The Chairman of the PeoplesDemocratic Party National Reconciliation Committee, Mr. Seriake Dickson, on Tuesday said it would be wrong to accuse the party of being a religious or a regional party. He said it was only the PDP that had the capacity to produce a president, which he said it did in 1999, even when […]
By SONI DANIEL, REGIONAL EDITOR, NORTH &, HENRY UMORU Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said it is unaware of any offer by President Goodluck Jonathan, to erstwhile Chief Security Officer, CSO, to the late Sani Abacha, Major Al-Mustapha, to join the party. An online publication reported that the President had indeed wooed Al-Mustapha, freed by […]
The Interim National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Mr. Lai Mohammed, in this interview with ALLWELL OKPI, says the lingering crisis in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party is a sign that the party will soon collapse The Peoples Democratic Party has denied being threatened by the registration of the All Progressives Congress, insisting […]
Fomer Head of State Maj.-Gen. Buhari is likely to contest presidential primary of the All Nigeria Peoples Party. His loyalists told SUNDAY PUNCH that despite the anti-Buhari lobby in the APC, the general would contest the primary. SUNDAY PUNCH gathered that the anti-Buhari lobby in APC is made up of two groups. The first group […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is set to quiz the Rivers State House of Assembly Speaker, Otelemaba Amachree, and other principal officers loyal to Governor Rotimi Amaechi. The commission has already interrogated the embattled Majority Leader, Mr. Chidi Lloyd, who has just been granted bail over an attempted murder charge, assault, intent to maim […]
The Presidency has said that if the newly registered All Progressives Congress picks a former Head of State, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, as its presidential candidate, the 2015 election will be a walkover for the Peoples Democratic Party. The Presidency was apparently hitting back at the APC, which earlier said that it would be a disaster […]
A veteran presidential candidate and a major stakeholder in the newly-registered All Progressives Congress, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) on Tuesday said the new party was determined to push out the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in 2015. “The APC is focus-driven to push the PDP out of power by 2015,” Buhari told members of the Democratic […]
The Presidency on Sunday blasted APC leaders saying that they were not only unprogressive but also describing them as “politically expired” politicians. However, the APC reacted swiftly, saying Nigerians knew very well that most of the PDP leaders were septuagenarians and octogenarians. APC national leaders – Chief Bisi Akande is 74 years, Maj.-Gen. Muhamadu Buhari,70; […]
The newly registered All Progressives Congress has begun moves to draft a former Minister of Defence (retd.), General Theophilus Danjuma, into the 2015 presidential election race, Saturday PUNCH has learnt. It was learnt that the North had foreclosed the possibility of getting the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential ticket with President Goodluck Jonathan’s grip on the […]
By Soni Daniel, Regional Editor, North; Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor, Henry Umoru & Tina Akannam ABUJA — NATIONAL Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, yesterday took a swipe at five governors from the North elected on the platform of the party, warning them to show decorum, humility and respect him. One […]
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