By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Forum of Serving and Former House of Representatives members, has called on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to jettison the idea of zoning the 2023 presidential ticket to any region in the country. The spokesman of the Mr Mukhtar Ahmed, who made the...
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A group, called Igbos for Progressive and United Nationhood (IPAN) has urged the pan-Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, not to blackmail presidential aspirants from other zones. The National President of the group, Mr Lawrence Onuzulike, made the call on Thursday at a news conference in Awka. Onuzulike said that...
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has appointed Elder Shuaibu Oyedokun and former Governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola to Co-Chair a committee to resolve all issues ahead of the party’s July 16 governorship election in the state. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr Debo Ologunagba, told journalists at...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Councilors from Bakassi Local Government Legislative Council have impeached its leader, Emmanuel Effion for failure to defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), ahead of the by-election for Akpabuyo State Constituency It was gathered that the leader of Bakassi LG legislative council, who represent...
File photo of elder statesman, Edwin Clark Ahead of the 2023 general elections, elder statesman Edwin Clark has asked the North to allow the South to produce Nigeria’s President. Although two dominant political parties – the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)...
By EMEKA CHIKWE, Port-Harcourt – Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has dismissed the rumours making the rounds about him being the running mate to presidential aspirant, Atiku Abubakar, in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Governor Wike stated this on Tuesday during a stakeholders meeting of Rivers State PDP Chapter...
Former Governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi says he will contest in the 2023 presidential election if his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), throws it open for all to contest or zones it to the south. Obi, who was PDP’S vice-presidential candidate in the 2019 presidential polls,...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Following calls from diverse quarters asking Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal to join the race for 2023 presidency, the governor has declared that he will begin consultations across the length and breath of the country to the end of February before taking any...
In this dispensation, I honestly crave for a repeat of the political contestation between the late Chief Tony Anenih and Chief Tom Ikimi in Edo State during the ill-fated Third Republic. This could spice up the 2023 political contestation between the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) and the opposition...
Sen. Datti Baba-Ahmed on Sunday declared interest to vie for the Governorship Seat of Kaduna State, under the platform of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) during the 2023 General Elections. Speaking while submitting his letter of interest to the leadership of the PDP in Kaduna, Baba-Ahmed, who is the...
Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed has cautioned members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to shun acts of bitterness, destruction of political posters and banners of opposition candidates in the state. Governor Mohammed, who made the call at a PDP stakeholders’ meeting, on Saturday in Bauchi. warned that his...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) women have vowed to mobilize over 45 million young Nigerian women to support the women folks in the forth coming 2023 general elections and to champion the marginalisation of women. The women under the aegis of PDP Angels and...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) led Federal Government of a plot to siphon N3 trillion under the guise of financing fuel subsidy. The National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, who stated this in a statement on Thursday,...
The Ebonyi chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has charged the opposition-People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the state to engage in constructive opposition. The state APC Chairman, Chief Stanley Okoro-Emegha, said this on Thursday in Abakaliki, while reacting to a report in a section of the media, captioned...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has approved Saturday, Feb. 19, for the conclusion of its outstanding State Congress for the purpose of electing new State Executive Committee members in Lagos State The PDP National Organising Secretary, Umar Bature,...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Ahead of the 2023 general election, a fledging political support group with the vision of restoring the eroding glory of Cross River State is set for formal inauguration at Ogoja Local Government Area. The official launching of the group known as Reclaim Cross River has...
The Ekiti State Police Command, on Wednesday confirmed the arrest of 105 people suspected to be political thugs travelling to Ekiti for the gubernatorial primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). ASP. Sunday Abutu, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the command, made this known to newsmen in...
Nigerians are particularly not happy that the All Progressive Congress (APC) led Federal Government which lavishly promised Nigerians ‘ ‘change’ and were voted to provide good and qualitative leadership; elected to bring the nation’s economy out of the woods and were chosen to bring democracy’s dividends to the people....
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has nullified its Jan. 15 three-man Ad-hoc Ward Delegate Congresses in Ekiti State. The party disclosed this in a statement, jointly signed by its National Chairman, Sen. Iyorchia Ayu, and the National Secretary, Sen. Samuel Anyanwu, on resolutions...
Former Commissioner for Information, Edo State, Prince Kassim Afegbua, has advised the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to follow the mood in the country by producing a young Southerner as its presidential candidate in 2023. Afegbua, a member of PDP, gave the advice in a statement he issued on Sunday...