Tag: Peoples Democratic Party

PDP: Odds favour Atiku; South-East may lose out

Aminu Imam

Nigerias former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, barring new developments, could be on his way to securing the presidential ticket of the countrys main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party Party, (PDP), ahead of its presidential primary billed to hold from May 29 to May 30. It was learnt that the party, having failed in its quest to zone the ticket to the South, even as an attempt by northern aspirants to achieve a consensus from amongst them collapsed, decided to throw the contest open and have delegates from the 36…

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Ohanaeze Ndigbo slams PDP, rejects Atiku Abubakar

Aminu Imam

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo has voiced its dissatisfaction with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over its handling of the zoning of the partys presidential ticket. The group warned that any attempt to manipulate the primaries in favor of Atiku will spell doom for the PDP. The group, which made its stand known via its Secretary-General, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, noted that the National Working Committee (NWC) of PDP has milked the Igbos of votes for twenty years and that it is time for Nyesom Wike or Peter Obi, who are from the South-East…

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Atiku, Tambuwal, Lamido reject Saraki, Mohammed as Northern PDPs Consensus Presidential Candidates

Aminu Imam

PDP summons NEC meeting Wednesday Former vice-president Atiku Abubakar; Sokoto State Governor, Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal; former Governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido; and Mohammed Hayatu-Deen, have rejected the emergence of a former Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, and Bauchi State Governor, Senator Bala Mohammed as the consensus presidential candidates for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the North. Atiku, Tambuwal, Lamido, and Hayatu-Deen, who are all PDP presidential aspirants, have also denounced the report of Prof. Ango Abdullahi, which endorsed Saraki and Mohammed as the Norths consensus presidential candidates…

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PDP Presidential Ticket: Crisis hits Northern aspirants as IBBs brokered consensus candidacy collapses

Aminu Imam

”We were not part of it” – Atiku, Tambuwal Former vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, and Sokoto State governor, Aminu Tambuwal, have denied being part of the process leading to the selection of any Northern consensus candidate. In separate statements issued by their media teams in Abuja, the two leading aspirants for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) 2023 Presidential ticket, stated that they were never a party to the Northern consensus arrangement. The ‘Technical Committee for the actualisation of Atiku Abubakars Presidency in 2023‘, in the statement, stated that the former vice-president…

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2023 Presidential Aspirants: Finally, PDP Forum agree on consensus arrangement

Aminu Imam

Some presidential aspirants on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), have finally yielded to the call for consensus arrangement ahead of the partys presidential primary election, slated for May 28th and 29th. The aspirants who accepted the consensus arrangement said they did so in order to position the party for victory in the 2023 general election. Former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, who spoke on behalf of other aspirants while briefing newsmen on the outcome of their visit to Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, of Abia State, in his country home…

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2023: War in PDP as Southern Govs dare Atiku, Saraki, Tambuwal over zoning

Aminu Imam

Ahead of its presidential primary election fixed for May 28, a fresh crisis looms for the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) as governors from the South have insisted that the presidential ticket for the 2023 election must not be an open contest. This position has pitched them against two of their northern colleagues, in the persons of Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, Bala Mohammed, governors of Sokoto and Bauchi States; former vice-president, Atiku Abubakar; Ex-Senate President, Bukola Saraki and banker-turned politician, Muhammed Hayatu-Deen, all of whom have since joined the presidential race on…

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PDP throws open 2023 presidential ticket

Aminu Imam

As its mandate ended yesterday, the 37-person zoning committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), has flung open its presidential ticket to all aspirants. It was gathered that the decision came after a meeting yesterday at the Benue State Governors Lodge, Asokoro, Abuja. According to a source who pleaded anonymity, the committee threw open the ticket due to exigency of time saying zoning, as in our party constitution, is affirmed. Recall that the Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed-led committee which reviewed the PDP performance during the 2019 general election had…

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Buharis headship of Petroleum Ministry reason for revenue leakages – PDP Govs.

Aminu Imam

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors Forum has alleged that President Muhammadu Buharis headship of the Ministry of Petroleum Resources was responsible for revenue leakages in the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, (NNPC). Consequently, the PDP governors have called for the immediate separation of the office of the president from that of the minister of petroleum resources. The Forum, in a communiqu read by its Chairman, Governor Aminu Tambuwal, of Sokoto State, after its meeting in Aba, Abia State, last Wednesday, also called for an audit of daily consumption of…

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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, Im 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 Nigerias 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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