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Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Presidency
Sunday, May 15th, 2011
Former military president and Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant, General Ibrahim Babangida has expressed concern over the agitation for zoning of elective offices in the country, few weeks after the April polls. The former aspirant was one of those who insisted that the zoning of party and elective offices as entrenched in the PDP […]
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Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Women Politics
Sunday, May 15th, 2011
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) zoning arrangement came under fire at the weekend as some gender-sensitive women within the party vowed to resist any arrangement that would exclude women from occupying any of the five topmost political positions in the country. Rising from a meeting in Abuja, the women said they were taking their case […]
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Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
Acting National Chairman of the PDP, Haliru Mohammed The expanded national caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party has agreed that the party should maintain its old zoning formula in the sharing of political offices in both the National Assembly and the party. Before the caucus meeting, which began on Tuesday night and ended in […]
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Action Congress of Nigeria, Edo, Party Politics, State News
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
BENIN – AS the battle for the Speakership of the Edo State House of Assembly hots up, the leadership of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in Edo Central senatorial district, has warned against ceding the position to Edo South which produced the Deputy Governor of the state. This comes as the State House of […]
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Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
THE national secretariat of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has become a Mecca of sort as politicians have continued to intensify lobby ahead of the composition of the leadership of the National Assembly and the Federal Executive Council, FEC. The lobby came on the heels of the tentative zoning arrangement by the Peoples Democratic Party, where […]
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CPC (Congress 4 Progressive Change), EFCC Politics, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Latest Politics, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Presidency, Top Stories
Sunday, May 8th, 2011
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) moved swiftly to respond to claims of underhand occurrences in the last presidential election by raising four points which it believed would easily knock off the petition by the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive change (CPC), General Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari had on Friday filed a notice at the […]
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Elections 2011, Governors, Imo, Latest Politics, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, Party Politics, State News
Saturday, May 7th, 2011
The Association of Opposition Political Parties, under the aegis of Patriotic Alliance of Nigeria (PAN) in Imo, on Saturday described the defeat of Gov Ikedi Ohakim as “a new dawn” for the state. In the same vein, the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) says the emergence of Chief Rochas Okorocha also signalled “the end […]
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All People Grand Alliance (APGA), Elections 2011, Imo, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, Party Politics, State News, Top Stories
Saturday, May 7th, 2011
All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, governorship candidate, Rochas Okorocha, has won the Imo state gubernatorial elections. The final results announced by INEC Saturday morning, showed that the APGA candidate scored 336,859 votes with the incumbent governor Ikedi Ohakim scoring 290,490 votes. Supplementary governorship election were supposed to be held, yesterday, in four local councils and one […]
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CPC (Congress 4 Progressive Change), Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Latest Politics, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Party Politics, Presidency, Top Stories
Friday, May 6th, 2011
Says presidential poll not credible || True to its promise, the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) on Friday dragged President Goodluck Jonathan to the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, claiming that the election that returned him as the Nigerian president-elect was not credible. In its ex-parte application filed by […]
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Latest Politics, Ministries, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)
Friday, May 6th, 2011
Going by facts that emerged from President Goodluck Jonathan’s seven-day retreat in Obudu Ranch, Cross River State, many politicians hoping to make the President’s next cabinet are in for the shock of their lives. An investigation on Friday by SATURDAY PUNCH showed that the President, who had begun nationwide consultations, would not limit the […]
