An Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide (OYC), has restated its support for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Enugu State, Mr Peter Mbah. The National President of the OYC, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, said Mbah was the most competent among all the candidates standing for...
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The Muhammadu Buhari/Osinbajo Dynamic Support Group has urged the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to exercise restraint in its desperation to put a gag on INEC, ahead of Saturday’s governorship and States Houses of Assembly Elections, Alhaji Usman Ibrahim, the National Coordinator of the group said this at a news...
A lawmaker in Ondo State, Mr Sunday Olajide, has advised former Vice President Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and his Labour Party counterpart, Mr Peter Obi, to accept their defeat in the Feb. 25 Presidential election. Olajide, representing Akure South Constituency 2 in the Ondo State...
President-elect Sen. Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday approached the Court of Appeal seeking leave to obtain the election materials for his defence. Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu had declared Tinubu winner of the Feb. 25 presidential election after securing majority of votes cast...
The All Progressive Congress (APC) in Katsina State has received seven top members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and more than 10,000 of their supporters in Katsina on Tuesday. Most of the defectors are close associates of the former governor of the state, Alhaji Ibrahim Shema. Director-General of...
Ebonyi chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday in Abakaliki urged youths to steer clear of violence at the March 11 governorship and House of Assembly polls. Mr Kelechukwu Igwe, Director of Youth Mobilisation, PDP Campaign Council in Ebonyi gave the advice at a news conference. He...
The world over, politicians try to win elections by fair and foul means. That tendency is the reason institutions and laws exist and are operated by men of honour and integrity, who are sticklers to rules and unyielding to pressures from partisan interests. The February 2023 Presidential election in...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, threatened to strike out a suit filed by Mr Festus Keyamo, spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), against former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar. Justice James Omotosho, who gave the warning, said if Keyamo was not ready to diligently...
The Appeal court will on Wednesday deliver ruling in the application by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) seeking leave to configure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) for the governorship election. INEC in its motion dated March 4, asked the appellate court to vary the ex parte order...
The INEC and Police in Kebbi State have dismissed alleged plans between them to connive with the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state to rig the forthcoming gubernatorial election in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the PDP gubernatorial candidate in the state,...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday in Abuja, assembled a team of highly qualified and experienced lawyers to represent it at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal. According to a statement by Ahmad El-Marzuq, APC, National Legal Adviser, the team comprised legal luminaries with vast experience in election petition...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Campaign Council of Jafaru Leko, the Member-elect for Bogoro/Dass/Tafawa Balewa Federal Constituency, in Bauchi State, has denied sponsoring thugs to attack and injure Peoples Democratic Party supporters at the Constituency’s Collation Center in Bununu town. NATIONAL ACCORD had reported that the PDP candidate...
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...
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...