OWAN EAST PDP: A Party Of Familiar Strangers.
Dear indigenous people of Owan East, let me help in putting your puzzles and unnecessary end to end running to their well deserving rest.I have listened to the kool and the gang of the Owan East chapter of the fast decomposing peoples Democratic Party.Before my emergence as APC publicity secretary,I have seen the high drama of those who own the party and those who own the power, every critically conscious individual will rather remain apolitical than to associate with such a dastardly and behemoth arrangement where rat race, seriatim betra…
PDP: I’ve no hand in Secondus’ ordeal- Atiku
As chairman meets aggrieved party officers, appeals for calm By Dirisu Yakubu Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar yesterday (Tuesday) dismissed speculations that his recent meeting with Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state in Port Harcourt fuelled calls for the removal of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, national chairman, Prince Uche Secondus. Atiku who stated this through his media adviser, Paul Ibe said he is only interested in peace and stability of the PDP, and not what will endanger the interest of the party. “It is a b…
Money, court ‘shopping’ in Anambra Gubernatorial politics
The journey to the off-season governorship election in Anambra State exposes the three peculiar elements that make elections in the state very intriguing and exasperating. Affluence, influence, and godfathering constitute the underlying factors that propel gubernatorial contests in the state. Anambra fell out of the national general elections loop in 2006, when Mr. Peter Obi of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), went through the courts to retrieve his mandate from Dr. Chris Nwabueze Ngige and his then Peoples Democratic Party (P…
Tension in PDP as governors, Secondus, NWC squabble
All is not well in the camp of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the misunderstanding between the party’s national chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, and his chief sponsor, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, gets messier. Wike wants Secondus sacked as soon as possible, party sources said on Saturday. Observers see the misunderstanding as a big threat to the party’s plan to wrest power from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2023. Sources also confirmed that the development is creating anxiety within the party a…
NCC lied, Nigeria is ripe for electronic transmission of results, INEC insists
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said contrary to claims by the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC), there is enough network coverage across the country to guarantee electronic transmission of election results in 2023. Besides, INEC revealed that NCC was aware since 2018 that the Commission has the capacity and capability to transmit results electronically. INEC’s Director of Publicity and Voter Education, Nick Dazang, gave this disclaimer, yesterday, during an interview on African Independent Television (AIT) bre…
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