Tag: defection
Saraki, Tambuwal, Ortom defect to PDP next week
All is set for the Senate President Bukola Saraki and three governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to decamp…
PDP reps protest, stage walk-out over member defection
Members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the House of Representatives have walked out of plenary over the defection…
Defections: APC Can Withstand Any Plot To Undermine It From Within
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun in an interactive session with journalists at the…
Rivers State: Wike Campaign group hit by fresh defections
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Chairman, Security Committee of Wike’s New Rivers Vision Campaign Organisation, Brigadier-General Elton David Amah, has decamped…
Lawmaker cautions colleagues against indiscriminate defection
A re-elected member of the House of Representatives, Mr Leo Ogor (Delta-PDP), has cautioned his colleagues against indiscriminate defection to…
Yaro, ex-PDP chairman, Uba Sani, others dump PDP for APC
Former secretary to the Kaduna state government, Lawal Ismaila Yakawada, former Kaduna People’s Democratic Party, PDP Chairman, Makama Yaro, and…
Tambuwal’s Defection And The Desecration Of Govt Institution
By Gboyega Akosile I have tried in vain to refrain from commenting on the current political activities in the country…
2 APC govs, assembly members to defect to PDP – Metuh
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday in Abuja said that more members of the All Progress Congress (APC) were…
Defection to PDP is for national interest – Sheriff
A former governor of Borno, Ali Modu Sheriff, on Friday said that his decision to defect from APC to the…
Oshiomhole, APC scared over defection – PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) claims that Adams Oshiomhole, governor of Edo State and main opposition party, All Progressives Congress…
PDP woos former APC members in Edo
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo on Sunday called on leading politicians who recently dumped All Progressives Congress (APC)…
Ex- governorship candidate dumps APC for PDP
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Candidate of the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) in the 2012 governorship election in Edo State, Solomon…
APC: Judge Did Not Order 37 Lawmakers To Vacate Seats
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has said Justice Adeniyi Ademola did not order the 37 members of the House of…
Aggrieved APC members join Labour Party
Some aggrieved members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State are set to defect to the Labour Party,…
Belgore, ACN ex-governorship candidate joins PDP
Stephen Oni/ Ilorin Mohammed Dele Belgore, governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria in the central Nigerian state of…
Nigeria’s defecting senators slip through Mark’s blockade
Proceedings were held up in the Senate for about one hour on Tuesday as five Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Senators…
Jonathan receives Bafarawa into PDP, pledges better country
President Goodluck Jonathan has said that PDP will work to lead Nigeria to greatness. He spoke in Sokoto on Saturday…
Jonathan to attend Bafarawa’s defection to PDP
President Goodluck Jonathan is expected to formally receive former governor of Sokoto state, Attahiru Bafarawa to the Peoples Democratic Party…
Atiku: Why I dumped PDP (Full statement)
PRESS RELEASE for immediate release Abuja, 2nd February, 2014 AFTER CONSULTATION, IT IS TIME TO MOVE TO APC. LET THE…
Ex-Nigerian Vice-president, Atiku quits ruling party
Former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar on Sunday defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Nigeria’s ruling party since…
I am comfortable in APC, says defected reps member
A member of the House of Representatives, Suleiman Kwande, on Friday in Abuja said that he consulted with his constituents,…
Edo PDP Chairman loses Councillor to APC
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State suffered a major setback Sunday as its only Councillor, Mr Peter Akhugie,…
Sokoto APC attracts more big guns
Two governorship candidates in the 2011 elections in the northern Nigerian state of Sokoto , Alhaji Abubakar Yabo and Alhaji…
PDP women’s leader joins APC
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta The former Women’s Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP in Western Nigeria,Otunba Iyabo Odunmolorun Omotayo has defected with…
3 PDP members in Zamfara Assembly defect to APC
.say they quit PDP because it was heading to self-destruction Three members of northern Nigeria state of Zamfara House of…
PDP fumes over defection of members to APC
The ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP is fuming over the defection of 37 members of House of Representatives elected on…
Sule Lamido has not left PDP, say aides
Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa state has dissociated himself from the merger of the PDP group, led by Abubakar Baraje…
Senator Borrofice’s seat can’t be deemed vacant, says ACN
The Action Congressof Nigeria, ACN, has warned of surreptitious moves by the leadership of the Senate and by extension, the…
Pressure mounts on Syria’s Assad to go
International leaders Friday urged the UN to ratchet up pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by threatening tough sanctions, as…
Reactions Trail Ladoja’s Defection To Accord Party
By Gbenro Adesina/Ibadan Reactions have started trailing the defection of the former Governor of Oyo State, Senator Rasheed Adewolu Ladoja…