By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Cross River State Chapter has endorsed the governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Professor Sandy Onor. The PFN Chairman, Lawrence Ekwok, while addressing newsmen at the Assembly of God Church, Calabar, said a strategy committee made...
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Lagos PDP governorship candidate, Dr Abdul-Azeez Adediran (Jandor), and his running mate Ms Funke Akindele, say they are bound by their promises and will not let down the state’s residents if voted for. Adediran, represented by Akindele, made the pledge at a parley with businessmen and women from four...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has asked the Court of Appeal to vary the ex parte order made in favour of Labour Party and the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP), with regards to inspection of materials used for the presidential election. The News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN) reports that...
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Niger State has urged the Police command in the state to investigate alleged discovery of a Situation Room containing electoral materials and INEC ad-hoc staff. The state PDP Chairman, Mr Tanko Berji, made the call during a news conference at the party’s secretariat...
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday led officials of the party on a protest to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja over the Feb. 25 election. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that some of the officials included PDP National...
Members of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) are currently staging a protest in Abuja over the outcome of the February 25, 2023 presidential election. The protesting PDP members are being led by the party’s presidential candidate in the last election, Atiku Abubakar, the party’s chairman Iyiocha Ayu, Sokoto state...
A Federal High Court, Abuja has fixed May 31 for judgment in a suit filed by Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers praying for an order restraining the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from suspending or expelling him from the party. Justice James Omotosho fixed the date on Monday after counsel...
The former governor of Enugu State, Sullivan Chime, has endorsed Dr Peter Mbah the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the March 11 Governorship and State Assembly elections. The former governor made his stand known in his Enugu residence during an interactive session between Mbah and...
The Lagos State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it is not officially talking with the Labour Party (LP) for any possible alliance ahead of Saturday’s Governorship and House of Assembly elections. The Lagos PDP’s Publicity Secretary, Mr Hakeem Amode, disclosed this in a statement in Lagos...
Chief Ifeanyichukwuma Odii, the candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi in the upcoming governorship election has promised to prioritise the welfare of workers if elected. The PDP standard-bearer made the promise when he met recently with the workers at the party’s governorship campaign office in Abakaliki. The...
The Abia chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has formally reacted to the outcomes of the Presidential and National Assembly elections, describing them as unacceptable to the party. The party made the disclosure in a statement issued by the Vice Chairman/Acting State Publicity Secretary of the party, Chief...
Eight days to the conduct of Governorship and House of Assembly elections, the Igbo Communities in Lagos State on Saturday officially endorsed the PDP’s Governorship Candidate, Dr Abdul-Azeez Adediran and his running mate, Ms Funke Akindele. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that leaders of Ndigbo declared their...
Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta has appealed to religious leaders and Delta residents to support the gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Mr Sheriff Oborevwori in the March 11 Governorship election. Okowa made the appeal on Friday at a meeting with members of the...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Rivers has released winners of the National Assembly election conducted on Feb. 25 in Rivers. INEC announced the results in a statement issued to newsmen by the commission’s Public Affairs Officer, Mrs Geraldine Ekelemu, in Port Harcourt on Saturday. The commission announced...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, dismissed a suit seeking the removal of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate, Bello Matawalle, from the Zamfara governorship election. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgment, held that the case of the plaintiffs lacked merit. The News Agency of Nigeria...
Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai on Friday alleged that the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele introduced the naira redesign policy to help the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) win the 2023 general elections. “Emefiele was appointed Central Bank Governor by the PDP originally. So, let’s...
The governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, has blamed those he referred to as inherited Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members in the All Progressives Congress (APC) for ‘misleading’ President Muhammadu Buhari on the naira redesign policy. The Supreme Court on Friday ordered that old N200, N500, and N1,000 notes...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it plans to challenge its defeat in Benue in the Feb. 25 Presidential and National Assembly Elections. Mr Isaac Mffo, the state acting PDP chairman said this when he addressed a news conference on Friday in Makurdi. “We have mandated our legal department...
The Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) says there is no law making it mandatory for INEC to transmit electoral results electronically. Mr Dele Alake, Special Adviser on Media and Communications at the PCC made the declaration in Abuja on Friday when he spoke at...
The Court of Appeal on Friday granted leave to Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party and Mr Peter Obi of the Labour Party, to inspect documents used by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the conduct of the Feb. 25 Presidential election. The permission was sequel to...