The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has constituted an appeal panel on its just concluded primary for Anambra governorship election. The gubernatorial appeal panel, according to a statement by PDP National Organising Secretary, Col. Austin Akobundu (rtd), in Abuja on Sunday, is chaired by the party National Chairman, Mr Uche Secondus. Akobundu said that the Panel would consider appeals arising from the conduct of the Anambra State gubernatorial primary election. He said that the PDP National Working Committee also approved the nomination of Sen. Umaru Tsauri as Member/Secretary of the panel.…
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Zamfara: Buhari’s aide hints at Governor Matawalle’s defection to APC
The Personal Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on New Media, Bashir Ahmad, has suggested that there is a possibility for the defection of the Zamfara State governor, Bello Matawalle, from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to the All Progressives Congress, (APC). This was made known by the presidential aide, Ahmad in a Facebook post yesterday, which stated: “So, Zamfara is back home! Welcome Matawalle”. As at the time of this reportage, Matawalle has not confirmed his rumoured defection to APC, despite speculation of the defection from different quarters and the…
Read MorePDP declares party activities in Niger illegal
The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), says it did not authorise the inauguration of local government area chairmen in its Niger State chapter. In an issued statement, the party’s National Vice-Chairman, North-Central, Theophilus Dakas Shan, warned the general public to be wary of such individuals who carried out the illegal inauguration. The statement condemned the action and described the purported inauguration as an abuse of privilege which would not be condoned. Shan said the move came to the party as a shock that some leaders, conducted the said illegal inauguration at…
Read More“Stop threatening Nigerians with war” – PDP warns Buhari
…Says he can’t Stop Nigerians from amending Constitution The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), has warned President Muhammadu Buhari against pushing the nation to the precipices by his arrogant and dictatorial remarks as well as inflammatory referencing to war, particularly in his apparent aversion towards the constitutionally guaranteed rights of Nigerians. The main opposition Party said its caution is in response to an incendiary comment credited to President Buhari, wherein he was reported to have observed the demand by Nigerians for Constitutional restructuring as contiguous with warfare, while sentencing the proponents…
Read More‘Probe APC if you are unbiased’, PDP tells EFCC
The Peoples Democratic Party Governors Forum (PDP-GF) has expressed his dissatisfaction over the action of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), to investigate the Party. Recall that a member of the opposition party, Kassim Afegbua, in April petitioned the EFCC and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) over the alleged misappropriation of the Party’s funds. According to the petition, Afegbua asked that the PDP leadership account for N10 billion allegedly realised from the sale of forms in the 2019 general election.This made the anti-graft agency…
Read MoreYou’ve mismanaged your opportunities to initiate restructuring – PGF DG tells PDP
By Godwin Amunde The Director General of the Progressive Governors Forum, (PGF) – an umbrella body of Nigerian governors elected on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC) – Dr. Salihu Lukman have challenged the governors of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to engage the leadership of the National Assembly to speed up the processes of constitutional amendment instead of playing politics on a matter that is beyond media campaign. Dr. Lukman made this known in a statement which was made available to newsmen on Tuesday in…
Read MoreDevolution of power: PDP govs. seek constitutional amendment
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors, under the aegis of the PDP Governors’ Forum, have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately send an Executive Bill to the National Assembly to amend the Nigerian Constitution to devolve more powers to the states with respect to security arrangements culminating in some form of State policing and the general security architecture. Arising from a closed-door meeting held at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, yesterday, the PDP governors, in a communique issued at the end of…
Read More‘Nigerians are starving, dying’, PDP tells Buhari, APC
The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), has called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led federal government to end what the party referred to as their insensitivity and take urgent steps to address the worsened food insecurity and the attendant hunger and starvation across the nation. The PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, made this assertion in a statement issued yesterday. The Party lamented that under Buhari, over 82.9 million Nigerians can no longer afford their daily meals due to the failure of the administration to take practical…
Read MoreBuhari’s ‘nepotism’ fuelling agitations for secession – PDP
Nigeria’s main opposition party, the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP), has blamed the growing agitation for secession in different parts of the country on what it called a government of exclusion practiced by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC). The Party said “the APC government’s perfunctory management of Nigeria’s diversity, has heightened feelings that the government has an ethnic agenda, as every action of this administration goes to confirm the fears of the victims and legitimises the agitations of the separatist groups”. The National Chairman of the Party, Prince…
Read MoreInsecurity: ‘2023 Elections not realistic if challenges are not addressed’ – PDP Chairman
National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, has stated that preparations for the 2023 general election will amount to nothing if the country’s security challenges are not addressed. The PDP chairman gave the advice at the emergency meeting of the party’s national executive committee (NEC) on Thursday, in Abuja, and advised President Muhammadu Buhari to convene a national dialogue to discuss the rising insecurity in the country. The opposition party chairman said the meeting was called to enable the party to add its voice to the worrisome situation with a…
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