The Edo State House of Assembly under the leadership of the new Speaker, Rt. Hon. Victor Edoror with seventeen members of the 7th Assembly had their first sitting today.

The Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has faulted the meeting between President Muhammadu Buhari and the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu.

Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello has described the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as a roguish party which wanted to snatch away Edo State like “a pickpocket eyeing someone’s purse in the market”.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has alerted that Rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike, has commenced strategic planning for the 2023 general elections.

President Muhammadu Buhari has endorsed Osagie Ize-Iyamu, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for next month’s elections in Edo State.

The All Progressives Congress, Akwa Ibom State chapter has appointed Ita Udosen, the Deputy State Chairman as the Acting Chairman of the party in the state.

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, has reacted to the ongoing crisis in the Edo State House of Assembly.

Patrick Iyoha, Director, Obaseki/Shaibu Movement, a campaign group working for reelection of Edo Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has resigned.

Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has mocked his Deputy, Agboola Ajayi, ahead of the October 10 governorship election in the State.

Johnson Onuigbo, the Chairman of the Caretaker Executive Committee of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Abia State, has been confirmed dead.

A family source who pleaded anonymity during a chat with DAILY POST at the Umuobasi Ugba Umuahia Ibeku residence of the deceased, disclosed that the PDP chairman passed away on Monday evening.

The source, however, could not give further details as to the cause of the sudden demise of Chief Onuigbo.

His remains have been deposited at an undisclosed hospital mortuary in Umuahia, the capital city of Abia State.

Recall that Late Johnson Onuigbo, before his emergence as the Abia PDP Caretaker Executive Committee Chairman, was a former Transition Committee Chairman of Umuahia North Local Government Area and Abia central zonal vice Chairman of the party.

He was a prominent close ally of former Governor Theodore Orji, now the current Senator representing Abia central senatorial district of Abia State in the Nigeria Senate.

Onuigbo, until his unfortunate death, was also a member of the Knight of St Christopher, Umuahia Diocese, Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion.