Kachikwu floors Moghalu, others to clinch ADC Presidential ticket

    BREAKING: Kachikwu floors Moghalu, others to clinch ADC Presidential ticket

    Mr Dumebi Kachikwu, the Founder of Roots Television, Nigeria, has clinched the African Democratic Congress (ADC), presidential ticket for the 2023 General Elections.

    Kachikwu secured 978 votes to beat his closest rivals, Kingsley Moghalu and Chukwuka Monye, who polled 589 and 339 votes, respectively.

    Retired Maj.- Gen. Ekundayo Opaleye, Chairman of the party’s National Convention Committee, announced the result on Thursday.

    The convention was held at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta, Ogun.

    A total of 10 aspirants participated in the primary, including five females, and a person with special needs, Dr Chike Okogwu, who stepped down after addressing the delegates.

    A total of 2,040 delegates from across the country were accredited by the convention committee to elect the party’s presidential candidate.

    Kachikwu in his acceptance speech, commended the party for organising quality primary election devoid of monetisation.

    He appreciated party members for electing him as presidential candidate, and assured them that he would continue to project the good image of the ADC, and woo voters ahead of the elections.

    The ADC National Chairman, Chief Ralph Nwosu, lamented that the two main political parties in the country had failed to provide good leadership for Nigerians over the years.

    Nwosu said that the ADC was on a rescue mission to save Nigeria, and planned to win 70 per cent of legislative seats at state and federal levels during the 2023 elections.

    “The ADC is ready to salvage Nigeria, and that is why we will be bringing in technocrats to take over the reins of power,” he said.

    The event was witnessed by INEC officials, security agents and party faithful.

  • 2023: Methodist bishop emerges Abia ADC Guber Candidate

    Bishop Sunday Onuoha of the Methodist Church Nigeria on Saturday emerged as the Governorship Candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) for the 2023 general elections in Abia.

    Onuoha polled 330 votes to defeat his rival, Mr Otisi Ukiwe.

    The 41-year-old son of the former Military Vice President, Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe (rtd.), polled 160 votes.

    The Returning Officer, Mr Nkem Ukandu, who declared the result, returned the cleric as the duly elected Governorship Candidate of the party.

    In a post-election speech, Onuoha congratulated Otisi for being part of the contest.

    He promised to run an all-inclusive government, if elected.

    He said that his emergence marked a new beginning for Abia.

    “Abia people have spoken this night. They said they want a man of integrity, honesty and vision to lead them.

    “They said they want a paradigm shift and I hereby offer myself to serve,” the clergyman said.

    The exercise, which took place at Kolpin Society, Umuahia under heavy presence of security operatives, was hitch-free.

    It attracted an unprecedented number of Persons Living with Disabilities (PWDs) from across party lines.

    Meanwhile, the state President of the Joint National Association of PWDs, Mr Wisdom Kalu, in an interview said that they came to show solidarity to the clergyman.

    Kalu said: “All our members are here to show solidarity to the bishop, in spite of our party affiliations

    “Only 76 members of our association, who are card-carrying members of ADC, voted as party delegates

    “What you are seeing today is a reward to the bishop, who has never stopped to show us love and care, even when others abandoned us.

    “For us, this is a pay back time.”

    Another member of the association, Mr Chukwuemeka Anyim, said he was happy and excited over the cleric’s victory.

    Anyim said that he was also happy because “this is the first time PWDs in Abia would participate in the primary election of any political party in the state”.

    Anyim, therefore, urged other parties to emulate ADC by involving PWDs actively in their activities.

  • ADC presidential candidate to emerge on June 8 – National Chairman

    ADC presidential candidate to emerge on June 8 – National Chairman

    The African Democratic Congress (ADC) plans to hold its National Convention on June 8 in Abeokuta, Ogun, to elect its presidential candidate for 2023 general elections, an official has said.

    Chief Ralph Nwosu, the National Chairman of the party said this on Tuesday in Abuja when he hosted the party’s third presidential aspirants’ forum with the theme: “Leading Forward with Knowledge-driven Collegiate Presidency”.

    “ADC is poised to rescue Nigeria from the elite who are neck bent on frustrating the electorate and the masses as a whole,” he said.

    Nwosu said that the party would not allow itself to be hijacked by moneybags, ahead of the 2023 general elections.

    He appreciated the party’s presidential aspirants for showing their nation building prowess and willingness to work together as a team to salvage the country.

    According to him, this is unlike what the Nigerian political structure is used to.

    Dr Chike Okogwu, one of the party’s presidential aspirants while speaking with newsmen on the sideline of the event, said the ADC was working on building a political party that would carry all the people along.

    He said the party’s aspirants were working as a united front to bring about a new government that would enthrone good governance and improve the living conditions of Nigerians.

    “Persons with disability, women, the old, the vulnerable and the weak, everybody will be carried along, that is the kind of country we are working to achieve.

    “We need a united Nigeria, and that is what ADC is practicing and working to achieve, politics of unification and oneness.

    “We are not aspirants who are working against each other or bringing each other down, we are all working to achieve one common goal of making the country better for us,” he said.

    He said that Nigeria was divided across religious and ethnic lines, adding that there was need to unite the country in the interest of all.

    On the possibilities of having a concensus presidential candidate for 2023 poll, Okogwu said it would rather go through the process to bring up an acceptable candidate that would be supported by all members.

    “In ADC, there will be only one presidential candidate and we will all support whoever emerge to make sure that the party succeeds in enthroning a new government come 2023,” he said.

    The ADC has 12 presidential aspirants wishing to slug it out at the primaries.

    The aspirants included Prof. Kingsley Moghalu, Dr Mani Ibrahim, Mrs Joyce Nsaka, Dr Chike Okogwu, Dr Chukwuka Monye, Ms Angela Johnson, Mr Dumebi Kachikwu, and Ms Chichi Ojei

    Others were Dr Muhammed Lamido, Bishop Ify-George Oforkansi, Dr Favour Ayodele and Dr Ebiti Ndok Jegede.

    The event was attended by stakeholders including the Board of Trustees (BOT) Chairman, Sen.Patricia Akwashiki, Alhaji Abu Zachari, Mr Abayomi Runsewe, Mr Datta Amachree and Alhaji Ibrahim Suleiman among others.

  • Oyo South Senator, Balogun dumps PDP

    Oyo South Senator, Balogun dumps PDP

    Sen. Kola Balogun, representing Oyo South Senatorial District, has resigned his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

    This is contained in a statement signed by his Media Aide, Dapo Falade on Monday evening in Ibadan.

    Balogun, a younger brother of the Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Lekan Balogun, is the Vice-Chairman, Senate Committee on Sports and Youth Development.

    Balogun’s resignation was coming few days after he was denied a return ticket.

    The ticket had been handed to Chief Joseph Tegbe, who recently defected to the PDP from All Progressives Congress (APC).

    Balogun’s resignation from the PDP was contained in a letter dated April 28 and addressed to the chairman of the party in Ward 12, Ibadan North-East Local Government Area.

    He said that the letter was received and acknowledged by the PDP Ward Chairman, Tijani Wasiu, on April 29.

    He thanked the party for giving him the opportunity in the ninth Senate, saying his resignation took effect from April 28.

    Balogun said he enjoyed the cooperation of the PDP leadership and its members throughout the month of April and wished the party best of luck.

    “I, Sen. Kola Balogun, representing Oyo South Senatorial District in the ninth Senate, Federal Republic of Nigeria, hereby tender my membership resignation from PDP with effect from April 28.

    “I thank the party for giving me the opportunity to serve my people in the capacity of a senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and your cooperation which I enjoyed till the month of April 2022.

    “I wish the party the best of luck. I thank you,” Balogun said in the letter.

    Balogun was the only PDP senator from the state in the ninth senate until his resignation.

    Balogun’s resignation from the PDP is coming less than 48 hours after scores of PDP and ADC leaders defected to the APC in the state.

  • Anambra election: Why I’m supporting APGA – ADC candidate

    Anambra election: Why I’m supporting APGA – ADC candidate

    The governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Chief Akachukwu Nwakpo, said he supported and voted for All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the Ihiala supplementary election in Anambra, on Tuesday.

    Nwakpo disclosed this to newsmen after voting at his polling unit 004 Ward 01 at Umuatani Hall, Okija, in Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra.

    He said that the results of the election announced so far reflected the wish and mandate of the people.

    “We believe it is time to finish this election by helping the winning party to make it to the end, so that the military can leave and we can have a more relaxed environment for us to focus on issues that concern our communities.

    “Also, the leadership of my party, ADC, agreed with what we have done because we are not in the supplementary election and we did not score or get enough votes to be competitive.

    “APGA is also a sister party because the founding members of APGA founded ADC and I also came from APGA to ADC. More so, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo is my friend.

    “So, I feel this is an opportunity to support one another and for us to build together and let our people be part of governance,” he said.

    Nwakpo commended the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for ensuring the Bimodal Voters Accreditation system worked efficiently during the supplementary election.

    “My assessment is so far, so good. Our people are more relaxed, less nervous and enthusiastic to vote but INEC officials arrived late.
    “We were prepared to cast our votes since 10a.m but we were able to get accredited and vote at 2.p.m when they arrived.

    “The BVAs worked efficiently today compared to what was experienced on Nov.6,” he said.

    He also urged other governorship candidates and political parties to imbibe the spirit of sportsmanship, and be peaceful,” he said.

    Meanwhile, a large turnout of voters was reported across all polling units in Ihiala Local Government Area of the state.

  • How Governor Inuwa’s ADC, driver, others blocked my convoy, unleashed terror on me for hours – Senator Goje

    How Governor Inuwa’s ADC, driver, others blocked my convoy, unleashed terror on me for hours – Senator Goje

    Former Gombe Governor Senator Danjuma Goje has narrated how the aide-de-camp of Governor Inuwa Yahaya allegedly blocked and attacked his convoy while on his way to attend the wedding of his granddaughter, Fatima Abdullahi Musa in Gombe town.

    Goje, who is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Marine Transport, in a statement by his media aide, Lilian Nworie, in Abuja, said he arrived Gombe from Abuja via Gombe Airport in Lawanti, peacefully until the Governor’s aides blocked the road.

    “The Distinguished Senator’s trip was peaceful until when the governor’s aides, including his aide-de-camp and his personal driver, blocked the road. For two hours, they unleashed terror on Senator Goje and those in his convoy.

    “It is unfortunate that one life was lost and many cars vandalised including the Senator’s vehicle. They smashed the windscreen.

    “All efforts to make the Governor’s aide-de-camp remove the blockade yielded no result as he insisted that he got instruction from above that the former governor should not be allowed into the town,” Nworie said.

    She said the Governor’s driver, Aminu Hula and Gombe State APC Youth Leader, Kawu Lero have been arrested by the State Police Command.

    “They have been arrested but the aide-de-camp who led the people to attack the former governor had since returned to those who sent him.

    “The aide-de-camp said he was acting based on orders from the above. In this case, it is his boss, Gombe State Governor,” she said.

    She however said that the former Governor as a peace-loving leader of the State has urged his teeming supporters to be calm and law-abiding and called for an independent investigation of the incident.

    Ex-Gov behind the attacks – Gombe Government

    Meanwhile, the State Government, in a statement by the Commissioner for Information, Julius Ishaya Lepes, blamed Goje for the incident.

    The statement reads: “The former Governor, in his characteristic manner, decided to mobilise thugs from various LGAs armed to their teeth under the pretext of accompanying him from the airport into the State capital for reasons best known to him.

    “Recall that during the last Eid el-Kabir Sallah celebration, the same person sponsored some thugs that threw caution into the wind and went on a rampage, leading to loss of 2 lives. Also just last week at Deba in Yamaltu Deba LGA the same scenario played out at the instance of the Senator.

    “It is sad that Goje has not left his old ways and is bent on bringing back his brainchild (Kalare) to unleash mayhem and bug the peaceful atmosphere of Gombe State.”

    While sympathising with families of the five people killed and those who sustained injuries, the State Government commended security agencies for their timely intervention in bringing the ugly situation under control.

  • Moghalu joins new party in quest to become Nigeria’s president

    Moghalu joins new party in quest to become Nigeria’s president

    In his quest to become the President of Nigeria, Prof. Kingsley Moghalu, a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has joined a new political party.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Prof. Moghalu on Friday in Abuja announced his decision to join the African Democratic Congress (ADC) to pursue his presidential ambition in 2023.

    Moghalu, who also a lawyer and political economist, was a presidential candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) in the 2019 presidential election.

    He left the YPP in October 2019 and did not join any other party since then.

    “I am pleased to announce to you today that I have joined the African Democratic Congress (ADC) which I feel ideologically aligned with. I am honoured to become a card-carrying member of the party.

    “In doing so, I restate my public announcement on June 1, 2021, making myself available to lead our country as a competent, 21st century president and my intention to contest in the 2023 presidential election.

    “I look forward to close collaboration with the party’s chairman, Chief Ralph Okey Nwosu, Alhaji Said Abdullahi, the ADC National Secretary and the National Executive Committee, and Chair of its Board of Trustees among others,’’ he told a news conference.

    He added that his desire was to take Nigeria higher and make her the envy of other nations if he becomes the president.

    Moghalu noted that since its founding, in 2005 to date, including in the 2019 general election in which the ADC presented the late Dr Obadiah Mailafia as its presidential candidate, the party had remained consistent.

    He said the ADC had remained consistent in its commitment to the emergence of true democracy in Nigeria and to the role of belief, passion and idea in nation building.

    “The party has shunned `food-is-ready’ and divisive ethno-centric politics,’’ Moghalu stressed.

    According to him, Nigeria’s big political parties have failed Nigerians and voting for them again in 2023 will amount to a waste of votes.

    Moghalu said the ADC remained a key player in the efforts to create a new and bigger platform through merger of several political parties to take over power in 2023 to begin the work of rebuilding the country.

    He said he had been part of a group of individuals and political parties working towards the emergence of a “Third Force’’ in the country’s political space.

    He added that Nigerians were tired of the failure of traditional politics and were waiting eagerly for the emergence of such platform.

    “For the party’s growth and expansion in the months ahead, I ask all my political supporters, including those aspiring to be elected to gubernatorial positions and the national and state legislatures to join the ADC,’’ Moghalu said.

    While welcoming Moghalu to the party, Nwosu said he had returned to where he truly belonged.

    “He has found his way to where he truly belongs; our handshake as a party cuts across regions and sentiments and we will together build a better Nigeria for all.

    “We welcome you proudly because you are a distinguished Nigerian. We need servants and dedicated leaders like you to lead this country’’ the ADC chairman said.

    He added that the ADC had been working with other political parties and institutions to achieve its desire of enthroning a better Nigeria.

    TNG reports Moghalu had remained an influential voice on national issues, including the economy, nation-building and governance.

    He was recently identified as one of the leaders of an emerging “Third Force’’.

    He recently served as the Special Envoy of the UN on Post-COVID Development Finance for Africa.

    Moghalu’s new party fielded Prof. Pat Utomi as its candidate at the 2007 presidential election.

  • BREAKING: ADC 2019 presidential candidate, Mailafiya is dead

    BREAKING: ADC 2019 presidential candidate, Mailafiya is dead

    Mr. Obadiah Mailafiya, who contested the 2019 presidential election against President Muhammadu Buhari under the platform of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), is dead.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Mr. Mailafiya, who is a former official of the African Development Bank Group and one-time Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) died on Sunday.

    Mailafiya, who was persuaded to join politics after the famous historic “handshake” by the coalition of the Middle Belt Forum (MBF) and the South Afenifere of Yoruba land, Ohanaeze Ndigbo and PANDEF of Niger Delta, died at the National Hospital, Abuja after an undisclosed illness.

    Born 24 December 1956, Mailafiya, a graduate of Oxford University, was Deputy Governor of the CBN from 5 May 2005 to 26 March 2007.

  • Anambra Guber: APGA, PDP, APC not qualified to contest – ADC National Chairman

    Anambra Guber: APGA, PDP, APC not qualified to contest – ADC National Chairman

    The African Democratic Congress (ADC), says that the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC), should not contest in the Anambra governorship election.

    Mr Ralph Nwosu, National Chairman of the party, made the assertion at a news conference on Tuesday, in Awka.

    Nwosu said that the three political parties did not conduct proper primary elections to nominate their governorship candidates for the Nov. 6 election.

    “It will be the greatest injustice to have APGA, PDP and APC on the ballot paper in the Nov. 6 governorship election. History will record it as a disaster to our democracy.

    “They have no right to contest in the governorship election because their primaries were not properly conducted, they dishonoured party system and there was no clear congress that nominated their candidates.

    “The leadership crisis in these parties is beginning to show. Anambra has become a laughing stock in the country and it does not promote democracy,” he said.

    Nwosu said that ADC was one of the qualified parties to contest in the governorship election, saying that the party conducted one of the best and transparent primary elections in the country.

    He said that ADC had been recognised as the “Third Force’ and repositioned to salvage Anambra State in the forthcoming governorship election and the country at large.

    “Our DNA is about discipline, perseverance and transparency and the people are beginning to crave for a ‘Third Force’ after the two big parties in the country.

    “ADC is that ‘Third Force’. Go and check the facts, out of the total votes cast in the 2019 general elections, ADC came third.

    “If not for the problems of corruption and power of incumbency, ADC would have had about five governors in the 2019 general election.

    “We are relying on the will of the people to throw ADC up as the number one party in the country,” he said.

    Nwosu said that the party flag bearer, Chief Akachukwu Nwankpo, was committed to right the wrongs of decades and abuses of systems, institutions and processes in the state.

    “Nwankpo has keyed into ADC Pan-African and global vision. He has also agreed to make Anambra state the hub for commerce, tourism, medical excellence, research and innovation centre.

    “Anambra election is critical to addressing the many challenges in the country. Once we get it right in Anambra, it will reflect nationally,” he said.

    Recall that INEC had on July 16, published the list of candidates for the Nov. 6 election.

    Prominent names including that of Prof. Chukwuma Soludo and Mr Valentine Ozigbo who were expected to contest for APGA and PDP were missing.

    While Rep. Chukwuma Umeoji was listed for APGA, Sen. Andy Uba and Dr Akachukwu Nwankpo were listed for APC and ADC alongside their deputies.