Category: Politics

The Tambuwal Campaign Organisation has said that the outcome of the National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will not contested in court. The party’s elective convention is gradually winding down in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. The organisation, in a statement by its spokesperson, Dr. Okey Ikechukwu, said that they believed the fact that the process was transparent, open, free and fair. The statement stressed that all the agents of the presidential aspirants attested to the credibility of the exercise. The statement commended “the convention committee, party…

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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has polled 1,532, at the end of the count of votes at the presidential primary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), To beat 11 other contestants. His closet rival, Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto state scored 693 votes. Atiku, a native of a Fulani village of Jada in Adamawa state, was earlier at the end of votes sorting declared the winner of the primary by his agents Messrs Gbenga Daniel and Ben Bruce. With the win, Atiku Abubakar would have to face incumbent President Muhammadu…

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Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed was affirmed as the consensus candidate of the People Democratic Party(PDP) for Kwara South Senatorial District in the 2019 General Elections. He was affirmed by all delegates from the seven local government councils of Kwara South Senatorial district at the zonal primaries held in Omu Aran. Ahmed attributed his emergence as the PDP Kwara South Senatorial Candidate to the inclusiveness championed by the Saraki political family in the state. In a personally signed statement issued in Ilorin, Governor Ahmed thanked the Senate President, Dr.…

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The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has upheld the governorship primary election held in Lagos state yesterday. There had been confusion on the status of the exercise held in the 245 wards spread across the 20 local governments of the state, following its cancellation by the Chief Clement Ebri-led electoral panel set up by NWC to supervise the poll in which the Managing Director of Lagos State Development and Property Corporation (LSDPC), Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, was his sole challenger. Ebri had told a press conference…

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Prof. Pat Utomi and Chief Great Ogboru have both emerged as governorship candidates at different venues of the APC primaries in Asaba. While Ogboru emerged yesterday at the Federal College of Education College (Technical), Asaba, venue of the primaries supervised by Gen. Lawrence Onoja (rtd) with 3,292 votes from a total of 3,515, Utomi was late on Sunday adopted by Chief Cyril Obodo-led faction on consensus at Nerise Hotel venue, also in Asaba, with 2,481 votes. The Prophet Erue faction’s primaries, which began amid crisis on Sunday, finally started at…

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The senator representing Adamawa Northern Senatorial District, Binta Garba, has said the Peoples Democratic Party, in the twilight of the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan, approached her, as the Chairman of the Adamawa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, to dump the APC. Garba said she was offered over N300m by the PDP so that Governor Jibrilla Bindow, the then candidate of the APC, would not scale through. She said her refusal to accept the bait from the then ruling party averted a crisis with the party gaining…

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-Rights group wants him Impeached A Human Right group, Global Integrity Crusade Network (GICN), has urged the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court to compel the Inspector General of Police to prosecute the Governor of Adamawa state, Muhammad Jibrilla Bindow over offences bothering on perjury. In the originating summons, a copy of which was made available to journalists, the Governor was said not to have completed his secondary education at the Government Secondary School, Mangu, Plateau State, as claimed. Among the relief sought by the plaintiffs is an order…

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Yakubu Dogara, Speaker of the House of Representatives, has condoled with the people and government of Kwara State over the death of Funke Adedoyin, who was a member of the House.  In a condolence message, Dogara described the late Adedoyin as a vibrant lawmaker and dedicated public servant, whose death came as a shock.He prayed for the repose of the soul of the deceased and for God to comfort those she left behind.  Until her death, Adedoyin, who once served as minister of state for Health, represented Irepodun Isin/Ekiti /Oke…

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Gboyega Oyetola, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress has been declared winner of the Osun State governorship election after yesterday’s rerun by the Independent National Electoral Commission. In their appraisal of the Osun State rerun governorship election, the missions of the United States, European Union and the United Kingdom, who were on the ground to monitor the exercise, said there were incidents of harassment and intimidation of voters. Reading the missions’ joint report, the US Consul General, Mr John F. Bray, said, “The missions of the United States, European…

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The impeachment of the Deputy Governor of IMO state, Prince Eze Madumere, by members of the State House of Assembly has been voided by an Imo State High Court presided over by Justice Benjamin Iheka. Delivering the four- hour judgment in suit number HOW/565/2018, instituted by Madumere to challenge his removal from office, Justice Iheka held that “the appointment of the seven-man panel to investigate the allegations of gross misconduct made by the 9th and 10th defendants (Speaker, Imo State House of Assembly and Imo State House of Assembly), against…

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