The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Niger State has urged the Police command in the state to investigate alleged discovery of a Situation Room containing electoral materials and INEC ad-hoc staff. The state PDP Chairman, Mr Tanko Berji, made the call during a news conference at the party’s secretariat...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Borno State, Alhaji Mohammed Ali Jajari has denied the rumour making the round in the state, that he has step down for the All Progressive Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate, Babagana Zulum. Alhaji Jajari, who disclosed this...
Members of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) are currently staging a protest in Abuja over the outcome of the February 25, 2023 presidential election. The protesting PDP members are being led by the party’s presidential candidate in the last election, Atiku Abubakar, the party’s chairman Iyiocha Ayu, Sokoto state...
The Labour Party (LP) in Delta State has disassociated itself from rumours making the rounds that it is negotiating with Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa ahead of the March 11 governorship election in the state. State chairman of the Party, Chief Tony Ezeagwu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in...
A Federal High Court, Abuja has fixed May 31 for judgment in a suit filed by Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers praying for an order restraining the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from suspending or expelling him from the party. Justice James Omotosho fixed the date on Monday after counsel...
The former governor of Enugu State, Sullivan Chime, has endorsed Dr Peter Mbah the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the March 11 Governorship and State Assembly elections. The former governor made his stand known in his Enugu residence during an interactive session between Mbah and...
By MARK JANG, Jos – The Spokesperson of ‘Generation Next Campaign Council’, Mr Shittu Bamayi, says no governorship candidate in Plateau can match the credentials of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Dr Nentawe Yilwatda. Bamayi in statement on Monday in Jos, said that Yilwatda’s pedigree, intellect, exposure and...
Mr Kelvin Chibuzor Chukwu, younger brother of late Oyibo Chukwu, has been elected to be the Labour Party (LP) candidate for Enugu East Senatorial Zone in the March 11 rescheduled senatorial election. It would be recalled that Barr. Oyibo Chukwu was allegedly assassinated by unknown assailants along Amaechi-Agbani Road...
A former presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Moses Ayom, has appealed to Benue residents to replicate the victory recorded by the party in the Presidential and National Assembly elections on March 11. Ayom made the call while inaugurating the Independent Campaign Council...
Chief Ifeanyichukwuma Odii, the candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi in the upcoming governorship election has promised to prioritise the welfare of workers if elected. The PDP standard-bearer made the promise when he met recently with the workers at the party’s governorship campaign office in Abakaliki. The...
Labour Party (LP) in Oyo State on Sunday in Ibadan adopted Gov. Seyi Makinde of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as its candidate for the March 11 governorship election. LP chairman, Mr Sadiq Atayese, told a news conference that the state’s Working Committee of the party believed in the...
The Abia chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has formally reacted to the outcomes of the Presidential and National Assembly elections, describing them as unacceptable to the party. The party made the disclosure in a statement issued by the Vice Chairman/Acting State Publicity Secretary of the party, Chief...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court (FHC), Justice John Tsoho,, says the court would on March 31, commence its Easter Vacation. Justice Tsoho, in a statement, titled: “Notification of 2023 Easter Vacation and Roaster for Vacation Judges”, and signed Dr Catherine Oby-Christopher,...
Mr Osita Okechukwu, Director-General, Voice of Nigeria (VON) has criticised the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubkar, for making false claims about the Feb. 25 presidential poll. Okechukwu in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, said Atiku’s desperation and crass opportunism led to PDP’s defeat at...
By OLA MUDOPE, Osogbo – Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke has appealed to residents of the state to avoid violence at the March 11, House of Assembly elections. Governor Adeleke, who made the call in a statement issued on Sunday in Osogbo by his media aide, Malam Olawale Rasheed,...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to reveal plans his administration is taking to obey the recent Supreme Court order on the naira redesign. Last week, the Supreme Court extended the validity of the old N200, N500, and...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State, have assured Igbo Community of peaceful atmosphere to cast their votes during the March 11 governorship election in the state. The governor gave the assurance during an event organized by the Igbo Community at Igbo Community Hall in...
Mr Ade Omole, the Director of Diaspora Directorate, All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), has called on opposition political leaders to embrace Sen. Bola Tinubu as Nigeria’s president-elect. He made the appeal while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja. Omole urged...
By PATRICK ABANG Calabar – Ahead of the governorship elections on March 11, 2023, Students Leadership Forum, National Association of Cross River State Students, NACRISS World Wide and the National Association of Nigerian students NANS and other students bodies in the state have endorsed the governorship candidate of the...
The All Progressive Congress (APC) in Niger State has suspended the state Chairman, Haliru Zakari Jikantoro over alleged anti-party activities during the just-concluded presidential and National Assembly elections. The Kashini ward executive of the party in the Agwara Local Government Area of the state suspended Jikantoro, accusing him of...