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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reacted to the Supreme Court judgment that sacked the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa state, David Lyon and his deputy, Senator Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo. PDP National Vice Chairman (South-South), … Read more...

Ben Ozirim, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, says lawmakers who defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Imo House of Assembly would lose their seats. Ozirim, former PDP publicity secretary in the state, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, …...

The wife of Emeka Ihedioha, the former governor of Imo State, Ebere Ihedioha, has reacted after her husband was sacked as Imo State governor, by the Supreme court. … Read more via Nigeria News | Laila’s Blog – https://ift.tt/2Rno1lp Get More Nigeria Political News

It would be recalled that the Supreme Court on Tuesday sacked Chief Emeka Ihedioha of the Peoples Democratic Party. The Ndigbo Unity Forum (NUF), a pan-Igbo socio-political group, has urged residents of Imo State to accept the Supreme Court judgment, which declared Sen. Hope Uzodinma as the...

Buba Galadima, a former presidential campaign spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has admitted working for Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso against President Muhammadu Buhari during the presidential primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2015. Speaking with Daily Independent...

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the immediate investigation into the cause of the murder of Mrs Achejuh Abuh, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s murder Kogi state following the just concluded governorship election. He said the evildoers behind the act must be made to face the wrath of...

Former Delta State governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan’s hope of representing Delta South in the Nigerian Senate might have been rekindled, following the nullification of the election of Senator James Manager by the National Assembly … Read more via Thisdaylive – https://ift.tt/2N3dQCC Get More...

Mr Femi Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and human rights advocates discusses the right to protest, dissidence and revolution in Nigeria in this interview. He reminds Nigerians about how the Jonathan administration once arrested some APC leaders for staging a protest and holding them under...

For twenty uninterrupted years now, the longest in the political history of Nigeria, the nation has enjoyed democracy as an acceptable governance system. For 16 years, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, ruled the roost at the centre, … Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2M0UrAX...

DELTANS have never been more apprehensive of their political future like they felt before the 2019 governorship election. This feeling was occasioned by not only the threats from the All Progressives Congress, APC, chairman, Adams Oshomiole, on the need to colonise Delta State but … Read...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared President Muhammadu Buhari, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of the 2019 presidential election, held on Saturday Feb. 23. The spokesperson for the Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign Organisation, Mr Osita...

Following the opposition of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) ban on electioneering during the one week extension … Read more via Thisdaylive – http://bit.ly/2Gtimr3 Get More Nigeria...

Presidential Candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), Kingsley Moghalu, has urged Nigerians to reject the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the upcoming elections. Moghalu accused the two parties of “tribalism and ethnic irredentism,” noting …...

Nineteen out of the 27 lawmakers of the Imo State House of Assembly have joined Action Alliance (AA), denouncing their memberships of the All Progressives Congress and Peoples Democratic Party respectively. The Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Acho Ihim, who read the notice of defection...

After former Vice President Atiku Abubakar emerged as the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party at the Port Harcourt convention in October, the party said it looked forward to an issues-based campaign and challenged the ruling All Progressives Congress to roll up its sleeves...

Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Omu-Aran, Kwara State, Philip Adeyemo, has said that Nigeria is yet to be led by a politician who is qualified to fight corruption in the country. The Bishop made the observation at the third session of the third synod of the diocese held at Cathedral Church...

Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby is in Nigeria, and on Saturday, he met with President Muhammadu Buhari and PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar separately in Abuja. Welby met Buhari at the event organised by the Interfaith Initiative for Peace (IIP) and later at the State House...

The possibility of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) settling for a replacement for Vice President Yemi Osinbajo from the Southeast and intrigues by politicians jostling to be chosen are some of the reasons the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) … Read more via The Guardian Nigeria...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) saturday accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of being in an unholy alliance with the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) to rig the 2019 elections. In a swift reaction, however, the … Read more via Thisdaylive –...

The Governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari, and his counterpart Abubakar Badaru of Jigawa State, on Wednesday received several decampees from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Jigawa. Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2L9fVYR -- Get More Nigeria...