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NASS leadership election: PDP takes fresh action

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has set up a committee to investigate the voting pattern of its lawmakers during the 9th National Assembly leadership election in June. The Party’s National Chairman, Mr Uche Secondus, who inaugurated the committee on Wednesday in Abuja, said that the committee had three weeks to …

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Bayelsa guber: Senator Diri joins race

Sen. Douye Diri on Wednesday, formally joined the Bayelsa State governorship race on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Speaking with newsmen shortly after obtaining his nomination and expression of interest forms at the PDP National Headquarters in Abuja, Diri said he had no inordinate ambition for contesting …

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Okorocha calls out Ihedioha, ask him to apologise

Immediate past governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha, has demanded that his successor, Emeka Ihedioha, the Commissioner for Justice, Ndukwe Nnawuchi (SAN), and the chairman, Recovery of Moveable Assets, Jasper Ndubuaku, apologise to him. According to Okorocha, the apology is for alleging that he carted away state government’s property …

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Kogi APC guber aspirants reject indirect primary

The All Progressives Congress (APC)  governorship aspirants in Kogi state on Monday opposed the choice of indirect primary by the party. The party had adopted indirect primary to pick its candidate for the November governorship election in Kogi State. The decision was taken at the National Working Committee meeting which …

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Atiku, PDP call Buhari’s critic, Galadima as first witness

The petitioners at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) – the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate in the last presidential election, Atiku Abubakar – have commenced the calling of witnesses at the hearing their petition. The first witness they called is Buba Galadima, a critic of President Muhammadu …

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Senate president Ahmad Lawan meets Tinubu

The president of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan on Sunday evening, July 7, visited the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Recall that Tinubu and other national leaders of the APC unanimously supported Lawan to become the president of the ninth Senate. Earlier this …

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Why Kogi needs feminist as governor – PDP female aspirant

A female gubernatorial aspirant, Princess Iye Grace Adejoh, has explained that Kogi State has found itself in an emergency situation that needed a female person to rescue it, saying that there could be no better time for a female governor than now. Speaking with DAILY POST in Abuja, the aspirant, …

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Supreme Court judgement: Adeleke reacts, wishes Oyetola well

Senator Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reacted to his defeat at the Supreme Court saying he wished Governor Gboyega Oyetola well. While congratulating Oyetola on his victory at the Supreme, Adeleke affirmed that his ambition to be governor of Osun was never a do-or-die affair. In …

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