Browsing: Willy Ezugwu

In a statement issued in Abuja by its Secretary General, Chief Willy Ezugwu, the umbrella body of all registered political parties and associations in Nigeria, noted that “the continued resort to external borrowing at the slightest challenge is not healthy for the country’s future”.

Expressing its preparedness to align with all forces of pro-democracy and civil society groups to ensure that the sponsors of the bill are probed, the CNPP demanded that the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, immediately step aside to pave the way for unhindered investigation

The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties has thrown its weight behind the call by the Inter-Party Advisory Council on the Independent National Electoral Commission to immediately rescind the appointment of Hajiya Amina Zakari as the chairperson of the Committee on National Collation Centre.

Following reports of alleged opposition to the emergence of a former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, as the running mate to the Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate for the 2019 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, a pan-Igbo sociopolitical pressure group, the South East Revival Group, described the purported move by some leaders in the region as “selfish and counterproductive”.