The crisis rocking the ruling Peoples Democratic Party has become messier as some of its members have sued the party for violating guidelines for the election of its national officers. Three members – Abba Yale, Alhaji Yahaya Aruwa Sule and Basir Maidugu – are asking an Abuja High Court to compel the party to conduct […]
Chairman, South-South Peoples Democratic Party Forum, Lagos State, Mr. Sunday Ekanem, says the Federal is committed to dialogue with Islamic fundamentalist sect, Boko Haram. He, however, called on northern leaders and those advocating amnesty for the sect to prevail on its leaders to come out openly and tell Nigerians that they are ready for dialogue. […]
By Ben Agande, Abuja & Caleb Ayansina ABUJA — THE National leadership of the Peoples Party, PDP yesterday described the constitution of an Amnesty Committee on the Boko Haram insurgency by President Goodluck Jonathan as the best decision at the moment just as the governors of Kastina and Jigawa states, Ibrahim Shema and Sule Lamido […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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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