Category: Politics

Delegates at the ongoing national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party are about to vote for candidates of the National Working Committee membership. Those from Abia State were called to come forward and cast their ballots at 5.04pm. The states are to vote in alphabetical order. As of Friday night, 19 of the 21 positions […]

The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forum and Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwual, has said he and his colleagues were working towards ensuring that all members of the new National Working Committee emerge via consensus. He said this after a meeting of the PDP-GF in Abuja, late on Thursday. Tambuwual said, “We have […]

Some of the 3,600 delegates expected for the national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party have started arriving in Abuja, the nation’s capital. One of our correspondents, who visited the Eagle Square, venue of the event, on Thursday, observed that the PDP flag had been hoisted in the venue, while banners and decorations adorned the […]

Less than twenty-four hours to the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) national convention, the party is back to the precarious position it found itself shortly after losing the 2015 general election. But, unlike the immediate post 2015 dilemma, PDP is bogged by twin challenges of zoning the 2023 Presidential ticket and what to do with the […]

• 14 members, HURIWA discredit exercise Plateau State House of Assembly is in disarray as eight of the 24 members, yesterday morning, reportedly impeached the Speaker, Abok Ayuba, and installed Yakubu Sanda (Pengana-Bassa constituency of Jos North Local Council) in his place. The Guardian gathered that the eight members were loyal to Governor Simon Lalong. […]

An Appeal Court sitting in Port Harcourt on Thursday reserved ruling on an appeal filed by the suspended National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Uche Secondus, urging the court to suspend the party’s national convention scheduled for October 30 and 31, 2021 in Abuja respectively. The three-man panel, led by Justice Haruna Tsammani, after […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has dismissed the purported impeachment of the speaker of Plateau State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Abok Ayuba, as a ridicule of democracy and governance, vowing to challenge it. Ayuba was on Thursday impeached by eight of the 24 Assembly members over alleged abuse of office and financial misappropriation.- But […]

The Speaker, Plateau House of Assembly, Mr Abok Ayuba, has been impeached by eight of the 24 members of the legislature. The unusual sitting on Thursday morning, presided by the Deputy Speaker, Saleh Yipmong, elected Yakubu Sanda (APC-Pengana) as the new speaker. It was learnt that the eight members gained access to the House as […]

Four Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors are in Ondo State to woo former Governor Olusegun Mimiko back to the party. A large number of Zenith Labour Party(ZLP) members are at the residence of Mimiko in Ondo town to welcome the PDP contingent led by Oyo Governor Seyi Makinde. Other Governors in the team are Nyesom […]

A former Senate President Dr. Olubukola Saraki has said the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will soon be hit by massive defections as a former Governor and some bigwigs are set to dump the party for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) The APC however said the former Kwara Governor must be engrossed by his imagination, […]