Tag: PDP
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PDP Launches Probe To Know Senators, Reps Who Voted Lawan, Gbajabiamila
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is launching investigation into the role played by its members in the election of leadership of the National Assembly. PDP had adopted Senator Ali Ndume and Hon. Umar Bago as President of the Senate and Speaker of House of Representatives respectively, and directed its members in the National Assembly to…
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Just In: PDP Increases Cost Of Governorship Form From N5m To N20m
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reviewed the party’s cost of nomination forms for governorship position from five million naira to twenty million naira. This comes ahead of the November 16 governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states. According to the party, the increase is as a result of the rising cost of printing and…
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‘Don’t Drag Us Into Your Crisis’, PDP Warns APC
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has cautioned the All Progressives Congress (APC) to focus on what it described as its self-inflicted woes. It also asked the ruling party to stop dragging the name of the PDP into its internal crisis, thereby seeking a face-saving measure. The main opposition party said this in a statement on…
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N’Assembly leadership: PDP NWC meets lawmakers-elect Thursday, Friday
The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party will on Thursday begin a two-day consultation with the party’s members-elect of the ninth National Assembly. The consultation will end on Friday. The PUNCH had on Monday reported exclusively that the party’s leadership would meet with the 44 senators-elect as well as 118 members-elect of the…
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PDP, ADC Attack Buhari As UK Seizes Fresh N82bn Abacha Loot
A bank account containing £211m (approximately N82bn) has been traced to a former Nigerian military dictator, General Sani Abacha. The money was recovered and subsequently confiscated in Jersey, Channel Islands, on the request of the United States of America Government. Late Abacha was said to have laundered the money through the US into the Channel…
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Ondo PDP Appoints Administrative Director of Publicity
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State has appointed Zadok Akintoye as the new Director of Publicity. The appointment takes effect immediately. When asked if he had resigned as the state Publicity Secretary of PDP to pursue his governorship ambition, Hon. Banji Okunomo told our correspondent on phone that he remains the State Publicity…
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PDP NWC Meets This Week To Determine Who To Support Over 9th National Assembly Leadership
The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party will meet in Abuja this week to determine who to support among those aspiring to lead the two chambers of the Ninth National Assembly, The PUNCH learnt on Sunday. Those expected to be at the meeting are members of the party’s National Working Committee led by its…
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Atiku, PDP write Bulkachuwa over delayed tribunal hearing
The legal team of the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, is disturbed by the continued delay in replacing the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, on the five-man panel of the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal. Worried that a replacement had yet to be provided for her on…
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Ondo 2020: Why Zoning Arrangement Cannot Be Ruled Out
By Akinrinlola Olumide Dear PDP members, Zoning arrangement cannot be ruled out as part of the factors that determine how elections are won in Ondo State. Ondo State is different from any other states in Nigeria. Hence, all political parties must operate within the peculiarities cum tradition of the state. The sunshine state is a…
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APC Responsible For High Rate of Suicide In Nigeria, Says PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party on Sunday lamented that the country had been witnessing what it called escalated despondency, depression and misery since the conclusion of the last presidential election. The party urged Nigerians to support one another at this trying time, in order to check the rising social degeneration, particularly suicide. Its position was contained…