Tag: Peoples Democratic Party

Court suspends Uche Secondus as PDP National Chairman

Aminu Imam

The leadership crisis currently rocking the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), worsened on Monday as a High Court in Rivers State has restrained Uche Secondus from parading himself as the National Chairman of the Party. The order was given by Justice O. Gbasam at the State High Court sitting in Degema local government area of the State yesterday. The judge, who gave the order, also approved the suspension of Secondus as a member of the party pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice for interlocutory injunction. The…

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2023: Nigeria needs a nationalist, not tribalist, parochial, provincial politicians – Tambuwal

Aminu Imam

Ahead of the 2023 general election, the Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum and Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, has said that the nation requires a leadership that is nationalistic and not tribalistic, a leadership that promotes national unity, not disunity. Tambuwal added that the nation needs a broad worldview and not a parochial and provincial politician. Speaking yesterday at Richard Akinnola’s birthday lecture in Lagos, Tambuwal equally said that the nation needs an incorruptible leader who understands that the best way to fight corruption is by…

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2023: “Only a Northerner can win Presidency for PDP” – Dokpesi

Aminu Imam

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),…

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PDP crisis: “I will not resign” — Secondus

Aminu Imam

…’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…

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PDP crisis: “I will not resign” — Secondus

Aminu Imam

…”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…

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Just In: Seven PDP NWC members resign

Aminu Imam

Seven members of the National Working Committee, (NWC), of the People’s Democratic Party  (PDP), have resigned citing “bad treatment” by the PDP national chairman. The party’s National Organising Secretary, Col. Austin Akobundu (rtd), confirmed this on Tuesday. Those who resigned include: the Deputy National Financial Secretary, Deputy Legal Adviser, Deputy National Auditor, Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Deputy Women Leader, and Deputy Organising Secretary and one other. They also cited financial indiscipline and poor leadership as reasons for their resignation. They promised to remain loyal to the PDP but withdrew their…

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‘APC founded on lies, blackmail, can’t go beyond 2023’ – Lamido

Aminu Imam

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…

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2023: ‘Nigeria not going back to ‘Egypt’ — APC knocks PDP, Atiku

Aminu Imam

…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…

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S/Court ruling: APC now invalid, carries burden of “let buyer beware”, says PDP

Aminu Imam

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…

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2023: PDP Govs. Forum urges NASS to entrench electronic transmission of results 

Aminu Imam

…Accuses Buhari, APC for converting Aso Villa to new APC HQ Governors elected on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party, otherwise known as PDP Governors’ Forum, (PDP-GF), yesterday called on the federal lawmakers to entrench electronic transmission of results for free, fair and credible elections in the country. The Chairman of PDP-GF and Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, disclosed this in a communique issued at the end of the 11th meeting of the Forum, which was held in Bauchi. The Forum requested the Independent National Electoral Commission,…

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