The National Working Committee, NWC, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has postponed the state congress in Edo State. The party, in a press statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday, announced this development, adding that a new date for the exercise would be announced later. The NWC of the party, which met to look into…
The Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Makurdi, Benue State capital, has upheld the victory of former Senate President, David Mark, in the senatorial district poll held in March 2015. The Tribunal struck out a petition filed by Comrade Daniel Onjeh of the All Progressives Congress, APC, challenging the victory of Mark. Mark contested the election…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State has warned the Acting National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, to leave former Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi, alone or it would be forced to expose him. Rivers APC made the warning in a statement signed on Sunday in Port Harcourt by the…
….Urges urgent probe of murders, intimidation of witnesses The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State has cried out to President Muhammadu Buhari, appealing to him to urgently institute a probe into murders in the State associated with the 2015 polls as well as the alleged intimidation of the party’s witnesses at the State Governorship…
Former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Adamu Mu’azu and some prominent Nigerians had a close shave with death in the Thursday’s stampede in Saudi Arabia, which left over 700 pilgrims dead. According to The Nation, former Special Adviser on National Assembly, Kashim Imam and former National Chairman of the defunct CPC, Senator…
According to reports reaching our news room, a former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Bayelsa State, Col Sam Inokoba, has passed on. Inokoba reportedly died on Wednesday afternoon in Lagos. The deceased only defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, about two weeks ago and was said to have slumped during a…
By Nwaorgu Faustinus An interest group has lashed out at the Deputy of Chief of Staff to Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, Mrs Ebizi Brown, over her recent comments on prominent members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state who defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, last week. In a statement…
The National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh, has been suspended by the Anambra State chapter of the party. Metuh was asked to stay away from the party’s activities over his alleged involvement in a fraud related issue. A statement signed by the Publicity Secretary Kenneth Arinze and Victor Osy Ezenwa,…
The use of card readers for the forthcoming general elections in Nigeria by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, will be blocked, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has maintained. Speaking with newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja, spokesman of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, Femi Fani-Kayode, stressed that the party was rejecting the card readers…
Controversial former president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, has finally quit the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The two-time ruler of the country also disclosed that he is no longer interested in the party and would stay away from the party’s politics. It was disclosed to Aproko247 that Obasanjo allegedly tore his PDP membership card. The…