Tag Archives: PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of attending the 74th United Nations General Assembly in New York, United States aimlessly, without meaningful objective. The party, in a statement it released said President Buhari was going without capacity to meet with other world leaders that would be present at the UNGA. PDP said, “President Muhammadu Buhari is going ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Saturday told President Muhammadu Buhari to accept the alleged bitter truth over the statements made by the United Nations, UN, Rapporteur, saying various forms of insecurity have escalated under his administration. It also told Buhari to seek for help, alleging that the Buhari administration has no solution to the alleged festering problems in the ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has disowned the former senator representing Bayelsa East Senatorial District, Sen. Nimi Amange, following his defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC) recently. Amange was a PDP senator from 2007 to 2011 and represented former President Goodluck Jonathan’s constituency. But reacting to Amange’s defection in a statement issued in Yenagoa, the state Chairman of PDP, ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) not to allow violence to disrupt the November 16 governorship election in Kogi State. It called on the electoral umpire to issue a “direct warning” to Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to desist from any act of violence before, during and ...

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it has not received any report from the committee set up to intervene on the House of Representatives minority leadership tussle. The party in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja on Thursday said it had yet to take any position on ...

The Peoples Democratic Party in Edo State has says the National and State Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Benin City is frustrating its right of appeal in the judgment delivered in the petition filed by Hon Omosede Igbinedion against the election of Hon Dennis Idahosa In the judgment, the three-man panel had dismissed Omosede’s petition for lack of merit. ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it is making concerted efforts to ensure that all aggrieved members in Kogi and Bayelsa are appeased before the states’ elections. The party, in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja said it would ensure that the elections were faced as a big family. Ologbondiyan said that PDP ...

Former Women Affairs Minister Aisha Alhassan, who was defeated in the 2019 governorship election in Taraba State, has disclosed that she has perfected arrangements to return to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Hajia Alhassan was the governorship standard bearer of the United Democratic Party (UDP) in the 2019 elections in which she scored only 14, 651 votes. She joined the ...

The House of Assembly Elections Petition Tribunal sitting in Ibadan has upheld the elections of two People’s Democratic Party (PDP) parliamentary members in Oyo State. The three-man tribunal led by Justice D.M Igyuse upheld the elections of Hon Olasunkanmi Babalola (PDP-Egbeda State Constituency) and Hon. Akeem Adeshina (PDP- Iwajowa State Constituency). The duo were dragged before the tribunal by their ...

Ten PDP governorship aspirants, who lost the bid for the party’s ticket to contest the Nov. 16 Kogi governorship race, have declared their support for the winner, Mr Musa Wada. The 10 aspirants, under the aegis of Kogi PDP 2019 G-12, declared their support for Wada at a press briefing held at the party secretariat on Friday in Abuja. The ...