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…
Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has embarked on a project aimed at alleviating poverty among youths of the state. The party carried out this programme under the Ward2Ward Initiative. The project tagged ‘Jonathan Ogun State Youth Empowerment Program’ is expected to have at least 3,000 beneficiaries to begin with. Several youths…
The Rivers State chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, has called on relevant security agencies in Nigeria to investigate the introduction of violence into the politics of Rivers State by alleged prominent Ogboni member and governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State, Nyesom Ezebunwo Wike. The party in a statement signed…
Report reaching us has it that some unknown gunmen raided the residence of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, John Oyegun, in the early hours of Monday. The hoodlums, we learnt, went straight to the bedroom of Oyegun, but met his wife. Our correspondent gathered that the opposition party boss was not…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has commiserated with President Goodluck Jonathan, who lost his younger sister, Mrs Nancy Jonathan-Olei, to death on Sunday in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. Jonathan’s sister died on Sunday at a hospital in Bayelsa after a brief illness. The death of the President’s sibling came hours after he gave out his daughter…
A group, New Foundation of National Understanding, NFNM, has called upon President Goodluck Jonathan to shift the 2015 Presidential elections and prepare for war against terrorism in the country. The group alleged that there is a plot by some disgruntled politician and religious extremists of northern extraction to extend the reign of terror of Boko…
No fewer than 4000 members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Sokoto State left the party to join the All Progressives Congress, APC. The defecting members were received in Isa local government area of the state on Sunday by the state governor, Aliyu Wamakko, who was represented by the Commissioner for Agriculture, Arzika Tureta.…
Electioneering in Nigeria is one that is filled with intrigues. Parties try to discredit one another. Propaganda mode is fully activated and the general public and the electorates are fed with the wrong information all in the name of canvassing votes for their respective candidates at the polls. But the campaign organisation of the presidential…
The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has predicted that immediate past Minister of State for Education, Nyesom Wike, is unlikely to get up to 10 percent of the votes to be cast during the 2015 governorship election in the state, not minding the pledges and support by Dame Patience Jonathan, Nigeria’s…
**Picks Labour Party’s Guber Ticket Following the decision of the leaders of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, to give their support to former Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike for the party’s slot for the 2015 governorship election in Rivers State, Tonye Princewill has decided to seek his ambition with the Labour Party. Princewill, in a…