Former Enugu State governor, Dr Chimaroke Nnamani has written the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rejecting his expulsion from the party. In a letter addressed to the National Working Committee (NWC), his lawyer, Olusegun Jolaowo, the Enugu East senator said the NWC has no powers to suspend or expel him from the party. He said the committee did not follow due …

The Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the party’s Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) in the state on Friday launched into a war of words after the PCC Director-General, Dr Abiye Sekibo said he escaped an attempt on his life by those he described as agents of the state government. Sekibo, a former Minister of Transport, told …

Founding National Secretary of the Alliance for Democracy (AD), Udenta O. Udenta is a Professor of Cultural Studies and a Distinguished Fellow at the Abuja School of Social and Political Thought. Prof. Udenta, who was in detention six times during the dictatorship of General Sani Abacha, was the Director of Media and Strategy of the Eastern Mandate Union, and a …

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday restrained the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from suspending or expelling the Governor of Rivers, Nyesom Wike, from the party. Justice James Omotosho made the order following an ex-parte motion filed by Wike against the PDP and its top officials. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Wike, in the motion marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/139/2023, …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described as evil, the allegations that some individuals at the Presidency were plotting to install an interim government at the expiration of the tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari. There have been allegations that elements in high places were responsible for the current fuel and Naira scarcity in the country in their bid to cause …

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Senator Chimaroke Nnamani on Sunday justified his preference for the presidential standard bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. The former Enugu State governor said that his party breached the North-South power rotation principle provided for in its constitution by fielding Alhaji Abubakar Atiku as its presidential candidate for the 25 February poll. …

The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Sunday asked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to desist from attacking President Muhammadu Buhari in their campaign rallies. He stressed that the main opposition party’s slanders lacked merit and that the President is unaffected by them. Former Enugu State Governor. Senator Chimaroke Nnamani also added that the constant …

The presidential campaign council of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised concern about alleged plan by the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to launch a “wave of fake news especially in Hausa language” intended to “malign, defame and delegitimise” its candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the APC. According a statement on Sunday by the campaign …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abia State has fixed Saturday, 4 February for its gubernatorial primary election. This arrangement comes on the heels of the death of Prof. Eleazar Uchenna Ikonne, who was the party’s governorship candidate. Ikonne died on Wednesday at the National Hospital Abuja after a protracted illness. In a statement by the PDP on Friday, the …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has suspended some chieftains of the party in Ekiti, Enugu and Imo States over allegations of anti-party activities. A statement on Friday night by the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Barrister Debo Ologunagba stated that the party members from Ekiti State, who were affected by the decision of the National Working Committee (NWC) are Jennifer Emiola, …