The People’s Democratic Party, (PDP), is calling on the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), to halt transmission of what it calls “manipulated results and immediately transmit the authentic elections results from the Polling Units directly to its Server/Website as required by law before continuation of announcement of results”. National Publicity Secretary of the PDP Debo ...

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has won the February 25 presidential election in Osun State. The state’s collation officer for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Folashade Ogunsola, announced the development on Sunday. The former Vice President defeated his closest rivals – Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP), ...

The ruling party in Cross River State, All Progressives Congress, APC, has called for the arrest of the governorship candidate of the main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Sandy Onor, as well as former Assistant Inspector General of Police, Joseph Mbu for allegedly masterminding violence in the state. But in a counter statement, ...

Oladipupo Adebutu has been affirmed as the winner of the Ogun State Governorship Primary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) by a federal high court sitting in Abuja. Justice Inyang Ekwo who presided over the lawsuit filed by Jimi Lawal who had claimed that an invalid delegates list was fraudulently used by the PDP to ...

The Supreme Court on Monday in Abuja ordered that the legal action which arose on the conduct of the primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the nomination of the governorship candidate in Ogun State be retried by the Federal High Court in Abuja. Justice Ibrahim Saulawa in a judgment delivered held that ...

The Osun State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Saturday threatened to report a judge (name not mentioned) to the National Judicial Council. The report it said, would be over the handling of a case instituted by the ex-state chairman of the party, Soji Adagunodo, regarding the post of the party chairman in ...

Former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisa Metuh, has resigned his membership of the party. Metuh who conveyed news of his resignation from the party in a letter addressed to the PDP National Chairman, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, said he’s quitting the party because he no longer wants to participate in ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has refuted allegations of bribery over a N122.4m housing allowance returned by some members of the party’s national working committee. In a statement on Friday, the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Debo Ologunagba, described reports about the money in some sections of the media as “unfounded”. “The NWC has ...

The Supreme Court has struck out a suit instituted against the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP over its refusal to zone the party’s presidential ticket to the southern region of the country. A Presidential aspirant of the PDP and former Deputy Speaker of Abia State House of Assembly, Hon Cosmos Ndukwe instituted the suit against his ...

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state has vowed to remain in the Peoples Democratic Party PDP despite his disagreement with the leadership of the party. The governor stated this during a meeting with PDP stakeholders in Rivers state on Thursday night, September 22. Governor Wike and his supporters have been calling for the resignation of ...

Like others before him, embattled National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, may be another casualty of internal party power play if the push for his removal sails through, writes Emameh Gabriel This is indeed not the best of time for the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, especially for its leadership at ...

The Governor of Rivers state, Nyesom Wike, has denied knowledge of any suit filed by him seeking the removal of Atiku Abubakar as the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 Presidential election. This morning, it was widely reported that Wike and another chieftain of the party, Newgent Ekhamor, filed a ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned the spate of insecurity and the audacity with which terrorists ravage the country unchallenged, under what the party terms a “rudderless” All Progressives Congress (APC) administration. According to the opposition party, the simultaneous terrorist attacks on the advance convoy of President Muhammadu Buhari in Katsina State as well ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has formally challenged the jurisdiction of a Federal High Court, which summoned it to offer explanations on why its May 28 Presidential Primary should be stopped. PDP insisted that the Federal High Court has no jurisdiction over an issue it described as its “pure internal affairs”. In a notice of ...

A lawsuit seeking the removal of Ben Ayade as Cross River Governor has been dismissed by the  Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. Ayade who was elected on the platform of the PDP in 2015 and 2019, but defected to the APC on May 20, 2021, along with his deputy, was dragged to court by ...

Was Justice Inyang Ekwo of Federal High Court, Abuja, right to sack David Umahi and Kelechi Igwe as governor and deputy governor of Ebonyi State respectively? Did he err in law by also making a declaration advertising the seats of 15 lawmakers in the state House of Assembly as vacant? Did he do justice to ...