Politics

The Secretary of the Imo State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party, Hon Nze Ray Emeana says that there is no crisis in the state party, insisting that the party has not lost any substantial personality.

This was even as he alleged that the eight PDP state legislators who defected to the All Progressives Congress were lured with the promise of ₦50m  and two plots of lands in Owerri by the state government which he said is desperate to have a majority in the state legislative Assembly.

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When President Mohammadu Buhari in 2018, honoured the late Moshood Kashimawo Abiola (MKO) with the Grand Commander of the Federal Republic (GCFR) and Babagana Kingibe with Grand Commander of the Niger (GCON), winners of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential elections, political pundits had predicted that such recognitions would automatically bolster the Social Democratic Party (SDP) on whose platform they contested. The situation is however  different as at today as infighting, backstabbing and poor performance had crippled the party.

The name SDP as a registered political party drew sympathy, as politicians jostled to be identified with it notwithstanding that …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has ruled out the possibility of changing its name, ahead of the 2023 general election.

The spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, said this was part of decisions reached at the party’s 88th National Executive Committee ( NEC) in Abuja, yesterday.

“The party insists that the PDP brand is still the best in the political firmament of our nation and as such, those canvassing for a change of name should forget it because we remain the Peoples Democratic Party.”

He said the PDP has constituted a committee to review the conduct of the 2019 general elections and ascertain …

A faction of the ‎All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo South, has warned the National Chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, not to hold any rally in the south.

‎The warning is coming on the heels of a rally last Saturday at Auchi, where Oshiomhole received over 30,000 defectors from the People’s Democratic Party into the APC.

Addressing journalists in Benin City, the Political Adviser to Governor Godwin Obaseki (Edo South), Hon. Monday Iyoha Osaigbovo, wondered why the law enforcement agencies allowed the Auchi rally to hold in spite of “a current ban on political rallies” in the state.…

 A member-elect of the House of Representatives, Rep. Ado Doguwa says the All Progressives Congress (APC) is in absolute control and has a firm grip of Kano State.

Doguwa made this known in an interview with journalists in Abuja, after presenting his certificate of return to the Clerk of the National Assembly, following his victory in jan. 25, Kano rerun election.
Doguwa debunked claims that the re-run election was marred by violence and electoral malpractices.
The member-elect said that the election was free and fair, describing the state as a progressive state.
According to him, local and foreign observers including …

Two weeks ago on January 14, the Supreme Court nullified the governorship election of Emeka Ihedioha of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and declared candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hope Uzodinma, governor of Imo.

Highly controversial, the judgment catapulted Mr. Uzodinma, who during the March 9, 2019 election had pulled 96,458 votes to settle at fourth place. According to records from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Ihedioha led comfortably in first place with 273,404 votes to his credit.

Reactions that immediately trailed the judgment on social media shows that Nigerians have lost hope in the judiciary as …

At its inauguration on June 13, 2019, the ninth Imo State House of Assembly (ISHA) had started showing signs that it was in a bad situation. There was a scampering by the lawmakers to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), particularly those who did not win their election of the platform of the PDP. The motivation was clearly to identify with the governor of the state, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, a member of the PDP. To this end, the original 13 PDP lawmakers were denied some plum position in order to accommodate the interests of those that recently switched political party …