Mr Kenneth Imansuagbon, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo, has labelled those calling for the zoning of the 2023 Presidential ticket as enemies of the country. Imasuangbon made this assertion in a statement made available to newsmen on Thursday in Benin. He said the country...
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The Police in Akwa Ibom have confirmed the killing of Chief Bassey Emah, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. “We received report that gunmen killed Emah,’’ SP Odiko Macdon, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
A former Chairman and National Secretary of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje, has said that the party constitution allow zoning of political offices. Baraje, the new ‘Tafida of Ilorin’, made this known on Wednesday while addressing journalists in his residence in Ilorin preparatory to his...
Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege, says All Progressives Congress (APC) will takeover Delta in 2023, going by recent developments. Omo-Agege said this on Wednesday in Asaba, at the inauguration of the state APC executives, at the party secretariat in Asaba. “Let me start by saying that am full of...
The Zamfara Chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) says Gov. Bello Matawalle, would not resign his position as the state governor, as demanded by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The PDP had urged the governor to resign following his defection from PDP to APC, as well as his inability to...
The Zamfara House of Assembly declared in Gusau on Tuesday that no court order could stop its impeachment of the state’s Deputy Governor, Alhaji Mahdi Aliyu-Gusau. “No court can stop the impeachment,’’ Chairman, House Committee on Information, Alhaji Shamsudeen Bosko, told a news conference. He argued that the process...
A group, Coalition of Saraki Advocates (COSA), Kaduna State Chapter, has supported the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on its plan not to zone the 2023 presidential election to any of the six geo-political zones. The State Coordinator of COSA, Yasir Kamal, in an interview with the News Agency of...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described its return to power in the Abuja Municipal Council (AMAC) of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as a sign of victory for the 2023 general elections. The PDP National Chairman, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, in a statement he issued on Sunday, in Abuja,...
PATRICK ABANG Calabar – Ahead of the February 26th byelection in the Akpabuyo State Constituency, the Chairman of Akpabuyo LGA of Cross River State, Emmanuel Bassey has raised an alarm over plans by the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to bring machineries to Akpabuyo to disrupt the polls. Hon....
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stakeholders in Oji-River Local Government Area of Enugu State have said they are 100 per cent behind Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi in the forthcoming local council elections. The stakeholders disclosed this on Friday at a rally in the council area, ahead of the Feb. 23...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – A governorship aspirant and caucus leader of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Akpabuyo LGA of Cross River, Sir Arthur Jarvis Archibong has raised an alarm over plot by some state actors to intimidate and harass the party before and during the February 26 by-election...
Former Aviation Minister and a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Osita Chidoka, says the main opposition party is in a dilemma over the zoning of presidency to any region. Chidoka, who spoke during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today, said he would personally want the PDP...
BY SAA-AONDO ADZEGEH and PHILIP AGADA, Markudi – In the build up to the 2023 general election, Benue State is witnessing a gale of decampments sweeping across the state with thousands cross carpeting into the two major political parties in the state, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the...
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has said Nigeria is bleeding under the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government. Governor Wike stated this on Monday during a visit to former Governor of Kaduna State, Senator Ahmed Makarfi at his residence in Kaduna. Wike said Nigerians were yearning for the Peoples...
Federal High Court sitting in Gusau, Zamfara, on Monday struck out the suit filed against Gov Bello Matawalle and four others for defecting to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in June 2021. Justice Aminu Bappah Aliyu while ruling on the suit on Monday said the court lacked jurisdiction to...
The Zamfara House of Assembly has formally served the state’s Deputy Governor, Alhaji Mahdi Aliyu-Gusau, with notice of impeachment for alleged gross abuse of office. Alhaji Shamsudeen Bosko, the Chairman, House Standing Committee on Information, confirmed this at a news conference in Gusau on Monday. Alhaji Bosko said the...
Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, has called on politicians in the state to join hands, irrespective of their political differences, and fight insecurity in the state. Governor Tambuwal made the call during a consultation meeting with the People Democratic Party (PDP) delegates in Gusau on Monday. He said the...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has cautioned the Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle, for allegedly stoking and inducing violence in the state by orchestrating and manipulating the State House of Assembly to commence an illegal and undemocratic process of impeachment against the democratically elected Deputy Governor of Zamfara State,...
By JIMIN GEOFFREY, Markudi – Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has told former Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar that people of the state are not happy with him for abandoning them during their trying times. Governor Ortom spoke on Sunday at the Benue Peoples House when he...
By YEMI ITODO, Abuja – Benue State Governor, Dr. Samuel Ortom, was on Friday appointed by the National Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to head a crack team of proven election winners on the party’s campaign council for the forthcomingLocal Council Elections in the Federal Capital Territory...