The National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Samuel Anyanwu, has petitioned security agencies, alerting them of a threat to peace and security. In the petition dated 1st February 2025, which was addressed to the Department of State Security (DSS), the National Security and Civil Defence Corps, and the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal, Anyanwu accused the …

The uneasy calm within the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) reached its height at the weekend as 11 out of the 17 members of the party leadership disowned the Acting National Chairman, Ambassador Umar Damagum, and the embattled National Secretary, Senator Samuel Anyanwu. The fresh crisis is as a result of the legal representation for …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) faction led by Bauchi Governor Bala Mohammed has filed a suit seeking for an exparte order to hold the party’s National Executive Council (NEC) meeting. The suit was filed at the Zamfara High Court. Justice Salim Ibrahim will hear the exparte motion in Gusau The group wants to ignore Federal High Court Abuja order barring …

Former Governor of Ondo State, Dr Olusegun Mimiko has distanced himself from membership of the 2023 presidential campaign council of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), reaffirming his position that the party must embrace regional equity. Mimiko has aligned with the group, led by Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, which has been battling the PDP for having both its National Chairman, …

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has said that the sins of the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are so grievous that if they are disclosed his children would disown him. “If people know what we know, if we release what we have, Ayu’s children will go to him and say we are no longer your children”, Wike …

This Wednesday, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, governor of the oil-and-gas-endowed Rivers State, wrote his name in the annals of Nigerian politics and governance. If indeed there was a Nigerian equivalent of the Guinness Book of Records, Wike’s appointment with one stroke of the pen of 28,000 Special Assistants, would qualify as a record-breaking entry. The previous day, Wike appointed 319 Ward …

The campaign by a group within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to have Dr Iyorchia Ayu removed as national chairman might have suffered another blow. Following the vociferous agitation against Ayu by the group led by Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, the PDP National Working Committee last month passed a vote-of-confidence on the embattled national chairman, while several leaders defended …

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Iyorchia Ayu has defended the controversial N100 million housing allowance, which many members of the National Working Committee (NWC) returned to the coffers of the party last week. While the members, who took the action said they did not know the purpose of the fund, the PDP National Publicity Secretary, …

Efforts by the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to resolve the issues between the party leadership and the group of Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike have not yielded desired result. The meeting on ended inconclusively. Wike and his supporters, among whom are Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State and his Benue State counterpart, are demanding …

When the row between Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, and his party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) spilled onto the streets after the party’s presidential primaries in May, I argued that to solve Wike, one had to first fix the candidate, Atiku Abubakar. In light of Wike’s no-holds-barred interview last Thursday, things may have fallen apart, irretrievably. That interview, perhaps …