Tag: PDP CRISIS

PDP Crisis: Moves to sack Ayu-led NWC gather steam

Aminu Imam

The days of the Dr. Iyorchia Ayu-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) may be numbered as moves to sack the embattled chairman just got some legal reinforcement in court. Whilst the party’s NWC and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, are enmeshed in the political turmoil generated by the insistence of the G-5 governors inspired by Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, it appears the party’s leadership may have taken for granted a seemingly innocuous and existing legal action seeking to sack the entire NWC. This…

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PDP Crisis: Governor Wike’s camp wants Chairman Iyorchia Ayu removed

Aminu Imam

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Iyorchia Ayu, has found himself at the centre of the face-off between the presidential candidate of the party, Atiku Abubakar, and Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, which is tearing the main opposition party apart, ahead of the 2023 general elections. The crisis worsened on Wednesday, when two associates of Wike, Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, and a former Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose, publicly expressed their reluctance to back their party’s presidential candidate for the general election. While Ortom said he…

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PDP Crisis: BoT member, Joy Emordi defects to APC

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

A member of Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Joy Emordi, on Wednesday defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Alhaji Mamman Mohammed, Director-General, Press and Media of APC, announced this in a statement issued in Abuja. The statement said the Chairman, APC Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) and Governor of Yobe, Mai Mala Buni, received Emordi at a brief ceremony. “Buni expressed delight with the decision taken by the board member to contribute to the unity of the country. “There is need…

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