States Governorship Candidates Party Governorship Candidates Party Abia State Nyere Anyim APC Dr Okezie Victor Ikpeazu PDP Adamawa State Umaru Jibrila Bindow APC Mallam Nuhu Ribadu PDP Akwa Ibom State Mr. Umana Okon Umana APC Udom Gabriel Emmanuel PDP Anambra State NILL APC NILL PDP Bauchi State Barrister Mohammed Abubakar APC Awwal Jatau PDP Bayelsa…
Delay Mars Lagos PDP Governorship Primary
Against the expectation of party members, delegates, media and observers of the December 8 governorship primary of the Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the process was delayed for over five hours behind schedule. Although the party could not give reasons for the delay in the commencement of the process of electing…
Mu’azu Petitioned by Aggrieved Aspirants
Adamu Mu’azu, National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has been petitioned by some aggrieved Senatorial and House of Representatives aspirants in Adamawa State who described as “improper and illegal,”the Senatorial/House of Representatives primaries conducted in the state. The aspirants who revealed that those who decided the winners at the party primaries on Sunday…
Intrigues At Delta Governorship Primary
With the governorship primary election of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in Delta State under way in Asaba, the state capital, there are indications that the unwritten zoning arrangement which had favoured the Delta North Senatorial district to produce the successor to incumbent governor, Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, may have collapsed. Twenty-four hours to the primary…
PDP Cancels Governorship Primary in Ogun State
The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has cancelled the governorship primary election earlier scheduled to hold in Ogun State today. In a statement issued in Abuja today by Olisa Metuh, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, the PDP said that the primary election was not authorized. “For the avoidance of doubt, the…
Fayose Asks PDP To Suspend Obasanjo
Angered by recent public criticisms of the President Goodluck Jonathan led administration by OlusegunObasanjo, former Nigerian President, AyodeleFayose, Ekiti State Governor has urged the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to urgently suspend Obasanjo over what he called anti-party activities. In a statement issued on Friday by LereOlayinka,Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media to the…
APC Accuses DSS Of Torture
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has accused the Department of State Security Services, DSS of using torture to obtain forced confessions from the workers who were arrested during a raid on the party’s Data Centre in Ikeja, Lagos. The party said the action was in contravention of the UN Convention against Torture to which Nigeria…
Abuja Court Dismisses Tukur’s Suit
A Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed the suit brought before it by Aliyu Buba Gurin seeking the sack of Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, as the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the reinstatement of the Bamanga Tukur, the immediate past chairman of the party. The trial judge, Justice Evoh Chukwu, also…
Tambuwal: PDP’s Fundamental Error
Lasun Yusuff, represents Osogbo/Olorunda /Irepodun /Orolu Federal Constituency of Osun State at the National Assembly since 2011. He is a member of the Appropriation Committee in the House. In this interview with Olusegun Adeosun, reporter and Paul Kuyoro, photojournalist Yusuff, who is also an engineer, bears his mind on why the country has not attained…
‘APC Will Win Rivers Governorship Election’
– Chris Finebone, publicity secretary, APC, Rivers State What are the chances of the APC clinching the governorship seat of the state in the 2015 governorship election? If you follow the recent history of Rivers State, you will realise that we all came into government on the platform of PDP, and a combination of so…
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