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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State has denied allegations by Governor Dapo Abiodun-led government that it sponsored a violent protest that rocked Sagamu town on Monday. Youths protesting the scarcity of the new naira notes went on a rampage yesterday, setting ablaze banks and carting away the maze …

LESS than one week to the presidential and National Assembly elections, the G-5 governors led by Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State have failed to adopt a presidential candidate, Sunday PUNCH has learnt. Wike, Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, and their counterparts from Abia, Enugu and Oyo states; Governors Okezie Ikpeazu, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi …

Ahead of the general elections, Young Progressives Party, YPP, in Plateau State has collapsed its structures into the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The YPP, subsequently said it will support PDP candidates at all levels in the upcoming general elections. Chairman of the PDP in Plateau state, Chris Hassan, received the …

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expelled former governor of Enugu State, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani and 6 others over alleged anti-party activities. Recall that Senator Nnamani was last month suspended by the party. The PDP NWC at the end of its 566th meeting disclosed …

An attack on the residence of a stalwart of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Gombe State, Alhaji Salisu Abdulaziz, on Saturday night, left five people injured. Abdulaziz had convened a meeting in his residence in the Jekadafari area of Gombe metropolis when thugs invaded and dispersed the gathering. While …

Tension is high in Taraba State as members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, await Supreme Court judgement on the party’s guber candidate. Newsextra24 learnt that the judgement will be delivered today, Friday. This is coming a few days after the same court nullified the governorship primary election conducted by …

After months of uncertainty over what the Dr. Iyorchia Ayu-led National Working Committee intends to do with recalcitrant party members aligned with Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and four of his colleagues, the party may have decided to begin a crackdown. Wike and his G5 colleagues-Samuel Ortom (Benue), Okezie …

REACTIONS have continued to trail the lingering fuel crisis across the nation as Nigerians struggle to get fuel at exorbitant rates. With no end in sight to the crisis, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) House of Representatives candidate in Abeokuta South, Ogun State, Toyin Amuzu expressed worries over the fate …

THE Kaduna South senatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Barr Sunday Marshall Katung, has said the current insecurity in Southern Kaduna is threatening sustainable food production in the region. Katung stated this in Zonkwa, Zangon Kataf local government area of the state at a meeting with representatives of …

Thousands of people in Adamawa State have defected from the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Some of the former NNPP members who matched through some streets of the state capital, Yola, on Friday were seen wearing Kwakwassiya caps, made popular by the NNPP national …