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Jigawa, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News
Thursday, April 4th, 2013
Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido, has said the Peoples Democratic Party will not embarrass its National Chairman, Dr. Bamanga Tukur. He said the problems in the party were not strange. Lamido said this in Abuja on Thursday while addressing journalists after the meeting of the committee set up by the governors to handle […]
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Party Politics
Thursday, April 4th, 2013
A fresh crisis may soon rock the All Progressives Congress as a splinter group in the All Nigeria Peoples Party is seeking a halt to the merger and registration of the APC. The ANPP is one of the three main opposition parties spearheading the formation of APC to defeat the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in […]
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Governors, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)
Sunday, March 31st, 2013
By Henry Umoru *‘My findings on the multiple crises in ruling party’ Alhaji Bamanga Tukur is the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. He was General Manager, Nigeria Ports Authority. In 1983, he was elected governor of old Gongola State, now Adamawa and Taraba States; in 1992, he was a presidential aspirant of […]
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Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)
Wednesday, March 27th, 2013
By Henry Umoru, Joseph Erunke & Umar Yusuf YOLA— National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, yesterday, declared that Nigeria was under siege following incessant attacks in parts of the country by terrorist groups. He spoke as the Senate tasked the Service Chiefs and Heads of Security Agencies to immediately find […]
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Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)
Tuesday, March 26th, 2013
ALARMED by the possibility of disintegration, the Peoples Democratic Party leaders have decided to come down from their high horse and beg the aggrieved governors of the party, The PUNCH learnt on Monday. The governors’ mass boycott of the party’s peace meeting and celebration of the first anniversary of its National Working Committee, chaired by […]
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Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)
Monday, March 25th, 2013
By Luka Binniyat The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alh. Bamangar Tukur, yesterday, said the party would face a “heavy” war ahead of the 2015 elections, saying “ there is a group that just came up (ostensibly referring to APC) and wants to sweep the mat off our feet”. The PDP boss, […]
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Akwa Ibom, Headlines, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News
Sunday, March 24th, 2013
Ibom State Governor Godswill Akpabio has confessed to manipulating the result of a 2007 Peoples Democratic Party senatorial primary election in the state by single-handedly replacing the winner with the name of his preferred candidate. Akpabio, who is also the PDP Governors Forum chairman, made the confession when a delegation of the National Good Governance […]
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Party Politics
Thursday, March 14th, 2013
BY Johnbosco Agbakwuru & Gabriel Ewepu …Unveils logo, acronym, emblem ABUJA—The battle for ascendancy among the political opposition got messier, Thursday, after the brains behind the controversial African Peoples Congress, APC, emerged to unfold their logo, constitution and emblem. The new group whose aspiration for registration with the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has thrown […]
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Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)
Wednesday, March 13th, 2013
There was anger at the headquarters of the Peoples Democratic Party in Abuja on Wednesday over the decision of the National Council of State to pardon some very important persons convicted of corruption and other offences. Some officials of the party, who spoke on condition of anonymity, wondered the kind of message the Federal Government, […]
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INEC Politics, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of engaging in bare-faced lies and manipulation of facts by claiming that the phantom African Peoples Congress has applied to the commission for registration. In a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the […]