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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has rejected the inclusion of Justice J.O.K Oyewole as member of the Osun State Governorship Election Appeal Panel. According to the party, Oyewole was a stooge of the National leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and, therefore, an interested party. PDP spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, while briefing newsmen in Abuja said ...

Former Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio representing Akwa Ibom Northwest senatorial district has accused the Independent  Electoral Commission, INEC, of bias. He accused the commission in the state of disobeying court order to allow him access to election materials. The Election Petition Tribunal, headed by its Chairman, Justice W.O Akanbi had on April 2 granted Senator Akpabio, the petitioner ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed optimism that it will win Kogi Governorship election scheduled for Nov. 2. The party expressed the optimism in a communiqué issued at the end of a crucial meeting of critical stakeholders at the Party’s National Secretariat on Wednesday in Abuja. The party leaders, according to the communique, resolved to forego all personal ambitions ...

The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday said it had no hand in the leadership crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in the state. The Assistant Publicity Secretary of APC in the state, Mr Abiodun Salami, made the clarification in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. NAN reports that the ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will not engage the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in argument on petitions before the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal because they are sub-judice. Mr Festus Okoye, National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, INEC, said this in a statement released in Abuja. Okoye was responding to PDP’s allegation that INEC refused ...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) says it is not opposed to its members in the National Assembly consulting with members of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with regards to leadership of the 9th Assembly. A statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Malam Lanre Issa-Onilu, said that such consultations were normal in a democracy. Issa-Onilu said contrary to media reports ...

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has dismissed reports that its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, paid $30,000 to a United States, US, lobby group for the country to recognise him as President-elect. Recall that a popular research group based in the US, Centre for Responsive Politics, CRP had claimed that Abubakar was lobbying the United States government to him as Nigeria’s ...

Mr Dipo Olorunrinu, the lone Peoples Democratic People (PDP) member in the Lagos State House of Assembly says he does not see any reason to approach Election Tribunal over his re-election defeat. Olorunrinu, representing Amuwo-Odofin Constituency I in Lagos Assembly and PDP candidate in March 9 lost the seat to the APC candidate, Mrs Mojisola Alli-Macaulay. Olorunrinu told newsmen on ...

The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Kolawole Taiwo, in the inconclusive Ajeromi/Ifelodun Federal Constituency election in Lagos State, has expressed confidence that he would emerge winner. Taiwo, a former Deputy Speaker of the Lagos Assembly, told newsmen in Lagos on Tuesday that alleged rigging by the opposition led to declaration of the election as inconclusive. The Federal ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has decried the spate of insecurity, particularly the killings, kidnapping, banditry and acts of terrorism in some parts of the country. The party made this known in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan on Tuesday in Abuja. Ologbondiyan said that the party was grieved by the pain, anguish and horror Nigerians ...