…Meanwhile, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has cleared Kingsley Chinda for the 2027 governorship election in Rivers State. A strong ally of FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, Chinda was number 5 in the 19-man list released by the electoral commission. The former minority leader of the House of Representati…

The Independent National Electoral Commission included Chinda's name as the APC's governorship candidate for Rivers StateThe development is significant given Chinda's political background and the ongoing power struggle in Rivers StateThe inclusion raises questions about the APC's candidate selection process ahead of th…

…he said. Supreme Court judgment: Erring parties won’t field candidates – INEC on Chinda, others

…Rivers State governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Kingsley Chinda; Delta Central senatorial candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, Ovie Omo-Agege; former Cross River State governor and Peoples Redemption Party, PRP, presidential candidate, Donald Duke; and former Delta State House o…

…Hon. Aishatu Dukku (then Chairman, House Committee on Electoral Matters), Hon. Kingsley Chinda, as well as the one the Senate transmitted for concurrence. Despite the progress that was made at the Senate, the bill stalled, even as the then leadership of INEC publicly urged the National Assembly to speed up the legislat…

…included the governorship candidate of the APC in Rivers State, Kingsley Ogundu Chinda, among others. The committee was constituted by the Rainbow Coalition, led by Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, after Governor Fubara announced his return to his former political family. Wike’s Rainbow Coal…

…(APC) governorship primary after initially being screened alongside Wike ally Kingsley Chinda. The governor later endorsed Chinda as his preferred successor, saying his decision was made in the interest of peace, unity and political stability in Rivers State.Reflecting on the dispute, Wike said he had expected Fubara t…

…of the Rivers Medical Industries Project in Port Harcourt, where he endorsed Kingsley Chinda, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as his preferred successor. "We have made peace in the state, and we have a total agreement. I am supporting our rainbow party, our rainbow coalition. President Bo…

…“The shop belonging to the mother of the state coordinator of ACReSAL, Ibrahim Chinda, was demolished. The shop of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Mrs Laori Kwamoti, was also demolished. So where is the political vendetta?” he asked. Leneke said about 89 per cent of those whose shops were demolished were s…

…in the party's primaries withdrew from the contest thereby making Hon Kingsley Chinda the consensus candidate of the party, means he is widely accepted in Rivers State, consequently closing several legal gateway for other non affected parties to litigate. •Wobo Esq. lives in Port Harcourt.