Reports have emerged that President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered Ibrahim Idris, the Inspector-General of Police, not to summon Ademola Adeleke, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the Osun gubernatorial election, until after Saturday’s exercise. The police had earlier on Wednesday, asked Adeleke to immediately appear before it at the force headquarters, Abuja, over alleged […]
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Following the resignation of the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the government of President Muhammadu Buhari as the citadel of iniquity. In a statement issued by its national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Saturday, the PDP says Kemi Adeosun, former minister of finance, should be arrested and prosecuted. Adeosun […]
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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Thursday said he would open Nigerian economy to foreign investments to generate income and employment if given the mandate to rule in 2019. Atiku,who is one of the presidential aspirants on the platform of People Democratic Party (PDP), disclosed this while addressing the Kogi state PDP leadership and delegates […]
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Adams Oshiomhole, chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC), says with 15.6 million members nationwide, APC is the largest party in the world. He said this on Wednesday when he presented President Muhammadu Buhari with a new party membership card. Oshiomhole told the president that the APC under his leadership, took advantage of modern technology […]
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A People’s Democratic Party (PDP), presidential aspirant, Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa, has described the method of choosing a political party candidate in any election by consensus arrangement as illegal and anti-democracy and must be condemned. Bafarawa who who made this assertion on Wednesday during a consultation with the Edo State chapter of the party in Benin-City, […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum has condemned the refusal of President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the electoral act (amendment) bill. The forum made the condemnation in a communiqué signed by Ayodele Fayose, its chairman and governor of Ekiti state, after its meeting in in Abuja on Monday. The governors said the president’s decline of […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to hold President Muhammadu Buhari culpable for “violating” provisions of the electoral act. This position is occasioned the donation of presidential nomination form bought for Buhari by a group known as the National Coordinator of Nigeria Consolidation Ambassador Network (NCAN). On […]
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Lai Mohammed, minister of information, says fake news is the only weapon used against a performing government like theirs. The minister said this on Thursday when he visited People’s Daily newspaper in Abuja. Mohammed alleged that respectable media organisations make accusations against the president without backing their claims with evidence. He said the media is […]
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Officers of the Nigeria police force and some supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) clashed at the party headquarters in Abuja on Thursday. The protesters besieged the area as former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar submitted his presidential nomination form. The clash resulted in the officers firing gunshots into the air to disperse the protesters. A […]
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The special adviser to Senate President Bukola Saraki on media, Yusuph Olaniyonu, has wondered what the business of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is with his principal’s aspiration to be president. Yekini Nabena, APC’s acting spokesman, had described the presidential aspiration of Saraki as a joke on Wednesday. But in a statement, Olaniyonu said the […]
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