Peoples Democratic Party Archives - Page 8 of 18

Dec

15

2022

Ibe Okwara Receives Defecting PDP Members at LP Stakeholders’ Meeting In Arochukwu

Abia State, Amos Oge Kalu, Ohafia, Politics2023, Abia State, Ibe Okwara Osonwa, Labour Party, Next Level, Nigeria, Peoples Democratic Party, Politics

The Labour Party candidate for Arochukwu/Ohafia Federal Constituency in the 2023 general election, Honourable Ibe Okwara was in a closed door meeting with stakeholders of the party yesterday in Arochukwu to strengthen the grassroots. This is in line with the Party's efforts at consolidating the revolution sweeping across Nigeria as the only hope of the masses for the desired change where the through meaning of democracy will be of the people, for the people and by the people. A lot of positive plans were discussed as regards party affairs and plans for the upcoming election. The Labour Party family were…

Nov

25

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

Atiku’s camp slams Adamu over BVAS, says APC jittery, technology will expose them

Opinion, Politics2023, Abdullahi Adamu, All Progressives Congress, BVAS, Nigeria, Opinion, Peoples Democratic Party, Politics

The camp of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has slammed the All Progressives Congress, APC, National Chairman, Adamu Abdullahi, over his concerns about using Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) for the 2023 general election. Dele Momodu, the PDP Director of Strategic Communications, said Adamu is jittery over using BVAS in the 2023 elections, adding that the ruling party is afraid that technology would expose them. The APC National Chairman had said Nigeria was not ready to use BVAS using elections. Adamu raised the concern while addressing a Commonwealth delegation on the 2023 general election in Abuja…

Nov

23

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

PDP crisis: Wike alleges plot to kill him for asking Ayu to resign

Opinion, Politics2023, Next Level, Nigeria, Nyesom Wike, Opinion, Peoples Democratic Party, Politics

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has alleged threat to his life over his call that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, should prevail on the party’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu to resign. Wike alleged that they threatened him for insisting that Ayu should resign as the National Chairman of PDP. He disclosed this at the commissioning of the Akpabu-Itu-Umudiogha road in the Emohua Local Government Area of the state yesterday. Wike explained that he is not agitating that Atiku should relinquish his ticket. According to Wike: “When I see some people running around and talking rubbish,…

Nov

13

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

PDP crisis: Atiku’s reconciliation attempt belated – DG VON

Opinion, Politics2023, Atiku Abubakar, Next Level, Nigeria, Opinion, Osita Okechukwu, Peoples Democratic Party, Politics

The Director-General of Voice of Nigeria, Osita Okechukwu, has said that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s move to reconcile with Governor Nyesom Wike’s group in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is belated. Okechukwu said this when he responded to a statement by Atiku that the ruling All Progressives Congress was a contraption of Bola Tinubu’s party, Action Congress of Nigeria, and the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.)’s party, the Congress for Progressive Change, which, according to him, would collapse after its defeat in the 2023 general election, and that he would reconcile with Wike-G-5-Masquerade. In a statement in Abuja…

Nov

12

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

PDP Crisis: G5 Govs. sheath sword, makes new demands

News2023, Atiku Abubakar, Next Level, Nigeria, Nyesom Wike, Okezie Ikpeazu, Peoples Democratic Party, Politics, Samuel Ortom

The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) appears to be over after the leadership of the party reached a truce with the PDP G5 governors. Members of the PDP G5 Governors, led by the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, have been at loggerheads with Atiku, after Wike failed to win the party’s presidential ticket. Other members of the G5 are: Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, Samuel Ortom of Benue State, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State. The G5 were also unhappy that Atiku rejected Wike as running mate and are demanding the…