BY RICHARD ABU, Abuja – The Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BOT) of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Senator Wali Jibrin has expressed happiness over the emergence of Atiku Abubakar as the flag bearer of the party in the forthcoming 2023 general election. Senator Jibrin in his congratulatory...
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Presidential aspirant, Peter Obi has congratulated former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, on his emergence as the flagbearer for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the forthcoming presidential election. Obi who was Atiku’s running mate in the 2019 election, took to Twitter on Sunday to share a warm message of...
There is tight security within and outside the Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja, Venue of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Convention. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN reports presence of security officers including police, Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, Department of State Security, at different locations around...
The Minority leader of the Senate, Enyinnaya Abaribe, has resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Senator Abribe made his decision known in a letter to the Ward Chairman of the PDP in his ward, Ward 5, Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia State. In the letter dated May...
Sheriff Oborevwori, Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly, has emerged winner of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primary for the 2023 general election. Oborevwori polled a total of 590 votes to beat his closest rival, former Chief of Staff, Government House, Chief David Edevbie, who scored a total...
Alhaji Mohammed Jajari has emerged governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2023 general election in Borno State. Jajari polled 487 votes to defeat Mohammed Imam who polled 362 in the primary election held on Wednesday in Borno state. Announcing the results, Abdulrahman Bobboi, the Chairman...
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, refused to grant an ex parte application filed by Mr Farah Dagogo asking the court to stop the gubernatorial primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers. Dagogo, a member of the House of Representatives from Rivers approached the court...
Adamawa State Governor, Ahmadu Umaru Fintri has won the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primaries in the state. The state governor won with a total of 663 of the 668 votes, with five of the votes declared void. Details later……
Former Deputy President of the Senate, Chief Ike Ekweremadu has announced his withdrawal from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial primaries. The Director-General, Ikeoha Campaign Organisation, Mr Charles Asogwa, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Enugu. Recall that the PDP had fixed May 25, 2022 as its...
Violence erupted midway into the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ) primary election for Abia North Senatorial District on Tuesday, bringing the exercise to an abrupt end. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the three-member ad hoc delegates election was organised at the Ohafia Local Government Headquarters, near...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – A former Cross River State Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Ntufam Ekpo Okon has clinched the party’s tickets as Cross River South Senatorial candidate for the 2023 general election. Announcing the results of the primary election, held at Vanecia Arena in Calabar,...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bauchi State says it remains strong and stable to reclaim the state from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the 2023 general elections. Spokesman of the state’s chapter of the APC’s, Mr Adamu Jalla, made the claim on Monday the when he...
Former Governor Abdul-Aziz Yari of Zamfara and Sen. Kabiru Marafa have dumped the All Progressive Congress (APC) and joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The PDP Chairman in Zamfara, Col. Bala Mande (rtd), stated this during a news conference at the end of the State Working Committee meeting of...
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Kassim Afegbua, has hinted at a possible lawsuit against the party if its National Executive Committee (NEC) fails to zone its presidential ticket to the southern region for the 2023 general elections. According to Afegbua, failure to zone the ticket...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Speaker of the Cross River State House of Assembly, Eteng Jonah Williams on Tuesday sworn in Dr Ekeng Efiom Edet of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), representing Akpabuyo State Constituency. The newly sworn in member had, in the February 26 Akpabuyo State constituency by-election,...
Alhaji Kabiru Adjoto, Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Edo e-registration committee on Wednesday said that the state was fast becoming the strongest PDP base in Nigeria. Adjoto, who said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Benin on Thursday, said that this was on account...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Mr Shekwogaza Gabaya of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as the winner of Bwari Area Council Chairmanship Election. Prof. Amuche Madu, the INEC Returning/Collation Officer for the election announced this on Sunday in Bwari. Madu said that Gabaya polled 13, 045...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday declared Christopher Zakka of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as winner of the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) Chairmanship election held on Saturday. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the PDP candidate scored 19,302 votes to defeat Murtala Usman of...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has postponed its North-West Zonal Congress earlier slated for Saturday. The National Organising Secretary, Umar Bature, disclosed this in a statement issued to newsmen in Abuja on Friday. Mr. Bature said that a...
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has urged the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) residents and members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to come out en masse and exercise their franchise in the Feb. 12 area councils election. Abubakar made the call in a statement by his Media Adviser, Paul...