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Senate president can declare seats vacant –Nnamani

Posted by admin Legislature, Senate Saturday, February 15th, 2014

By Chidi Obineche Ever since leaving the exalted seat of senate president in 2007, Dr Ken Nnamani has maintained a studied posture on national affairs, intermittently immersing himself in party issues and national commentaries. Emerging from the lacerations and even adulations of the abortion of the third term gambit of ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo, he zoomed […]

Defection: PDP regains House majority status

Posted by admin Action Congress of Nigeria, House, Legislature, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) Wednesday, February 12th, 2014

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal | credits: File copy The Peoples Democratic Party on Tuesday regained its majority status in the House of Representatives following the defection of five members of the All Progressives Congress to the PDP. The PDP, which had earlier lost the majority status in the House to […]

Uproar as APC Reps stall 2014 budget debate

Posted by admin House, Legislature Saturday, February 8th, 2014

Speaker, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal | credits: File copy Members of the All Progressives Congress in the House of Representatives on Tuesday stalled debate on the 2014 Appropriation Bill. The development appeared to be the first phase of the lawmakers’ compliance with the directive of the national leadership of their party to “block” all Executive bills, […]

Tension rises in Senate

Posted by admin Legislature, Senate Wednesday, February 5th, 2014

The Senate for the second time in two days held an executive session on Wednesday because of the fear that an open deliberation on the defection bid of the 11 Peoples Democratic Party senators to the All Progressives Congress could generate tension. But tension still played out as the aggrieved senators and their APC counterparts […]

Senators’ defection will not affect us — Rivers PDP

Posted by admin Legislature, Rivers, Senate, State News Saturday, February 1st, 2014

THE Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has said the defection of two senators from the party to the All Progressives Congress will not affect its fortunes in the state. Two senators, Magnus Abe, representing Rivers South-East; and Senator Wilson Ake, representing Rivers West, defected from the PDP to the APC. But the […]

Aggrieved PDP senators shun meeting with Mu’azu, govs

Posted by admin All Peoples' Congress (APC), Legislature, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Senate Wednesday, January 29th, 2014

PDP National Chairman, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu National chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, and governors elected on the platform of the party held a closed door meeting with the PDP senators at the official residence of Senate President David Mark, on Wednesday. The agenda of the meeting was not known but sources […]

Defection: Saraki, 10 other PDP senators write Mark

Posted by admin Legislature, Senate Wednesday, January 29th, 2014

MarkThere was confusion on the floor of the Senate on Wednesday, following unconfirmed reports that 11 Senators defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to join the opposition All Progressives Congress. A statement earlier issued by the Interim National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, had said that the 11 Senators had defected. In […]

17 PDP senators’ll defect to APC this week –Saraki

Posted by admin All Peoples' Congress (APC), Legislature, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Senate Sunday, January 26th, 2014

Chairman, Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology, Dr. Bukola Saraki No fewer than 17 senators of the Peoples Democratic Party will this week defect to the All Progressives Congress, Chairman, Senate Committee on Ecology and Environment, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has said. In an interview with journalists in Ilorin on Sunday, Saraki said the concerned […]

I WAS SHOT IN THE CHEST —Senator Abe finally clears the air •Accuses FG of plotting to kill him

Posted by admin Legislature, Nigerian Police, Senate Thursday, January 23rd, 2014

Views: 3234 The fog surrounding the London medical trip of Senator Magnus Abe, the Senator representing Rivers South East zone and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream), has finally been cleared. There had been controversy over whether Abe was really shot during a political rally penultimate Sunday (January 12) in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, […]

Defected lawmakers must lose seats, PDP insists

Posted by admin House, Legislature, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) Thursday, January 23rd, 2014

Members during plenary at the floor of the Nigeria House of Representatives The Peoples Democratic Party is insisting that its members in the National Assembly who defected to the All Progressives Congress must lose their seats. The PDP told an Abuja Federal High Court so in its preliminary objection to a suit filed by Senator […]