The governor of Akwa Ibom State, Umo Eno, has directed all his commissioners and appointees to either defect with him to the All Progressives Congress (APC) or resign from their positions. Governor Eno gave the directive during the State Executive Council on Thursday, confirming what has been circulating as...
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Members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Reconciliation and Strategy Committee, led by a former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Friday visited Gov. Peter Mbah of Enugu State over the party’s crisis. Other members of the committee are former governors of Bayelsa and Gombe states, Mr Seriake Dickson and...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra has rejected any planned political coalitions with other political parties and strongly advises its members and stakeholders to steer clear of such coalitions. The party made this known in a communique issued at the end of an enlarged meeting of the State...
Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the state government to obey court rulings reinstating elected local government chairmen in the state. Chairman of the PDP Caretaker Committee, Dr Tony Aziegbemi, made the call at a a news conference on Wednesday in Benin. According...
South East Zonal Executive Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has re nominated former National Youth Leader, Sunday Udeh-Okoye as the party’s National Secretary. Senate Minority Leader Osita Ngwu, presented the resolution of the caucus to the party acting National Working Committee (NEWC), in Abuja. Ngwu recalled efforts...
Senate caucus of the Peoples’ Democratic Party(PDP), has assured its members that the party remains strong, contrary to insinuations that it is in shreds and at the verge of collapse. Minority Leader of the PDP in the Senate, Sen. Abba Moro gave the assurance at a news conference in...
The Obidient Movement says Mr Peter Obi, the Labour Party (LP) standard bearer of the 2023 general election is still with the party and has not joined any coalition. The Director, Strategic Communication and Media, Obidient Movement, Nana Kazaure, made this known in a statement signed on Monday in...
Deputy Speaker of the Edo House of Assembly, Mrs Maria Oligbi-Edeko (PDP- Esan North East II) has voluntarily resigned her position due to the minority status of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Assembly. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Oligbi-Edeko was elected Deputy Speaker of the...
A chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State, Mr Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, has urged opposition parties to stop blaming President Bola Tinubu for the defection of their members to the ruling party. Oyintiloye, a former lawmaker, made the remarks while speaking with journalists on Sunday in Osogbo. The...
The 2023 PDP Governorship Candidate in Lagos State and Lead Visioner of the Lagos4Lagos Movement, Dr Abdul-Azeez Adediran (Jandor), has said his assignment presently is working towards the re-election of President Bola Tinubu in 2027. Adediran said this during a rally to announce his return to the APC in...
The South-East bloc of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has threatened to reconsider its relationship with the party if the zone was denied the position of the party’s National Secretary. This is contained in a communiqué issued at the end of South-East PDP Zonal Executive Committee (ZEC) meeting held on...
A former Labour Party (LP) Governorship Candidate in Bayelsa, Mr Udengs Eradiri, has called on Gov. Douye Diri and his predecessor, Sen. Seriake Dickson, to integrate the Ijaw nation into the government at the centre. Eradiri, in a statement on Wednesday in Yenagoa, told the two political leaders that...
Leader of the Senate Opeyemi Bamidele, has said that President Bola Tinubu was not coercing opposition lawmakers to defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) contrary to public criticism. He said this during plenary on Tuesday, while justifying the defection of all the three Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)...
The three Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senators from Kebbi, on Tuesday, defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that their letters of defection were read separately on the floor of the chamber by Deputy Senate President, Jibrin Barau, who presided over...
The three Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senators from Kebbi, who defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), have expressed reasons for their actions. The senators – Adamu Aliero (Kebbi Central); Yahaya Abdullahi (Kebbi North) and Garba Maidoki (Kebbi South), announced their defections at the plenary on Tuesday. The...
Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has fixed Saturday for primaries to choose candidates for the July 12 Local Government election in the state. The State PDP Vice Chairman (Central), Mr Hakeem Olalemi, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on...
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday inaugurated 39 new members of it’s Board of Trustees (BoT). The BoT Chairman, Sen. Adolphus Wabara, while inaugurating the new members at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja, said that they were nominees of states and zones. Wabara said that the nomination of...
The demand by the Ondo South Senatorial District for the chairmanship position of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is generating tension within the party in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that PDP has, of recent, been facing some challenges, as its members are defecting in droves...
The Peoples Democratic Party Governors Forum (PDP-GF) and former governors have named former Senate President Bukola Saraki as the head of a seven-member reconciliation committee. The PDP-GF Chairman, Gov. Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State, announced this while briefing newsmen after the forum’s crucial meeting with former governors, on Sunday...
The governors elected on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are currently in a closed-door meeting with some former governors to discuss the party’s affairs, including its current leadership crisis. The meeting of the PDP Governors’ Forum (PDP-GF), holding at the Bauchi Governor’s Lodge in Abuja, is being...