The All Progressive Congres APC has been declared winner of the Lere House of Representatives Federal Constituency by-election in Kaduna State. APC beats the People’s Democratic Party PDP by polling 33, 958 votes. Declaring the results, the retuning officer, Professor Wada Ademu of University of Jos said the PDP came second with 16, 271 votes while the YPP came distance third by polling 294 votes. By these results, Engineer Ahmed Manir of the APC is returned the winner of the Lere House of Representatives Federal Constituency of Kaduna State. Engineer…
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2023: “Only a Northerner can win Presidency for PDP” – Dokpesi
Business mogul and former national chairmanship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Raymond Dokpesi,on Thursday said there is no way his Party can win the 2023 presidential election if it presents a candidate from the southern part of the country as its flagbearer. Speaking in Abuja on the controversy over the zoning of the presidential ticket between the northern and southern part of the country, Dokpesi said the PDP must get its act right if it is serious about wresting power from the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC),…
Read MorePDP crisis: “I will not resign” — Secondus
…’Only National Convention can remove him’ – Senator Seriake Dickson The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, says he will not resign his position. Secondus said this in a statement issued by his Media Adviser, Ike Abonyi, in Abuja yesterday. The National Chairman also said that so far nothing warranted his resignation from the party position. His words: “Those tiny minority calling for my resignation should come clean and tell party members across the country my offense why I should resign”. Secondus said that he…
Read MorePDP crisis: “I will not resign” — Secondus
…”Only National Convention can remove him” – Senator Seriake Dickson The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, says he will not resign his position. Secondus said this in a statement issued by his Media Adviser, Ike Abonyi, in Abuja on Monday. The national chairman also said that so far nothing warranted his resignation from the party position. He said: “Those tiny minority calling for my resignation should come clean and tell party members across the country my offense why I should resign.” Secondus said that…
Read MoreDon’t vote for PDP, APC again”, ex-INEC boss, Jega warns Nigerians
…Says they have bad antecedents For their alleged failure to bring the desired growth and development in Nigeria within the past 20 years, a university don and former Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission of Nigeria (INEC), Professor Attahiru Muhammad Jega, has urged Nigerians not to vote for the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) henceforth. The former INEC boss alleged that the two major political parties were like Siamese twin and that it was high time Nigerians look for a credible alternative. Speaking during…
Read More‘APC founded on lies, blackmail, can’t go beyond 2023’ – Lamido
A former governor of Jigawa State and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Sule Lamido, has questioned the foundation of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), saying the party will not live beyond 2023. He said the APC would collapse because it was built on hatred for the PDP, adding that it had failed to fulfill its promises and its leaders exposed as liars. The former minister of foreign affairs further said the PDP would regain power in 2023 because Nigerians were tired of the ruling party. In a published…
Read More2023: ‘Nigeria not going back to ‘Egypt’ — APC knocks PDP, Atiku
…Says we’re not in the same class The ruling All Progressives Congress APC has knocked the Peoples Democratic Party PDP and its presidential candidate in the 2019 general election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar for thinking that they can come back to power, saying Nigerians are not ready to go back to Egypt. The former Vice President had on Wednesday met with the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, in Port Harcourt, the state capital. After the meeting, Atiku said Nigerians are waiting eagerly for his Peoples Democratic Party to take over power…
Read MoreS/Court ruling: APC now invalid, carries burden of “let buyer beware”, says PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), has alerted Nigerians and the international community that the All Progressives Congress, (APC), has become technically invalidated and now lacked the statutory structure to operate as a political party in the country. This is coming against the background of the pronouncement of the Supreme Court that clearly pointed to the nullity of APC’s subsistence and activities as a political party, for having a sitting governor, Mai Mala Buni, of Yobe State, as its Chairman, in total violation of section 183 of the 1999 Constitution (as…
Read MoreNPA probe: PDP demands prosecution of sacked DG, Hadiza Bala-Usman
The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), has demanded the immediate prosecution of indicted and now sacked Managing Director of the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman, over exposed looting of over N165 billion in the agency. The party insisted that President Muhammadu Buhari should not just “ease out” Bala Usman, but must go ahead to prosecute her over the alleged looting including revelations from the office of the Auditor General, which also unearthed the alleged stealing of unremitted deductions to Federal Inland Revenue Service, (FIRS), amounting to over N3bn, over…
Read More‘APC consensus candidate arrangement is a plot to impose Jonathan on the party’ – Arewa group cry out
A group, under the auspices of ‘Arewa 2023 Agenda for Peaceful Transition’, has said that the National Secretary, APC Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), Senator John Akpanudoehede, has vindicated the group’s revelation on APC’s plan to give its next presidential ticket to former President Goodluck Jonathan. “Some Nigerians were initially doubting us, on the grand plot to foist former President on the APC in 2023”, the group explained in a statement by its National Chairman – Usaini Ibrahim on Wednesday, in Kaduna. It would be recalled that Senator…
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