Tag: PDP

2023 Presidency: “Forget zoning, give ticket to who can win” – Tambuwal tells PDP

Aminu Imam

Sokoto State governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has advocated that the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), should give its presidential ticket to a candidate that can win an election, not minding what part of the country the candidate comes from. According to Tambuwal, “I’m appealing to my party that we should be talking about how to win the election; not just not zoning of where the President is coming from”. He added that “The President can come from wherever, provided he has the capacity and competence to fix Nigeria of the moment.…

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2023: Saraki, Sokoto, Bauchi Govs. mull consensus PDP presidential candidate

Aminu Imam

…To consult Atiku Bauchi State governor, Bala Muhammad, yesterday, hosted his Sokoto State counterpart, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, and a former Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, to a consensus-building initiative among 2023 presidential aspirants of northern extraction, under the aegis of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP). The trio, all seeking the nomination of the PDP to run for the seat of Nigeria’s President, met for about two and a half hours at the Government House, Bauchi. At the end of the meeting, they posited that it was their considered resolution that…

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2023: ‘Kwankwaso, Hunkuyi other allies will join us soon’, NNPP confirms

Aminu Imam

…Plans party convention One of Nigeria’s political parties, the New Nigeria Peoples Party, (NNPP), has said that they are in advance talk with the former Governor of Kano State, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, for a possible defection to the party ahead of the 2023 general election. According to the party, in a matter of days, the former governor and allies would join the party alongside their political structures. Recall that there have been speculations that Kwankwaso would be joining another party to vie for the presidency after he reportedly criticised the…

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2023: Buhari-led APC govt averse to free, fair, transparent, credible elections – PDP

Aminu Imam

Barely a year to the 2023 election, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday, said that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) government is averse to free, fair, transparent and credible elections in the country. The party raised the alarm that there is a dangerous design by the Buhari administration and the APC to trigger a serious political crisis that can derail the electoral system, truncate democracy, subvert the corporate existence and turn the nation into another ‘axis of concern’ to the world. Addressing a world press conference in…

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PDP warns lawmakers against planned move to impeach Zamfara Deputy Governor

Aminu Imam

The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), has warned against the move by the Zamfara State House of Assembly to impeach the deputy governor of the state, Mahdi Gusau. In an issued statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, yesterday, it described the move as illegal and undemocratic. The PDP also accused the state governor, Bello Matawalle, of manipulating the lawmakers into making such a move, thereby attempting to stoke and induce violence in the State. “This illegal process of impeachment, despite a subsisting order of the Federal High Court, Abuja,…

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Senate Deputy Minority Leader dumps party, defects to APC

Aminu Imam

…Meets Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, welcomed the Senate Deputy Minority Leader, Emmanuel Bwacha, into the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC). Senator Bwacha, representing Taraba-South, defected from the main opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP). The APC National Caretaker Committee, Yobe State governor, Mai Mala Buni, presented him to President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House, Abuja. Buhari, in the presence of his Chief of Staff, Prof Ibrahim Gambari, welcomed the ranking Senator into the party.

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Hanifa’s Death: “Don’t extort school proprietors”, PDP cautions Ganduje

Aminu Imam

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kano State has called on Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje not to use Hanifa’s murder as an avenue to extort school proprietors in the State. The State’s PDP Chairman, Shehu Wada Sagagi, in a statement, said despite the need to reform the private education sector, the state government must follow the due process under the law establishing the Kano Private School Board, which regulates the activities of all non-public schools in the State. Recall that the State government had revoked the licence of all private schools…

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2023: Obasanjo turns down PDP’s request to return to party

Aminu Imam

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has declared that he would never return to the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), saying he has retired from partisan politics. The ex-president, who renounced his membership of the party in 2015, stated this when he received the PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu; and other stakeholders who visited him on Saturday in Abeokuta, Ogun State. According to sources, the visit was targeted at returning the former president to the opposition party ahead of the 2023 general elections. But, Obasanjo, while addressing the stakeholders, said he had vowed…

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PDP schedules North-West Zonal Congress for February, 12

Aminu Imam

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday, scheduled its outstanding North-West Zonal Congress for the purpose of electing a new Working Committee and National Ex-Officios for Saturday, February 12, 2022. The National Organising Secretary of the party, Hon. Umaru M. Bature, stated this in an issued statement yesterday. “This is part of the resolution of the PDP National Working Committee, (NWC), at its meeting on Wednesday, January 12, 2022”, the statement noted. According to him, the North-West Zonal Congress is slated to hold at the Zonal Headquarters of the party in…

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2023: Why PDP must not zone Nigeria’s presidency to the South – Kwankwaso

Aminu Imam

A former governor of Kano State, Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, has argued against the call for zoning the 2023 presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), to the southern part of the country. Sen. Kwankwaso made his position known in an interview on a television programme on Sunday night, where he also spoke about several political concerns ahead of the 2023 general elections. In his argument, the two-term governor of Kano State condemned the insistence of the Southern Governors Forum in July 2021 that the next president of the country…

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