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2015: INEC registers APC as political party

Posted by admin 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 […]

Nobody can force me out of PDP – Amaechi

Posted by admin 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 […]

Tukur’s topsy-turvy peace mission

Posted by admin 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 […]

Court stops PDP special convention

Posted by admin 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 […]

Ife Mayhem: Hon Makinde Condemns PDP attack on ACN members

Posted by admin 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 […]

We don’t have leaders in PDP —Peterside

Posted by admin 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 […]

Rivers crisis: PDP bids Amaechi bye

Posted by admin 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, […]

Rivers crisis: Eight opposition govs visit Amaechi

Posted by admin 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, […]

PDP crisis: Jonathan overrules Tukur on convention

Posted by admin Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) Thursday, July 18th, 2013

President Goodluck Jonathan has overruled the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Dr. Bamanga Tukur, on the suspension of the mini convention of the party. Tukur and other members of the National Working Committee of the PDP had on Monday asked the members of the Convention Committee, headed by Prof. Jerry Gana, to suspend […]

PDP crisis festers as Tukur stops Gana panel

Posted by admin Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) Monday, July 15th, 2013

The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party took a new turn on Monday with the party’s National Chairman, Dr. Bamanga Tukur, asking members of the National Convention Committee headed by Prof. Jerry Gana to stay action on the plan. The decision to suspend the action of the committee, which had earlier fixed the national convention […]