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BREAKING: INEC declares PDP/Adeleke winner of Osun Governorship election

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the just concluded Osun State governorship election, Senator Ademola Nurudeen Adeleke, winner of the hotly contested election.   INEC Returning Officer, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe declared Senator Adeleke the winner early Sunday morning.   Adeleke defeated his closest rival, the incumbent governor, Mr. Gboyega Oyetola of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC).   The PDP’s candidate secured 403,371 votes defeating Oyetola, who trailed behind with 375,027 votes.   According to the result announced by…

Don’t set Osun on fire, APC campaign council warns PDP

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The Director-General of the Campaign Council of Governor Adegboyega Oyetola’s re-election, Senator Ajibola Bashiru, on Saturday, faulted the claim by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that it has won the election which result is still being collated, describing it’s claim as irresponsible.   In a statement, Senator Bashiru, who noted that the claim by the PDP was capable of setting Osun on fire, warned the party to desist from making frivolous and unsubstantiated claim about an election.   He said: “It has come to our knowledge that the PDP in…

Two Senators resign from APC, PDP, defect to NNPP, Labour Party

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Two Senators from Bauchi and Imo States, have resigned their membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), respectively.   The lawmakers are Senator Dauda Jika representing Bauchi Central and elected on the platform of the APC; and Senator Ezenwa Francis Onyewuchi representing Imo East Senatorial District, who was elected on the platform of the PDP.   Both Senators in separate letters addressed to the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, conveyed their decision to resign their membership of the APC and PDP, to join the Labour Party…

APC loses two Senators to opposition party, PDP … As Abaribe set to resign as Minority Leader Wednesday

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Two prominent members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senate Majority Leader, Yahaya Abdullahi, and Adamu Aliero, have officially defected to the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP). Also to defect formally tomorrow, Wednesday, is the Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, whose defection to the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and exit as Minority Leader was deferred as a result of the inability of the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, to come with his defection and resignation letter to plenary. Although an announcement to that effect was made by Senate President Lawan, it…

2023 : Oyo Deputy Governor dumps PDP for APC

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Oyo State Deputy Governor, Rauf Olaniyan, on Sunday, announced that he had defected to the All Progressives Congress.   The announcement of his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party was made in his private office, Ojoo, Ibadan, while addressing journalists.       His announcement came after weeks of speculations that he was going to leave the party because of the frosty relationship between him and his boss, Governor Seyi Makinde.     There were reports on Thursday that Makinde had dropped Olaniyan as his running mate for the 2023…

As dollars elected, created mannequins at party primaries By Festus Adedayo

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While touring Northern Nigerian provinces in the 1950s to canvass for votes, Ahmadu Bello, the great-great grandson of Uthman dan Fodio and Premier of the Northern region, used to have his flowing robes stuffed with banknotes which he then distributed to the electorate. For the Sardauna, that munificence took the place of campaigning. This was aptly captured by John Meagher, in his ‘The Establishment of Military Government in Nigeria’ of February 16, 1966, with additional information from the National Archives and Research Administration (NARA) in Maryland, USA. So, on May…

Peter Obi, Ekweremadu, Abaribe, et al: How PDP Composed its Obituary in South-East By Law Mefor

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The crisis and haemorrhage rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the South East in particular and across the nation, did not come to many as a surprise. There is nothing happening to the party in that region that I did not predict in my tribute to former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, on his 60th birthday earlier this month of May. It wasn’t even difficult to predict either. The PDP lost its soul long ago and behaves like a man destined for doom, who arrogantly takes…

2023: PDP ready for National Convention – Mark

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The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Convention Organizing Committee (NCOC), Senator David Mark has assured that arrangements had been made for a hitch free exercise on Saturday 28th May ,2022   Addressing members of the committee of the Convention in Abuja ahead of the programme, Senator Mark assured that the exercise will be smooth and transparent.   He told members of the committee to brace up to the challenges to ensure a credible exercise, saying “you must be absolutely transparent.   “If you have any interest or…

Coalition lauds Peter Obi for dumping PDP

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Coalition for Peter Obi’s presidential aspiration on Wednesday hailed the former governor of Anambra state for listening to their request to dump the Peoples Democratic Party saying the PDP has automatically lost about 15 million votes with the development. The groups in a statement issued after the official announcement of Peter Obi’s defection from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) urged the former governor of Anambra state to form alliance with credible Nigerians and run for President in 2023. The group added that Peter Obi as a decent man would not play…

Tension in PDP,as S/East stalwarts, Obi, Abaribe, Ekweremadu, others, resign dump party

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Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, frontline Presidential aspirant and former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, and former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu.   Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, frontline presidential aspirant and former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, and former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu   There is palpable tension in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as party stalwarts in the South East region have resolved to resign from the party en masse.   Those that have, so far tendered their resignation…