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BREAKING NEWS: Ugochinyere Loses Minority Leader Bid in House of Reps
The lawmaker representing Ideato North/Ideato South Federal Constituency in Imo State, Ikeagwuonu Ugochinyere, has lost his bid to become the Minority Leader as the House barred first-term lawmakers from holding principal offices.
The House passed the resolution at plenary on Wednesday following the adoption of a motion sponsored by lawmaker representing Ikorodu Federal Constituency of Lagos, Babajimi Benson.
The resolution clarified Order 7, Rule 15 of the Standing Orders of the House of Representatives.
Order 7, Rule 15 of the Standing Orders of the green chamber states that only members with cognate legislative experience as members of the house of representatives shall be eligible for appointment as principal officers of the House.
Recall that some opposition lawmakers had last week nominated Ugochiyere for the Minority Leader position to succeed Kingsley Chinda, lawmaker representing Obio/Akpor federal Constituency, who vacated the role after emerging as the APC governorship candidate for Rivers state.
However, at plenary last Thursday, Philip Agbese, deputy spokesperson of the House and a member of the Labour Party, denied endorsing Ugochinyere to lead the Minority caucus.
Agbese alleged that his signature was forged on the document nominating Ugochinyere for the role, a claim the Action Peoples Party, APP, lawmaker dismissed as an outrageous lie.
Ugochinyere would later release a video to back his claim that Agbese signed the document endorsing him for the position of Minority Leader.
Edo North senator, Adams Oshiomhole, has playfully called out Senate President Godswill Akpabio for breaching truce over ‘massaging women’s legs’ comment.
At plenary on Thursday, Oshiomhole said he signed a truce of no more hostilities, stating that Akpabio breached the agreement by reverting to previous matters.
DAILY POST reports that Akpabio had mocked Oshiomhole over the viral video allegedly showing him massaging a woman’s leg aboard a private jet.
The Senate President stated that the Senate initially ignored the footage because it was suspected to have been generated using artificial intelligence, AI.
Recall that a video which surfaced on X on February 3, 2026, sparked widespread reactions after it allegedly showed the former Edo State governor massaging a woman’s leg inside a private jet, days later the lawmaker debunked the video stating that it was AI.
Joking over it at the plenary, Oshiomhole said, “I want to report to this house that the senate president and I we signed a truce of no more hostilities and senate president breach the truce by reverting to previous matter, the truce stands, you should not violate, I will not violate.”
Responding, Akpabio said, “Let me first of all apologize to Oshiomhole if whatever I said could in any way injure him or feel offended.”
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Members of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, loyal to the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, have taken over the secretariat of the party in Oyo State.
The secretariat, located in the Molete area of Ibadan, was in the custody of the faction loyal to Governor Seyi Makinde of the state until Thursday when the members loyal to Wike took over the premises.
DAILY POST gathered that the PDP members stormed the secretariat on Thursday and occupied the premises with hundreds of members of the party in attendance.
PDP chairman in the state, Professor Abdulrahman Akinoso, confirmed the development to DAILY POST.
Akinoso in a telephone conversation with DAILY POST on Thursday, insisted that the real owners have taken over the premises.
He said, “It is true. It is not faction. It is PDP. We have taken over the premises. It was in the morning. We were there in the morning. We just left the premises. We are now in control. We have taken over the premises.” .…For more, Complete your reading.
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