In 2008, when it became clear to analysts of the United States presidential election that Senator Barack Obama could surpass their expectations and beat favorite Hillary Clinton to the ticket of the Democratic Party, Hillary’s team decided to float a kite aimed at halting the rapid disintegration of her...
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It’s indeed difficult supressing a yawn of boredom when observant analysts note various efforts at diverting, diminishing or smearing Rivers State Governor, His Excellency Ezenwo Nyesom Wike’s resolute and articulate trajectory since he declared his presidential aspiration recently. This legitimate quest for higher political responsibility beyond the Brick House,...
Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed has ascribed his endorsement as northern pressidential consensus candidate of the PDP alongside former President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, as the work of God. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Northern PDP Elders Forum led by Prof. Ango Abdullahi, on...
The drive to produce a consensus presidential candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for 2023 election has collapsed . This was disclosed in a statement issued on Friday night by the Tambuwal Campaign Organization (TCO), the campaign platform of a PDP Presidential Aspirant, Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto...
A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, ordered former Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, to vacate his seat as member representing Dass, Tafawa Balewa and Bogoro Federal Constituency in Bauchi State. Delivering judgment, Justice Donatus Okorowo, declared that having defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has revealed why he did not meet Edo Governor Godwin Obaseki when he visited the State last week. Wike, who was in the Edo State capital as part of consultation for his presidential aspiration, neither met with Obaseki nor his deputy, Philip Shaibu. He...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the All Progressives Congress (APC) high cost for nomination and expression of interest forms for elective positions for 2023 has disenfranchised many Nigerians. The PDP National Chairman, Sen. Iyorchia Ayu stated this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja The APC has pegged...
Ex-Anambra State Governor and Presidential aspirant, Peter Obi has promised to turn the country around in four years if elected into office in 2023. Mr Obi stated this in Awka, Anambra State capital during the Anambra Central Senatorial District stakeholders’ briefing/town hall meeting organised by Senator Uche Ekwunife to...
The Peoples Democratic Party has again extended the date for its sale of nomination and expression of interest forms to Friday. The last day for the submission of already completed forms is now Monday April 25, 2022. The National Publicity Secretary, Mr Debo Ologunagba, disclosed this in a statement...
PATRICK ABANG Calabar A frontline governorship aspirant in Cross River State, Imah Nsa Adegoke of the People’s Democratic party (PDP) has said that her mission in politics is to shift the cycle of injustice and inequality in governance in Cross River State. “If the proper parameters of Justice, equity...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – One of the leading presidential aspirants of PDP and Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has urged members of the National Working Committee (NWC) to avoid the mistakes of conducting the forth coming election to favour any particular person or groups. Governor Wike...
Bode George, chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says the party will be “roundly defeated” in the 2023 presidential election if zoning is jettisoned. The PDP is yet to make a decision on which region of the country will produce the party’s 2023 presidential candidate. The development has...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Working Committee (NWC) has called on all the party’s presidential aspirants not to attack one another in the course of seeking its ticket. The Party’s National Chairman, Sen. Iyorchia Ayu, made the call when the NWC gave audience to one of the presidential...
Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal has said having a consensus presidential candidate for 2023 is healthy for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Governor Tambuwal, who is one of the PDP’s presidential candidates, stated this while speaking with newsmen shortly after submitting his nomination and expression of interest form for...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential hopeful, Governor Nyesom Wike, has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its aspirants of paying lip service to Nigeria’s deteriorating socioeconomic conditions, saying that they lack the capacity to deliver the urgent interventions required to salvage the situation....
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike says the presidential pardon for persons prosecuted on corruption charges by the federal government only suggests that there is no need to have anti-corruption agencies in the country. Governor Wike wondered how to explain the embarrassment that the...
As the nomination congress approaches, rumblings within the party rise to an acrimonious crescendo and the troubleshooting market blossoming in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which is in desperate yearning for his tested skills, we are surprised- so too are many others- that the Catholic Bishop of the...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Speaker of the Bauchi State House of Assembly, Abubakar Suleiman, has formally tendered his resignation letter from the All Progressives Congress Party (APC). Suleiman who represents Ningi Constituency, said he dumped the party upon which he was elected in 2019 because of the crisis...
By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly, Hon Titus Uba has emerged as the governorship consensus candidate for the People’s Democratic Party, PDP from the 14 local government areas of the Tiv speaking areas in the state This is following a painstaking process...
Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige, has joined the race for the 2023 presidential seat. His media office stated on Sunday that the minister had been consulting stakeholders in his All Progressives Congress (APC) party as well as stalwarts of opposition political parties. He is scheduled to...