A Fulani socio-cultural group, known as Fulbe North East group, has endorsed the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, for the 2023 general elections. Musa Ardo, the spokesperson of the group, who made the declaration in Yola on Wednesday, said their decision was due...
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Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa and Vice-Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the party will tackle security challenge and poverty bedevilling the country, if given the mandate in 2023. Okowa stated this when he spoke with newsmen on Sunday in Abuja, after participating at the St. James Anglican...
The Director-General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Osita Okechukwu, says former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar’s moves to reconcile with Gov. Nyesom Wike’s group in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is belated. Okechukwu said this when he responded to the statement by Atiku that the ruling APC was a contraption of...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State on Friday inaugurated a 103-member campaign committee to mobilise votes for the party, ahead of the 2023 general elections. The party’s Assistant Legal Adviser, Mr Mustapha Okandeji, who inaugurated the committee in Ikeja, urged them to labour night and day to...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has said that his administration will increase empowerment for women, if elected president in next year’s general election. Atiku stated this on Friday during the unveiling of the strategic communications brand of his presidential campaign in Abuja. The event,...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has welcomed reports that Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers was favourably disposed to the resolution of the party’s internal rift. Alhaji Abubakar said this in a statement by issued by his Media...
The Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) Presidential Campaign Council said it was compiling evidence to lodge formal complaint to security agencies on recent attacks on the party’s campaigns in Kaduna and Borno states. The council’s Director, Strategic Communications, Mr Dele Momodu, told newsmen on Thursday in Abuja, that the party...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, on Wednesday, made a u-turn and apologized to Nigerians over his perceived ‘anti-fulani’ comments. Recall that two days ago, the Benue State governor, had said that he would not support a Fulani man to become President when his people...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Armed thugs have attacked the convoy of the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar in Borno State. It was gathered that the thugs carrying APC flags threw stones and other dangerous objects on the convoy of the PDP presidential candidate....
Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue alongside three other People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday paid solidarity visit to their counterpart of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ortom was accompanied in the visit by Nyesome Wike of Rivers, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia and...
By HARUNA AHMED, Birnin Kebbi – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rescheduled the campaign visit of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, its presidential candidate to Kebbi State from Nov. 12 to Jan. 28. This is according to a statement issued on Wednesday in Birnin Kebbi by the Chairman of...
Some of the governors in Nyesom Wike’s camp will support the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar. This is according to the spokesman of the Atiku/PDP Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) Dino Melaye. The main opposition party has been in crisis following Atiku’s victory at the presidential primary...
Ordinarily, the hidden hands of an ancient Italian devious thinker should have no relevance to Nigeria’s 2023 election. But Machiavelli lived in a bad time and in a treacherous political terrain pretty much like the Nigeria of 2022. Like in the Florentine city state, our politics has been reduced...
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, of Delta and the Vice-Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged members in the state to settle differences among them to remain a stronger family. Okowa gave the advice in Asaba shortly after the inauguration of the campaign council of the party in...
The presidential candidate of the Labour party, Peter Obi on Tuesday defined the ‘deal’ he has with some aggrieved governors of the Peoples Democratic Party. He was speaking in Makurdi during a visit to Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom. Mr Obi said he and the PDP Governors have a...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says its ‘covenant with Nigerians’ will not only bring Nigeria out of poverty but also herald an era of prosperity and sustainable development in a PDP government, come 2023. Mr Dele Momodu, the Director, Strategic Communications of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council, stated this...
The Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organization has assured that the foreign engagements by the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, will yield unprecedented investment inflow in Nigeria. The Spokesperson of the Organisation, Kola Ologbondiyan, gave the assurance in a statement he issued on Sunday in Abuja....
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Thursday arrived in Washington DC, United States on a working visit. Mr Paul Ibe, Media Adviser to Atiku disclosed this in a statement issued on Friday in Abuja....
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has said that his government would retool Nigeria’s disaster awareness apparatus if given the opportunity. Atiku, according to his verified social media account (Twitter), said this when he visited Yenagoa, the Bayelsa Capital, to have a personal experience...
Sen. Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate, All Progressives Congress (APC), says women’s matter will be prioritised if elected the president in the 2023 general elections Tinubu spoke, on Tuesday, at the Voice of Women (VOW) 2022 Conference and Awards organised by Women Radio 91.7FM supported by MacArthur Foundation in Abuja....