Tag: PDP

2023 Ogun PDP Guber Ticket: Supreme Court dismisses Failed Alpha Merchant Bank MD, Jimi Lawal’s appeal

Aminu Imam

The Supreme Court yesterday dismissed four appeals that emanated from the Ogun State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship legal battle. The appeals, instituted by one of the governorship aspirants, and failed Alpha Merchant Bank Managing Director, Jimi Lawal, and some ward delegates were dismissed on the grounds that the Appellants have no cause of action. Leading a panel of five Justices, Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun dismissed the appeals following their withdrawals by the respective lawyers. In one of the appeals, filed by Tayo Olabode against the PDP governorship candidate in Ogun…

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APC Cautions Akinjide on campaign of calumny against Tinubu

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir
APC Presidential Candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu

The All Progressives Congress APC in Oyo State has cautioned Chief Jumoke Akinjide, a former Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), to stop launching campaign of calumny against its presidential candidate, Bola ahmed Tinubu. This is contained in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Olawale Sadare, on Friday in Ibadan. Akinjide, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State, was alleged to have made Tinubu a subject of verbal attacks and blackmail. Akinjide was alleged to have blackmailed Tinubu while appearing on some local…

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2023: “You’ll get rewards, appointments, contracts based on your election result” – Atiku to PDP members

Aminu Imam

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has told the party members conditions to get rewards appointments and contracts if elected as the next president. Atiku, who disclosed this yesterday in Abeokuta, Ogun State, during a town hall meeting with the stakeholders, said all party members must show the results of their polling units to benefit from the government. Atiku insisted that if party members and leaders deliver at their polling units, it would be easy for the PDP to win the elections. In attendance were, the…

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‘More Nigerians are poorer, miserable than they were before APC took over in 2015’ – Atiku

Aminu Imam

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has said many Nigerians have become poorer and more miserable than they were before President Muhammadu Buhari and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) took over in May 2015. Atiku, who said this at the Nigeria Economic Summit Group Presidential Dialogue on the Economy, at the Summit House, Ikoyi, Lagos, enjoined Nigerians to join him in kicking the party out in the 2023 general elections. He said between 2015 and 2020, the number of Nigerians who are gainfully employed dropped…

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2023: “Trust my husband with Nigeria; he means well” – Atiku’s wife, Titilayo

Aminu Imam

Wife of the Presidential candidate of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Titilayo Atiku Abubakar, has urged Nigerians to entrust Nigeria into the hands of her husband as the next President of the country.  She further urged the Nigerian electorate not to doubt the capacity of her husband to reposition the country positively if elected as President having tried as the Vice-President to the then President, Olusegun Obasanjo for 8 years. Abubakar was addressing women in Bauchi on Saturday, at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Stadium during the distribution of…

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Insecurity: “We can’t leave our house to armed robbers” – Wike attacks Atiku

Aminu Imam

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has said he is not the leader of the aggrieved governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), popularly known as G5. Speaking in a recent interview on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Wike named the Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom as leader of the G5. “We can’t leave our house to armed robbers, we can’t do that. No way. And we won’t leave this party”, he said. The PDP has been enmeshed in crisis after the party’s national convention in May 2022 where former Vice-President…

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Appeal Court upholds Zamfara PDP Governorship primary election

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The Court of Appeal Sokoto division on Friday upheld the primary election which produced Dr Dauda Lawal-Dare as candidate of the PDP for the March 11, governorship election in Zamfara. The first PDP Governorship Primary election was held on May 25, 2022. The primary was challenged at Federal High Court in Gusau. The court ordered for fresh primary election which the re-run was conducted on Sept. 23, 2022 and also quashed by the same court for irregularities. Not satisfied, the Appellants, Lawal-Dare, Adamu Maina-Waziri, the chairman primary election committee and retired…

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2023: ‘Atiku will reopen Nigeria’s borders, address insecurity’ – Tambuwal

Aminu Imam

Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, would reopen the nation’s borders if elected at the 2023 general elections. Tambuwal, who is the Director-General of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council made the assertion at the PDP campaign rally on Saturday, in Illela local government area of the State. According to him, the PDP presidential candidate has better plans for the country He said: “These include re-opening the nation’s borders, addressing challenges of insecurity and the provision of basic necessities of…

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2023 PDP Feud: Former NSA Gen. Gusau wades in, as G-5 again meets in London 

Aminu Imam

The Nyesom Wike-led group of State governors, under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has arrived in London, United Kingdom, in continuation of their meeting to fashion a strategy ahead of the 2023 presidential election. The team that left for the trip on Boxing Day included Governors Sam Ortom, (Benue); Seyi Makinde, (Oyo); Ifeanyi Uguanyi, (Enugu), and Okezie Ikpeazu, (Abia). They have remained consistent in their call for the removal of the National Chairman of the party, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, to pave the way for the emergence of…

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‘Buhari’s border closure worsens economic woes’ – Atiku Campaign group replies Minister

Aminu Imam

The Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organisation yesterday told the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, that the closure of the nation’s land borders as directed by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 worsened the country’s economic situation and cost Nigeria its place as the leading power in West Africa. This assertion is contained in a statement issued by its Director, Public Affairs, Senator Dino, Melaye, which described the action as a scam. Recall that Mohammed had slammed the presidential candidate of the main opposition party, Atiku Abubakar, over his plan to…

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