****urge security agencies to investigate opposition’s role in insecurity The Kebbi APC Youth Forum has condemned the Zamfara State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for sabotaging the ongoing rescue of 24 female students kidnapped from Government Comprehensive Secondary School, Maga, inthe Talata-Mafara area of Kebbi state. The youths, in a statement signed by…
In a landmark move to restore unity, discipline, and focus ahead of the 2027 general elections, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at its ongoing 2025 National Convention in Ibadan, Oyo State, has expelled high-profile members Nyesom Wike, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, Kamaldeen Ajibade (SAN), former Governor Ayo Fayose, Hon. Austin Nwachukwu, and several others. The decision…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced Governor Chukwuma Soludo as the winner of the November 8 governorship election in Anambra State. Returning Officer and Vice Chancellor of the University of Benin, Prof. Edogah Omoregie, made the declaration at the commission’s headquarters in Awka on Sunday. The incumbent governor, who contested on the platform…
There was a mild drama at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, on Tuesday, when Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan confronted officials of the Nigerian Immigration Service who seized her passport. The lawmaker, who went live on social media, revealed that she was travelling abroad after rounding off ceremony for her second year in office. Last week, the…
A High Court in Oyo State has directed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its acting national chairman, Umar Damagum, to proceed with the party’s national convention scheduled for November 15 in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. The order was issued on Monday by Justice A.L. Akintola, following an ex parte application filed by Folahan…
Supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Working Committee (NWC), led by National Chairman Ambassador Iliya Damagum, have condemned the recent wave of defections by some elected officials, describing the development as destabilising and harmful to party unity. They also criticised what they termed “dubious and predictable” court judgments, saying such rulings have…
If politics were to be built up into flesh and bone, one that is fashioned into an individual who could speak, legislate, joke around, and empathise— it would be difficult not to imagine Rt. Hon. (Dr.) James Abiodun Faleke as the first thought of such personification. Different from the usual politics of personal enrichment, Faleke’s…
The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has suspended the National Legal Adviser, Kamaldeen Ajibade (SAN); National Secretary, Senator Samuel Anyanwu; Deputy Legal Adviser, Okechukwu Osuoha; and National Organising Secretary, Umaru Bature, for one month following a court ruling that halted the party’s planned national convention. Disclosing this while addressing journalists, the PDP…
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has sacked a member of the House of Representatives, Abubakar Gummi, following his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The court, in a judgment delivered by Justice Obiora Egwuatu, ordered the lawmaker who represents Gummi/Bukkuyum Federal Constituency…
Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State is reportedly preparing to meet with President Bola Tinubu today, fearing the loss of his re-election bid due to a mass defection of key Peoples Democratic Party members. On Tuesday, he lost another PDP state House of Assembly member, Hon. Maharazu Salisu (representing Maradun II, also known locally as…
