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 …

The Edo State Caretaker Committee Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Tony Aziegbemi has given reasons why the party is confident of victory at the ongoing Governorship Election Petition Tribunal. On Arise News on Monday night, Aziegbemi said that the petition presented by the party, challenging the declaration of Senator Monday Okpebholo as winner of the 21 September …

Senator Ned Nwoko has said he left the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) because he had trouble working with Governor Sheriff Oborevwori and ex-governor Ifeanyi Okowa. Nwoko officially announced his defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC) on 31 January. The Delta North lawmaker cited deep divisions and factionalisation within the PDP as the primary reasons for his decision to leave …

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)  has described the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a political platform that is gradually going into extinction amid its perennial leadership crisis. APC urged Nigerians to ensure that the PDP did not return to power following the alleged rot it left behind after ruling the country for 16 years The appeal was made …

A fight has broken out at the headquarters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abuja, where a meeting of the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT) is taking place. The altercation began when a party chieftain, Sunday Ude-Okoye, was denied access to the meeting. Acting National Chairman of the party, Ambassador Umar Damagum is presiding over the meeting. Early callers …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State has criticised Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa over the recently signed 2025 state budget, labelling it a “budget of looting” due to what it described as wasteful and dubious allocations. Governor Aiyedatiwa signed the N698.6 billion budget into law a week after its passage by the state House of Assembly. The budget allocates N265.04 …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State has said that it has uncovered a plan to unleash armed thugs, disguised in the party’s branded attire, who would carry out sporadic shootings in the state with the intent to cause chaos and crisis. In a statement on Monday in Benin City, the state capital, the Publicity Secretary of PDP Caretaker …