Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson yesterday won a second term after a tension-soaked election. The election came to a conclusion following the declaration of results of Saturday’s supplementary election results in the troublesome Southern Ijaw Local Government Area and 101 polling units across six local government areas. Dickson of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party has said the continued detention of its National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission since Tuesday without charging him to court shows that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration is dictatorial. The major opposition party noted further that the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government had “disdain for […]
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There was tension in Bayelsa State, Friday, as voters in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area and over 101 polling units across six local councils, prepare to chose between Chief Timipre Sylva and Governor Seriake Dickson on Saturday. Since it started on December 5, the election has been a two-horse race between the former Governor and […]
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THE former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, says the All Progressives Congress spent more than the Peoples Democratic Party which was in power during the last general elections. Fani-Kayode, who was the spokesperson for the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation, said this in a statement on Wednesday while reacting to the probe of some key […]
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The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted bail to the former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Haliru Bello and his son, Abba, to the tune of N600m. Justice Ahmed Mohammed ordered the duo to pay N300million each, as well as produce two sureties each, in like sum. Whereas the […]
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Former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BOT) chair Tony Anenih has explained how he disbursed the N260 million paid into his bank account from the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA). The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) believes the cash came from the allegedly misappropriated $2.1 billion arms funds. Anenih wrote […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded the immediate release of the party’s National Publicity Secretary Olisa Metuh, who was yesterday arrested and detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The party warned that Metuh’s arrest and detention could be the last straw against democracy, saying the party spokesman’s arrest was a grand […]
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The All Progressives Congress, APC has lashed out on the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP over what it calls the unguarded statement and abuses heaped on the party’s leadership and the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, Channels report. In a strongly worded statement from the National Chairman of the party, John Oyegun, the APC warned the […]
Read More PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption crusade has been described as a war between the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress and the major opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party. In a statement issued on Saturday by its National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, the PDP claimed that President Buhari and the APC were using ongoing fight against corruption to […]
Read More Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) national vice chairmen have dissociated themselves from some prominent members indicted in the $2.1 billion arms deal scandal perpetrated under the President Goodluck Jonathan administration. The party chiefs also expressed support for President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption war. A number of PDP chieftains, including former Sokoto State Governor Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa and […]
Read More The Peoples Democratic Party alleged on Thursday that President Muhammadu Buhari’s responses at the Wednesday Presidential Media Chat were not only embarrassing but also further exposed his undemocratic character as an unrepentant tyrant who has no regard for the rule of law and the self-worth of Nigerian citizens. The party, in a statement by its […]
Read More The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the N6.08 trillion budget proposal for 2016 by the Federal Government, may throw the country into severe economic recession, like in the case of Greece. The party said with the proposed N1.8trillion borrowing to fund the budget, the country would be borrowing N5 billion per day from […]
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