The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared PDP candidates – Mr Benson Agadaga, Sen. Seriake Dickson and Mr Benson Kombowei, the winners of Saturday’s senatorial election in Bayelsa. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Dickson is a serving lawmaker, Agadaga is a former Chief of Staff...
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By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – Senator Lawal Yahaya Gumau, representing Bauchi South Senatorial District under the New Nigerian People’s Party, has dumped the party and joined the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. Gumau, a former Member of the House of Representatives representing Toro Federal Constituency, contested...
The Cross River chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) failed in its bid to retain two Senate and six House of Representatives seats in the recently concluded National Assembly (NASS) elections. The opposition party in the state lost the Cross River Central and Cross River South to the...
The All Progressive Congress (APC) says it plans to challenge its defeat in Cross River North Senatorial and House of Representatives election. Mr Alphonsus Eba, the state APC Chairman said this when he addressed a news conference on Thursday in Calabar. Eba who alleged that the election was marred...
Senator Gershom Bassey while reacting to the outcome of the just concluded Presidential and National Assembly elections in an interview with PATRICK ABANG spoke on the chances of the opposition People’s Democratic Party PDP in Cross River State. Except: What is your reaction on the poor performance of PDP...
The President-Elect, Bola Tinubu has set up committees to meet aggrieved presidential candidates to start the “healing process”. Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State and a member of the committees disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday by his Chief Press Secretary, Richard Olatunde. He said a Committee of...
Dr Kayode Ajulo, a constitutional lawyer, has advised the Labour Party (LP) not to partner the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in seeking legal redress in the just-concluded presidential election. Ajulo said this on Thursday in Abuja during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). The LP and...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Ahead of the March 11 governorship election, the Sokoto State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP), Hon Bello Aliyu Goronyo has appealed to supporters of the party to ensure that they come out en mass to protect their votes against manipulations. Goronyo,...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kebbi on Thursday rejected the Kebbi Central senatorial district result on the Feb. 25 election, insisting that it would institute a legal action to retrieve the mandate. INEC on Tuesday declared Sen. Adamu Aliero of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner...
The New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) has joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party to call for the cancellation of the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections. The party made this call in a press briefing on Friday, saying that a new election should be...
The flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu is in the lead in Nigeria’s keenly contested presidential election with official results coming in from 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. According to results presented by state collation officers for the presidential election (SCOPs)...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate, Sen. Bola Tinubu, has emerged winner of Saturday’s election in Niger by scoring 375,183 votes from the 778,668 valid votes cast in the state. The State Collation Officer for Presidential Election (SCOPE) , Prof. Clement Alawa, the Deputy Vice Chancellor (DVC) Academic,...
The Vice Presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa, and Labour Party (LP), Dr Datti Baba-Ahmed, have called for the cancellation of Saturday’s presidential election. Baba-Ahmed and Okowa, at a joint press conference on Tuesday in Abuja, called on Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to...
The Kogi People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday reiterated its stand of total rejection of results of Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections in the state. Mr Sam Uhuotu, the state PDP Chairman, made the declaration in a statement issued to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lokoja....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu has won the presidential election in Borno State by scoring a total of 252, 282 votes. The Borno State INEC Collation- Returning Officer of 2023 Presidential and National Assembly Election, Professor Jude Tsammani...
Youths and women in Katsina State have pledged to deliver two million votes to the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, in the presidential poll billed to hold on Feb 25. Malam Ahmed Adamu, Special Assistant to the Presidential Candidate on Youth and Strategy,...
Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State has declared that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) remains the only answer to the Nigeria’s challenges. Tambuwal, who made the declaration at the PDP’s campaign rally in Goronyo Local Government Area of Sokoto on Saturday, said the party’s Presidential Candidate Atiku Abubakar, was...
Enugu-East Senator, Dr Chimaroke Nnamani says the National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP has no powers to suspend or expel him from the party. Nnamani explained in a statement in Abuja on Friday that NWC did not follow due process and strict compliance with the provisions of the...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has approved the expulsion of former Governor of Enugu State, Sen. Chimaroke Nnamani, and six others from the party. The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, disclosed this in a statement issued in...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi on Friday, received hundreds of defectors from the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state. The Party’s Gubernatorial candidate, Dr IfeanyiChukwuma Odii, who welcomed the decampees in Abakaliki, said the PDP is ready to win in the forthcoming general elections. “PDP as...