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Peoples Democratic Party

Why PDP National Zoning c’ttee meeting ended in deadlock

PDP

By Charles Onyekwere, Abakaliki Facts have emerged on why the meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Convention Committee on Zoning, held in Enugu, last Thursday, ended in a stalemate. It would be recalled that the Chairman of the Committee and Governor of Enugu State, Rt. Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, after the closed-door meeting, told […]

Ahead NEC meeting, PDP governors meet today

Kaduna

Tunde Opalana, Abuja Elected governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will hold an emergency meeting today in Abuja. Director General of the PDP Governors Forum, Hon. Cyril Maduabum in a statement said the meeting was called by the Forum’s chairman and governor of Sokoto State, Rt. Hon. Aminu Waziti Tambuwal after due consultation with […]

PDP shifts inauguration of Anambra governorship campaign council

PDP

Tunde Opalana, Abuja The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has postponed the inauguration of its National Campaign Council for the party’s candidate in the November 6 Anambra State Governorship election till Thursday, September 9. The event earlier slated for 12 noon Monday was shifted on the account of the absence of chairman of the campaign council, […]

PDP crisis: Secondus deputy, Nazif summons emergency NEC meeting for Friday

*As 2 deputies lay claim to acting chairmanship position *Am acting because Deputy National Chairman (South) is incapacitated, says Nazif *NWC to comply with court order – acting National Chairman Tunde Opalana, Abuja Following Monday suspension of the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus by a Rivers State High Court, […]

PDP: Court stops Secondus from parading self as national chairman

rivers

Tunde Opalana, Abuja Renewed crisis has erupted in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a High Court in Rivers State granted an interim order restraining Prince Uche Secondus from parading himself as the National Chairman of the party. Four members of the party, Ibeawuchi Ernest Alex, Dennis Nna Ammadi, Emmanuel Stephen and Umexirije Onucha […]

You are already a failure, PDP mocks Buhari

President Buhari

*Says lame attempt at damage control can’t help APC Tunde Opalana, Abuja The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has told President Muhammadu Buhari that he is already a failure in governance and will leave a failure, adding that his attempt at political damage control cannot help his troubled All Progressives Congress (APC). The PDP described the […]

82.9m Nigerians can’t afford daily meals – PDP

*Says party vindicated by Sanusi’s exposé on Buhari, APC Tunde Opalana, Abuja The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said life is becoming so unbearable in the country under President Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration as more than 82.9 million Nigerians can no longer afford their daily meals and other necessities of life. This […]

APC chair: PDP asks court to remove Buni as Yobe gov

Membership registration, central to rebuilding APC says Buni

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has instituted a suit seeking the removal of Mai Mala Buni from office as Yobe governor. In the suit dated and filed August 12, the PDP submitted that Buni violated Section 183 of the Constitution, when he accepted to serve as chairman of the caretaker committee of the All Progressives […]

Secondus survives as PDP shortens tenure

Secondus

*Holds national convention Oct *To appoint Convention Planning c’ttee next week *Asks Secondus to convoke NEC meeting to fashion zoning Tunde Opalana, Abuja National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, on Tuesday, survived removal plot but not without a cost. He negotiated his survival with two months of the tenure of […]

Banditry: Summon courage to tell Buhari he has failed, PDP counsels Gov. Masari

PDP

*Cautions President to shape up or ship out *Party extols Senator Makarfi at 65 Tunde Opalana, Abuja The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has charges the Governor of Katsina State, Aminu Bello Masari, to stop his empty lamentations over the persistent banditry in the state, but be boldly enough to tell President Muhammadu Buhari and his […]

PDP: Secondus fate hangs as BoT sets up c’ttee to review Crisis

PDP, federal

Tunde Opalana, Abuja Immediate respite may not have come for the embattled National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, as the meeting of the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT) on Thursday failed to reach a truce but rather called for further consultations with other organs, particularly, the Governors Forum. Rather than […]

PDP crisis: I’m not behind plot to sack Secondus – Atiku

Atiku

*Party chair begs aggrieved deputies, says ‘let us end peacefully together’ *BoT member, Joy Emordi decamps to APC Tunde Opalana, Abuja Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has denied speculations that he is fueling the crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) specifically to unseat the National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus. Unconfirmed rumour pervaded the PDP […]

‘Divine Mandate in S’South, S’East not dissolved’

PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Divine Mandate Group Nigeria has said that its South East and South-South chapter is intact and has not been dissolved. The group stated this in reaction to a statement credited to one Umar Adamu Kawo who claimed to have dissolved the structure of the organisation from national to ward level. […]

PDP: Secondus slams N5b libel suit against Afegbua over alleged N10bn misappropriation

PDP

*Demands public apology in media houses *We’ve not been served – Afegbua’s lawyer Tunde Opalana, Abuja The National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has dragged the former Edo State Commissioner for Information, Prince Kassim Afegbua to a Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court Abuja claiming N5b among others for libelous […]

PDP slams Yahaya Bello, says Kogi Gov does not deserve commendation

PDP

The National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kola Ologbondiyan has described Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State as a colossal failure and catastrophic bad luck, who cannot point to any development project he implemented for the benefit of the people. Ologbondiyan, who spoke during his tour of PDP formation in the state […]

E-transmission of votes: PDP accuses NCC of lying to Nigerian

rumours

*as Gov Okowa deplores lawmakers’ rejection *House caucus seeks criminal investigation of NCC officials Tom Okpe, Abuja, Nosa Akenzua, Asaba The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Caucus Leader in the House of Representatives, Representative O. K Chinda, has accused the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) of misleading Nigerians over electronic transmission of votes, saying the commission should […]

Presidency, PDP bicker over comment on 2023

Presidency

By Tunde Opalana The Presidency and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Tuesday, locked horns over the Presidency’s statement that the opposition party should forget about returning to power in 2023, as the masses will trust President Muhammadu Buhari for guidance during the next general election. Speaking shortly after observing the Eid-El-kabir prayers in Daura, Katsina […]

Anambra guber: Confusion as courts recognise Ozigbo, Uba as PDP candidate

Anambra

Confusion seem to reign supreme in the Anambra State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as a Federal High Court in Awka has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to publish the name of Valentine Ozigbo as the candidate of the PDP for the November 6 Anambra State governorship election, while an Anambra […]

June 12: PDP condemns APC, Buhari’s clampdown on peaceful protesters

PDP, APC

Tunde Opalana, Abuja The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has  condemned in the strongest term , the violent clampdown by security  agents on the order  of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and President Muhamamdu Buhari on Nigerians who are peacefully protesting on Democracy Day. The party described the brutal clampdown on citizens on Democracy Day as […]

Buhari claimed our projects, says PDP

Ologbondiyan

*Describes Arise TV interview as appalling, deplorable Tunde Opalana, Abuja The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s performance at the exclusive interview on Arise Television yesterday as appalling and deplorable. The party knocked President Buhari for failing to leverage on the opportunity provided by the interview to talk on sensitive national issues […]