The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged Kaduna State Governor, Senator Uba Sani to stop interfering with Senator Lawal Adamu Usman’s developmental projects in the state. The Senior Special Assistant on Media And Communications to the PDP National Chairman, Yusuf Dingyadi said in Kaduna that the Senator has made significant contributions to the state, including providing portable water, human empowerment, …

As Osun State conducted local government council elections across the state, low turnout of voters, as well as absence of security operatives in polling units highlighted the exercise. Although some wards and polling units witnessed a large turnout of voters, majority of the units where voting took place recorded low turnout compared to the last governorship election in the state. …

A member of the National Executive Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Diran Odeyemi, and a chieftain of the Labour Party (LP), Anslem Eragbe, have warned former Vice President Atiku Abubakar against contesting the 2027 presidential election. Both Odeyemi and Eragbe said the South should be allowed to rule for eight years. They said the 2027 southern president might …

Former Special Adviser on Education to Osun State Governor, Mr. Jamiu Olawumi, on Saturday, urged people to be wary of footage circulating on social media showing voters participating in the local government poll in the state. The claim was however countered by the Director of Media of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Mr. Oladele Bamiji, who insisted …

The All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have traded accusations over escalating violence in Osun State, which culminated in the killing of a former chairman of Irewole Local Government Area, Mr. Aderemi Abbas, and six others on Monday. The crisis was triggered by a contentious Court of Appeal ruling allegedly reinstating APC-elected local government chairmen and …

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), were yesterday locked in a war of words over the crisis in the former. The national leadership of PDP had alleged a desperate bid by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), to destroy the party in order to entrench totalitarianism but APC blamed the crisis in the leading opposition …

The PDP South-South Zonal Executive Committee has suspended its Zonal Secretary, Chief Felix Omemu, for one month over alleged misconduct and unauthorised media statements discrediting the ZEC meeting held in Benin on Saturday. Omemu had earlier issued a statement in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State declaring the meeting convened by the party’s South-South Vice Chairman, Chief Dan Orbih, as illegal. He argued …

The worst possible outcome of the 2023 presidential election would have been an Atiku Abubakar victory. That would have established such a bad and dangerous precedent, causing serious damage to Nigeria’s unity and worsening the country’s already problematic management of diversity. Atiku ran for the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on the basis that only a Northern …

Protests has trailed the nomination of a new chairman and commissioners for the Niger State Independent Electoral Commission (NSIEC). Following the announcement on Wednesday, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) kicked, saying that the nominees remained card-carrying members of the ruling party. Governor Mohammed Bago announced the nomination in a bulletin released by his Special Adviser on Digital Media and Strategy, …

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has dismissed the purported suspension of the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Senator Adolphus Wabara, describing it as illegal. In a statement on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, the Party faulted the suspension, stating that it violated the PDP Constitution (as amended in 2017) and …