Two of Nigeria’s opposition parties, the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and the All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP) agreed Saturday to merge into an electoral behemoth, the All Progressives Congress(APC), which they vowed would defeat President Goodluck Jonathan and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in 2015 polls. The two parties approved the move in separate [...]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Anambra Chapter, has pledged to provide a level playing ground ahead of the governorship election scheduled for January 2014. The state chairman of the party, Mr Kenneth Emeakayi, made the pledge in Awka while receiving the report of the Harmonisation and Reconciliation Committee. The committee was set up by the [...]
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt After keeping mum since the executives of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State, were swept away by a disputed court order, Governor Chibuike Amaechi, has threatened to expose all his traducers. He said by the time he revealed their true identity, people will realise why they should be prepared to [...]
The Lagos State House of Assembly has warned the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against making inciting statements that could best be described as an attempt to witch-hunt the administration of Governor Babatunde Fashola. The House made this point while condemning the call by the Lagos State Chairman of the PDP, Chief Tunji Shelle, on the [...]
Nigeria’s leading opposition party, the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, latest salvo against President Goodluck Jonathan, accusing him of sliding into dictatorship has drawn an equally combative and virulent response from presidential aides, accusing the ACN, instead, of being the abode of despots. “The paradox is that those who do not allow freedom and equality [...]
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has slammed the PDP for seeking to disparage and distract Gov. Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, at a time the party (PDP) itself is in dire need of attention to prevent it from imploding. In a statement issued in Lagos on Friday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai [...]
The PDP in Edo State on Thursday urged the Nigerian central Government to withdraw the national honour, Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON), bestowed on Governor Adams Oshiomhole. Mr Dan Orbih, the Chairman of Edo PDP, said in Abuja that the call became necessary following the governor’s interference in the recent local government [...]
