Monthly Archives: September 2018

Osun poll: PDP resolves to drag INEC to court, says its candidate should be declared winner

Meanwhile, the PDP has resolved to approach the court to quash the INEC declaration of the election as inconclusive. Speaking through its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan,, it insisted that the polls had already been concluded and results announced in all polling units and collation centers, thus bringing the exercise to its lawful conclusion and removing INEC powers to declare the election ...

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Saraki storms Osun, meets Omisore over plan to defeat APC

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is making frantic efforts in ensuring that Ademola Adeleke, its candidate in Saturday’s Osun State governorship election, wins the rerun scheduled for Thursday. Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation, had said earlier on Monday that Iyiola Omisore, candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), had expressed his willingness to work with Adeleke to ensure ...

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APC shifts date of affirmation of Buhari as Presidential Candidate ‘because of Osun governorship poll’

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has rescheduled its Presidential Primary to Friday, September 28, as against the earlier announced date of Thursday, September  27. Yekini Nabena, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, announced this in a statement on Monday in Abuja. Nabena said the election was rescheduled because of the Osun governorship re-run election fixed for Thursday, September 27, by the ...

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Convention venue tears PDP leaders apart

There are indications that the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have yet to agree on a venue for the party’s Presidential Primary fixed for October 6, following a sharp disagreement between the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT) and the National Working Committee (NWC). The disagreement manifested at the inauguration of the party’s National Convention Planning Committee on Monday ...

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PDP goes to court over Osun governorship poll, demands arrest, prosecution of Fuwape

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is approaching the court to contend the declaration of Saturday’s governorship election in Osun as inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The party disclosed this in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Monday in Abuja. According to Ologbondiyan, the September 22 polls had already been concluded and results announced ...

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APC expels House of Reps Deputy Chief Whip for anti-party activities

The Deputy Chief Whip of the House of Representatives, Pally Iriase, has been expelled from the All Progressives Congress (APC) for alleged anti-party activities. The lawmaker who represents Owan Federal Constituency, was expelled by his ward and ratified by the Local Government. The expulsion letter was signed by Zuberu Shabah and Theophilus Aigboje, Chairman and Secretary respectively, of Owan East ...

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We would have given you our automatic ticket but Lamido is also contesting, Jigawa PDP Chairman tells Mark

PDP Presidential Aspirant and former Senate President, David Mark, said he will support any Aspirant that wins the party’s Presidential Primary scheduled to hold in Port Harcourt, Rivers. Mark stated this on Monday in Dutse, Jigawa capital, when he addressed party supporters. He solicited the support of the party members and urged them to give him their mandate during the ...

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Jonathan backs Mark’s Presidential bid, says Nigeria only existing superficially

Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday threw his weight behind the Presidential ambition of David Mark, saying the former Senate President will strengthen the bond of unity in Nigeria. The former President, who hosted the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Presidential Aspirant in his Yenogoa residence, said Nigeria was in dire need of unity. Jonathan said that it would take a man ...

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Saraki not a threat to Buhari, can only win election in Kwara- Senator Ndume

A Senate member in the National Assembly, Ali Ndume, has dismissed Senate President Bukola Saraki’s presidential ambition, describing it as a pipe dream and “not a threat to President Muhammadu Buhari’s second-term bid”. Saraki, who recently defected from the ruling APC to the main opposition PDP, is aspiring to be the country’s next president in the 2019 general elections. Speaking as ...

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Osun rerun: CDD urges residents not to plunge the state into crises

Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) has called on the people of Osun State to refrain from acts that may plunge the state into crisis following INEC’s declaration of the Saturday’s governorship election inconclusive. The Director of CDD, Idayat Hassan, made the call, on Sunday, in a statement made available to journalists in Abuja. She called on the electorate and ...

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