March 13, 2012 by Olusola Fabiyi, Lekan Adetayo and Oluwole Josiah, Abuja President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday begged governors from the North-East to back his candidate to be the new chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party. A source in government told THE PUNCH that the President did so at a meeting held at the Presidential […]
The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) met yesterday to decide on guidelines for the March 24 national convention, Assistant Editor GBADE OGUNWALE reports the intrigues and forces at work. The search for a new set of national executive to run the affairs of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the […]
Senators elected on the platform of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday threw their weight behind President Goodluck Jonathan on membership of the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC). Almost two years after the idea was first mooted in the National Assembly, lawmakers are inching closer to achieving that aim in 2012. Earlier reports indicated […]
A pressure group, Goodluck Nigeria International, has expressed the desire of its members, home and abroad, to mobilise Nigerians to support Alhaji Bamanga Tukur for the National Chairmanship of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The statement was contained in a press release by the national chairman of the organisation, Alhaji Lekan Yusuf, and made available […]
The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has removed ministers, ambassadors and presidential advisers as automatic members of the party’s congresses and convention. Also removed are the state commissioners, advisers to governors, chairmen and members of federal and state boards and parastatals. This was contained in a memo sent to members of the National Executive […]
February 20, 2012 by Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has concluded plans to curb the powers of governors elected under the umbrella of the party by limiting their influence. Already, the Constitution Review Committee of the party led by the PDP’s National Legal Adviser, Chief Olusola Oke, has recommended that […]
Yola – Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Alhaji Nasir el-Rufai has taken a hard knock on the present PDP-led Federal government, describing the party’s regimes since the enthronement of democracy in the country as disastrous. “PDP regimes in the past twelve years of our democratic system is not only disastrous, but completely against […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission on Thursday excluded the Peoples Democratic Party from the list of 36 candidates for the forthcoming governorship election in Bayelsa State. In the list published on its website, INEC left the space for PDP candidate and running mate without any names. Instead, it stated, ‘Subject to litigation’. The party is […]
FOLLOWING the protests and tension that greeted the removal of subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) by the Federal Government, the National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday postponed the forthcoming congresses and the national convention of the party. A statement issued in Abuja by the party’s National Publicity […]
*The budget must challenge us— Mark *It’s budget of transformation— PDP By Henry Umoru, Clara Nwachukwu& Emman Ovuakporie ABUJA- SENATE President David Mark yesterday warned that as a nation, we must all be challenged by the 2012 budget proposals if the desired results must be achieved, just as he described the implementation of past budgets […]
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