The Court of Appeal on Tuesday nullified the participation of the PDP and its Senatorial candidate in the Feb.25 National Assembly Election, Napoleon Bali for the Plateau South Senatorial District of Plateau State on grounds of refusal to carry out the order of Court.Pdp The Appellate Court in...
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The House of Representatives Committee on Financial Crimes has declared its commitment to root out the enablers of financial crimes and criminal activities in the country. The committee also asserted that the 10th National assembly would not tolerate corruption. Rep. Ginger Obinna, Chairman of the committee, made this...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed confidence of winning the Saturday’s Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi governorship election. The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Mr Debo Ologunagba, said this at news conference on Tuesday in Abuja. He said that apart from being PDP strongholds, the party’s governorship candidates in...
Lagos State and National Appeal Court sitting in Lagos on Tuesday reserved ruling in the appeal filed by the Labour Party and the Peoples Democratic party (PDP) against the re-election of Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu. The Labour Party candidate, Mr Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour and Mr Abdulazeez Adediran of PDP, are...
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the principal opposition party, should have had the simplest time winning the Nigerian presidential election in 2023. Muhammadu Buhari’s unprecedentedly bad and divisive leadership served as a powerful campaign against the All Progressives Congress, APC. To effortlessly retake control of the centre, the...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, made an order of perpetual injunction restraining the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) from further disclaiming the certificate of national service number: A808297 issued to Gov. Peter Mbah of Enugu State. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgment, also awarded N5 million...
A former Senator representing Enugu-North Senatorial District of Enugu State, Sen. Chukwuka Utazi, has said he quit the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) because the “ideals that attracted him to the party have receded into oblivion”. The Senator, who represented the district between 2015 and 2023, submitted his resignation...
A Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), on Sunday expressed concern over what it termed as “contradictory judgments” by the Plateau State Election Petitions Tribunal. Its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, at a news conference in Abuja on Sunday, said there was need for...
It’s worth noting that this article was originally published on December 3, 2017, yet its relevance persists to this day. The Peoples Democratic Party The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is not seriously planning to return to power. It is more focused on the inordinate ambitions of...
The Leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) North-West zone, has condemned the conduct of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Government in Zamfara State on matters relating to the immediate past Governor of the State and current Minister of State, Defence, Mr Bello Matawalle. APC National Vice Chairman,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division on Thursday affirmed Senator Kaka Shehu Lawan of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of February 25 senatorial election for the Borno Central senatorial seat. The court held that the appellants (Barrister Mohammed Kumalia and...
The Labour Party (LP) says the ranking of Bayelsa as the second poorest state in Nigeria is a sign of failure by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led administration in the state. The state LP candidate for the Nov. 11 governorship poll, Mr Udengs Eradiri, said this...
The Appeal Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, vacated the judgment of a Federal High Court, Abuja which nullified Mr Timipre Sylva’s candidacy for All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Nov. 11 Bayelsa governorship election. The three-member panel, in a unanimous judgment read by Justice Binta Zubairu, held that Mr...
By BARBARA KALU, Yenagoa – The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State has hailed the judgment of the Court of Appeal setting aside the disqualification Chief Timipre Sylva, the governorship candidate of the party from the Nov 11 poll. Bayelsa State APC Publicity Secretary, Mr Doifie...
President Bola Tinubu has intervened in the crisis rocking the executive and the legislature in Rivers. Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State stated this while briefing State House Correspondents after a closed-door session with Tinubu, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Tuesday. “We had a...
The Court of Appeal, Abuja, on Tuesday, affirmed the election victory of Natasha Akpoti-Uduagan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner of the Kogi Central Senatorial election held in February. The three-member panel, in a judgment, upheld the judgment of the state’s election tribunal and dismissed...
The National and State House of Assembly Elections Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abeokuta on Monday dismissed the petition filed against the Speaker of Ogun House Assembly, Olakunle Oluomo. In dismissing the petition filed by the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), the tribunal affirmed that Oluomo was a duly elected...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has advised former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Candidate in the Feb. 25 presidential election, to accept his defeat as an elder statesman. The APC National Publicity Secretary, Mr Felix Morka, gave...
The presidential candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar says he “is not going away’’, but will continue to work to deepen democracy and rule of law. Abubakar, the former Vice President, said this on Monday in Abuja at a world...
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, on Monday, challenged the state House of Assembly to make public his offences that warrant impeachment proceedings against him. Fubara issued the challenge in a statement issued in Port Harcourt by his Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Media, Mr Boniface Onyedi,...