Atiku and Soludo The former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Charles Chukwuma Soludo, paid a courtesy visit to ex-Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, in his Abuja home barely 24 hours after the latter formed a parallel Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, along with seven PDP governors. The Anambra gubernatorial hopeful led a group of…
The National Chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, Bamanga Tukur, has submitted that his faction of the ruling PDP “does not recognise any parallel party” formed by former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, on Saturday, in Abuja, after the ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s second-in-command, along with some others, walked out of the party’s convention held yesterday…
The incumbent Minister of State for Education, Hon Nyesom Wike may have bitten more than he could chew with his current face off with the Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi. The ugly development has taken front pages of newspapers on many occasions and has portrayed the state in bad light amongst watchers of events. While…
Olisa Metuh The Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, has elected some of its members into the National Working Committee position of the party. At a special convention held on Saturday in Abuja, former party spokesman, Olisa Metuh, was re-elected into the same position after the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declared that the election that brought…
The new faction of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, has explained why it left from the main party. This was contained in a statement released in Abuja on Saturday shortly after the group walked out of the National Convention of the PDP on Saturday afternoon and formed the splinter group. The group said, “we address…
Reports reaching Aproko247 indicate that the lingering crises rocking the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, has now taken another dimension as the party has been factionalized by some of its top members. At a press conference held in Abuja on Saturday, a new faction of the party was announced and its new leaders unveiled to…
Respected traditional ruler and the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, Thursday called on the former president, Olusegun Obasanjo not to retire from politics, saying that the country still needs him. Abubaka who doubles as president-general, Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, stated this when Obasanjo paid him a courtesy visit at…