…My suspension from APGA irrelevant, of no effect – Okorocha
OWERRI— The All Progressive Congress, APC, weekend, said the national chairman of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, Chief Victor Umeh, has capitulated to pressures from Governor Peter Obi to merge APGA into the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

A few days after five northern governors, Murtala Nyako, Aliyu Babangida, Sule Lamido, Magartakarda Wamakko and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, visited three former heads of states – Generals Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Babangida and Abdulsalam Abubakar – and the Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, over what they termed ‘consultation with stakeholders’, the Presidency took offence. The reason is that the seat of power sees the action of the governors as a stab on the back.

‘Close watchers of events in Anambra contend that the lack of geo-balance and respect for the sensibilities of the electorate in Anambra State by the key players in the newly formed All Progressive Congress (APC) is the greatest headache its most visible aspirant Dr Chris Ngige would have ‘

Mr Sylvester Okonkwo, a PDP aspirant for the governorship race in Anambra, said in Abuja on Saturday that he would not support the emergence of a consensus candidate by the party for the general election.

ALHAJI Bamaga Tukur, the former Chief Executive of the Nigerian Ports Authority, former Executive Governor of Gongola State, the only individual African to have been given the privileged opportunity to address the United Nations General Assembly in a personal capacity, is a household name around the world.