Atiku Abubakar wins PDP presidential nomination for 2019

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is close to concluding its convention as they have counted the votes cast for each of the candidates as follows: Alhaji Sule Lamido: 96 votes Senator Rabiu Kwankwanso: 158 votes Senator Bukola Saraki: 317 votes Alh Dankwanbo: 111 votes Ahmed makarfi: 74 votes Datti Ahmed: 5 votes Alh Bafarawa 48 votes […]

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Saraki, Secondus, Tambuwal, Lamido other PDP leaders protest Osun guber result in Abuja

Leaders and chieftains of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) among whom are the Senate President, Bukola Saraki; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara; and the National Chairman of the party, Uche Secondus, led other protesters to INEC office after they had earlier converged at the national headquarters of the PDP in Abuja. […]

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PDP blasts Buhari for congratulating Oyetola

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has strongly condemned President Buhari’s congratulatory message to the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the Osun State governorship election, Adegboyega Oyetola. PDP said the congratulatory message sent to the so-called election winner by the President has shown that the Presidency was behind the electoral manipulations, outright rigging and bloodletting that […]

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PDP woos opposition parties to beat APC in Osun rerun

Preparatory for Thursday’s supplementary governorship election in Osun State, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has begun to woo opposition parties against the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), which came second in last Saturday’s election that was declared inconclusive by INEC. PDP candidate, Senator Ademola Adeleke, had polled 254,698 votes to APC’s Gboyega Oyetola, who polled […]

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PDP reaching out to Omisore, others over rerun

Indications have shown in Abuja, Sunday, that the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party might strike a deal with a former Deputy Governor of Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore,  in a bid to win the state rerun governorship election slated for Thursday, according to Sahara Reporters. Omisore is the governorship candidate of the Social […]

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APC lost to PDP in chief Bisi Akande’s polling unit

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has been defeated in the polling unit of its pioneer national chairman, Chief Bisi Akande. According to Premium Times, Mr Akande voted at his Polling Unit 12, Ward 4, Ita Atewogbade, Ila Local Government Area. At the end of counting of votes, the Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate, Ademola […]

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Stella Oduah returns to PDP 3 months after she left

Nigerian senator, Stella Oduah, representing Anambra north, has returned to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In June, Oduah defected to the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), describing the move as “the beginning of a new political chapter”. But in a statement released by her media office on Friday, Oduah said she discovered that APGA’s ideology is a […]

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2019: Is the PDP not just joking?, By Niran Adedokun

Thoughts about Nigerian politics would always wear you out. And that is regardless of whether you are thinking about the politicians or the electorate. In the colony of politicians, the import of the calling itself is largely centred on what the political actors would gain, that is power and possibly money. Elsewhere, politics, even though […]

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Reps Speaker, Dogara picks PDP nomination forms

Speaker, Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, Wednesday, picked the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) expression of interest and nomination forms to bid for a return to the House in 2019. According to Thisday, the speaker, who is the number 4 in the country’s order of protocol, sent one of his trusted aides to pick […]

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PDP offers Femi Otedola Lagos State governorship ticket

Business mogul, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Forte Oil, Mr. Femi Otedola, appears to be delving into an unfamiliar terrain. Who knows, after all his dad was a former governor. Fresh reports indicate that Otedola is set to run for the governorship seat of Lagos state under the Peoples Democratic Party platform. According […]

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PDP leadership meets with presidential aspirants (Details)

National leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), led by its National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, Wednesday night met with its presidential aspirants in Abuja. Other members of the party’s National Working Committee and some members of the Board of Trustees were also in attendance. Presidential aspirants at the meeting were the President of the […]

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PDP challenges Buhari to begin his jailing from Oshiomhole, other indicted persons in his presidency

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said it welcomes President Buhari’s renewed declaration to jail treasury looters but challenges him to show integrity by starting with immediate investigation and prosecution of the factional National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole and a host of other indicted persons in his presidency, who he is currently […]

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Akwa Ibom PDP writes Saraki over Akpabio

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa Ibom State has written to the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, demanding the immediate declaration of Senator Godswill Akpabio’s seat vacant. Senator Akpabio represents Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District at the National Assembly. He resigned as the Senate minority leader, before his recent defection to the All Progressives […]

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PDP candidate wins late husband’s seat in Cross River state by-election

Mrs Abbey Ukpukpen, PDP candidate and widow of a member of the Cross River House of Assembly, Stephen Ukpukpen, has taken over her husband’s seat, following her victory at the Obudu Constituency by-election, held on Saturday August 11. Her husband, Stephen Ukpukpen’s seat was declared vacant after he slumped and died while jogging in the state in […]

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2 brothers of APC, PDP, battle for Katsina North Senatorial seat

Although there are other parties in contention, by the main battleground is set for two brothers to slug it out for the vacant Katsina North senatorial seat. The district, where President Muhammadu Buhari hails from, will be keenly contested by Kabir Babba-Kaita, hoisting the flag of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), and Ahmad Babba-Kaita donning […]

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As Predicted By The PDP, By Akin Osuntokun

Against the background of his long medical emergency sojourn in the United Kingdom, UK, sudden announcements of the like of the departure of a 10-day working leave\medical vacation\technical stop-over (and other fanciful euphemisms) of President Mohammadu Buhari to London has become the trademark of his incumbency. The British government and British airways owe the president […]

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Oshiomhole says PDP looted Nigeria as he welcomes Akpabio; Nigerians react

Adams Oshiomhole, All Progressives Congress,APC, national chairman has described the defection of Godswill Akpabio to the party as uncommon. Oshiomhole, who lambasted the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP for robbing the people for 16 years, asked the people not to be deceived. The former Edo state governor said this during the APC rally at Ikot Ekpene, […]

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