Rivers State born singer turned politician, Gift Uwame,
the one popularly called Muma Gee, is all set to represent her people
in the House of Representatives come 2015, after she emerged triumphant
at the Labour Party primary in the state, held on Tuesday, 9th December,
2014.
Muma Gee who
quietly decamped from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, after taking
the advice of her people and stakeholders going by the intrigues in the
party, pitched her tent with the not too popular LP and contested to
represent the Abua/Odua and Ahoada East LGA Federal Constituency 1.
Muma
Gee makes it the third entertainer to get a ticket to run in the 2015
general elections, joining the likes of Desmond Elliot who won the
ticket to go to the Lagos State House of Assembly on the platform of the
All Progressive Congress, and Funke Adesiyan, who will vie for the Oyo
State House of Assembly on the platform of the PDP.
Others
who fell on the wayside include actress Kate Henshaw, actor Kenneth
Okonkwo, singers Kenny Saint Best, 9ice and Tony Tetuila.
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