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Action Congress of Nigeria, All Peoples' Congress (APC), Party Politics, Top Stories
Friday, August 2nd, 2013
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 […]
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Adamawa, Jigawa, Niger, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Raw Politics, Sokoto, State News, Top Stories
Wednesday, July 31st, 2013
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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All Peoples' Congress (APC), Party Politics, Top Stories
Wednesday, July 31st, 2013
Nigeria’s electoral agency on Wednesday approved the merger of three leading opposition parties ahead of presidential polls in 2015, potentially setting up a stiff challenge to the ruling party. The electoral commission said the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) would now be known as […]
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Headlines, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)
Thursday, July 25th, 2013
Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, has said nobody can stampede him out of the Peoples Democratic Party. The governor also said he did not have to tell President Goodluck Jonathan or anybody about his ambition before contesting any public office. Amaechi, who said he had yet to declare his ambition to contest the Vice-Presidency in […]
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Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)
Thursday, July 25th, 2013
BY HENRY UMORU THE Bamanga Tukur-led National Working Committee, NWC of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, last Monday, rolled out a list of 30 members under the name, ‘reconciliatory panel,’ with Governor Henry Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, the home state of President Goodluck Jonathan, as chairman. The idea of having a reconciliation committee to […]
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Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)
Thursday, July 25th, 2013
An Abuja High Court on Thursday described the Peoples Democratic Party’s plan to hold its special convention on August 31 as “recklessness of a high degree.” It therefore stopped the convention pending the determination of a suit filed by three members of the party: Abba Yale, Yahaya Sule and Bashir Maigudu. The action by the […]
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Action Congress of Nigeria, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)
Thursday, July 25th, 2013
By Bisade Hughes Sequel to attacks unleashed on seven members of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) at Yekemi Abata Egba in Ife East Local Government Area of Osun State on Wednesday, by thugs suspected to be members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the lawmaker representing Ife federal constituency, Hon. Rotimi Makinde, has condemned […]
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Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)
Wednesday, July 24th, 2013
In this interview with OLUSOLA FABIYI, the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream), Dakuku Peterside, speaks about the crisis in Rivers State and the PDP. Excerpts: The Rivers State we used to know was a peaceful one, but peace appears to have now eluded it, what happened? Rivers State is […]
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Headlines, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Rivers, State News, Top Stories
Sunday, July 21st, 2013
Obuah faction wants him out •No, he remains our leader-says factional leader •Amaechi remains PDP leader in Rivers – Ake faction The Obuah –led faction of the PDP in Rivers State wants Governor Rotimi Amaechi out of the party as soon as possible. The faction, which has already suspended the governor for alleged anti-party activities, […]
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Action Congress of Nigeria, Headlines, Party Politics, Rivers, State News
Friday, July 19th, 2013
Thousands of youths stormed the Port Harcourt International Airport in Omagwa Rivers State to receive five Action Congress of Nigeria governors who were on a solidarity visit to Governor Rotimi Amaechi. The governors – Babatunde Fashola (Lagos); Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti); Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo); Rauf Aregbesola (Osun); and Ibikunle Amosu (Ogun) – had in their company, […]
