The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday, said it rejected in its entirety, the March 18, 2020 judgment by the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, which ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to issue Certificate of Returns to Sen. Ifeanyi Araraume within 72 hours. This was contained in a statement issued by Kola Ologbondiyan, National Publicity Secretary. The statement reads, “This judgment further heightens our fears that the All Progressives Congress (APC)-controlled Federal Government is bent on using certain officials within our judiciary to suppress the opposition and subvert the will of the people. The statement further reads:…
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will resume Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) nationwide in the second quarter of 2021. Wunmi Balogun, INEC Head of ICT, Ibadan, gave the hint at the training of electoral officers and assistants electoral officers of Polling Units (PUs) in Ibadan on Monday. Balogun disclosed that the commission would use INEC Voters Enrolment Devices for the CVR instead of the Direct Data Capturing Machine. Mutiu Agboke, Oyo INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) said the training was to address the challenges faced by voters on access to polling units during elections. “What we are doing is to…
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, received former Gov. Gbenga Daniel of Ogun State and former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole ,who recently defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Chairman, Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the APC, and Governor of Yobe, Mai Mala Buni, accompanied Governors of Jigawa, Badaru Abubakar and Kebbi, Atiku Bagudu, presented Daniel and Bankole to the president. Daniel was governor of Ogun State from 2003 to 2011 while Bankole was Speaker of the House of Representatives (2007–2011), all on the platform…
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo state has said that the people of the state would not support the secession plans being promoted by some Yoruba leaders. Akeredolu said this at the swearing-in of Princess Oladunni Odu, the first female Secretary to the State Government, SSG, since the creation of the state, and four Special Advisers in Akure, the state capital. “l must not fail to comment on the current agitations by some people who express grievances arising from the challenges of nationhood. “The noises generated by seeming inaction or passive indifference on the part of elected and appointed representatives of…
Ninety-four days to the June 26, 2021 primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State, the possibility of producing consensus candidate is being opposed and discouraged by many aspirants as well as top leaders of the party. This emerged just as zoning arrangement has suffered setbacks. Four governorship aspirants who have so far picked expression of interests and nomination forms from the PDP national secretariat are Senator Uche Ekwunife, Obiora Okonkwo, Chris Azugbogu and Witson Udeh and they cut across the three senatorial districts of Anambra State. A member of the PDP’s National Working Committee (NWC), who…
Saraki maintains that if the PDP is given another chance, Nigerians will see the difference. Ex-President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, has called on Nigerians to back the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as it seeks to lead the country again in 2023. The PDP lost a 16-year hold on the center in 2015, following a keenly contested and closely watched presidential race between Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP and Muhammadu Buhari of the APC. Saraki made the remarks while inaugurating DLA Road, adjoining streets, Government Primary School, Junior Staff Quarters, in Asaba on Friday, March 19, 2021. He said that…
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has urged Nigerians not to politicise the recent armed attack on him by suspected militia herdsmen but treat it on the merit of the insecurity bedeviling the country. Governor Ortom who briefed journalists on Monday at the Benue Peoples House Makurdi after an emergency security council meeting said everyone is part of the fight against insecurity and the earlier people treat security issues on its merit, the better. He stated that the security council had reviewed the situation and decided that government would provide the political will while security agencies work assiduously to unmasked those…
Buba Galadima, an estranged political associate of President Muhammadu Buhari, has said Nigerians should reject both Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, if they fall short of expectations. Galadima was reacting to calls by some Nigerians asking Atiku and Tinubu to bury their presidential ambition and allow the youths to run in 2023. Speaking with the media, Galadima stressed that both Atiku and Tinubu reserved the right to run for the country’s highest political office. He said: “Which part of the constitution stops any Nigerian from running for an…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has vowed not to surrender to what it called ‘electoral banditry’ aimed at discrediting the electoral process and retuning pre-determined outcomes. Mr Festus Okoye, INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, made the vow in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Sunday, in Abuja. Okoye was speaking on the decision to indefinitely suspend the Saturday Ekiti East State Constituency 1 election held in Ekiti State. He said that the decision was necessary to preserve the integrity of the country’s elections, as well as safeguard the lives of…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, of moves to disrupt the nation’s democracy through acts of banditry and electoral violence. The party stated this on Sunday in a statement signed by Kola Ologbondiyan, its spokesman. According to the main opposition party, “the silence of the APC and the Buhari Presidency to the attack and assassination attempt on Benue State Governor, Dr Samuel Ortom, by bandits, who were reported as killer herdsmen, calls for serious concern.” The PDP also stressed that “the silence of the APC and the Buhari Presidency to the violence unleashed…
A member of the National Assembly, Hon Uzoma Nkem Abonta has lashed out at Senator Orji Uzor Kalu for misleading the public and claiming that the infrastructure currently being executed in Aba is being done by the federal government. Rep Abonta, representing Ukwa East/Ukwa West in the House of Representatives, in video on Sunday, wondered why Orji Kalu should turn a campaign for elective position to a campaign of calumny, deceit, falsehood and wicked propaganda. He accused Kanu who represents Abia North of deliberately spreading falsehood to sway victory for his younger brother, Maskot even when he truly knows that…
The Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, has said the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) will soon collapse. According to him, APC has lost focus and Nigerians no longer had confidence in the party. Tambuwal stated this while speaking to supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), during the flag off of the Eastern Senatorial Zone campaign at Gwadabawa town, in readiness for the local government elections on March 27. He added that was why he was not surprised by the decision of the state chapter of the APC to boycott the local government elections. Tambuwal noted that the APC-led…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expelled its Chairman and Women Leader in Matazu Local Government Area of Katsina State, Alhaji Murtala Tukur and Hajiya Hadiza Ibrahim. The Caretaker Committee Chairman, Alhaji Jabir Adamu, made this known on Sunday while addressing newsmen shortly after a stakeholders’ meeting of the party in Matazu. Adamu disclosed that the duo were expelled for anti-party activities during their general meeting held at Matazu town recently. The decision was taken during a meeting between members and executives of the party from the wards to the local government levels. “Party members at the meeting expressed dismay…
Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has described the killing in Omuo Ekiti today, by suspected political thugs as “clear evidence of terrorism against citizens, who have rejected the party in government.” The former governor said killing innocent people, just because of a five wards House of Assembly bye-election was barbaric and shameful. He said: “I thought we have gone past this barbarism in Ekiti State especially when we are confronted with national insecurity to which the government have no solution. “What was witnessed today in Omuo Ekiti is nothing but terrorism against the people of Ekiti, knowing that…
The Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in December 5, 2020 Cross River North Senatorial by-election, Mr. Joe Agi (SAN) has declared that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had no candidate for the election. Agi petitioned the candidacy of Dr. Stephen Odey (first respondent) and that of Mr. Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe (second respondent) as PDP candidates at the By-election Petition Tribunal for the by-election, in which Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) eventually declared Odey as winner. Odey was also issued certificate of return by INEC and was subsequently, inaugurated by the Senate. But in a twist of event, Jarigbe…
Philip Shaibu, the Deputy Governor of Edo, said that a president from the South South in 2023 would balance the political equation of the country. Chief Dan Orbih, the National Vice Chairman, South South, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has pledged to reposition the party and make it stronger ahead of the 2023 general elections. Orbih made the pledge on Saturday in Benin, at a victory reception organised for him by his party members and friends.. Orbih, who was returned unopposed at the congress held at the Obi Wali International Conference Centre, had polled 960 votes out of the…
Yiaga Africa has described the violence that rocked that Ekiti East State bye-election, which was held on Saturday as despicable and antithetical. While condemning the violence the election, the group in a statement on Sunday, said that electoral impunity must be addressed in order to frontally curb the menace. According to the Director of Programs, Yiaga Africa, Cynthia Mbamalu, the unleashing of mayhem during the electoral process, which resulted in the death of Nigerians performing their civic duty and gunshot wounds sustained by an NYSC member and a female police officer at their duty post, was an assault on democracy…
The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, has disclosed that a corps member sustained a gunshot injury during the Ekiti State bye-election on Saturday. NYSC said the affected corps member, who worked as an ad-hoc staff during the election, sustained the injury when hoodlums attacked a polling unit during the poll. The scheme’s Director of Press and Public Relations, Adenike Adeyemi, also revealed that the Corps member was responding to treatment. Adeyemi called for the protection of Corps members because they are apolitical. According to Adeyemi: “NYSC Management wishes to announce that a Corps Member who was part of the adhoc…
Wike says Jonathan knows he won’t support him if he defects to the APC. Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has declared that former President Goodluck Jonathan won’t get his support if the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) gives him the 2023 presidential ticket. The governor said his party’s interest is more important to him, adding that he won’t engage in anti-party activity. He, however, affirmed that the people of Rivers State would support the ex-president if the ruling party presents him. According to a statement by his media aide, Kelvin Ebiri, the governor said this while speaking to the BBC…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said as a statesman, he would live the rest of his life serving humanity. NAN reports that Obasanjo spoke on Saturday in Abeokuta at the 20th anniversary of the Communion Faith Assembly and new chapel dedication. The head of the church is Bishop Tunde Akin-Akinsanya, the chairman, Ogun chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). Obasanjo told the gathering that he arrived from Sudan on Friday night and would be travelling back to the United States on Sunday. “I am committed to global peace and service to humanity and I am here to play my…