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Senator Ibikunle Amosun Let me state from the outset that the specific objective of this article is to engage the power elite in Western Nigeria, the most developed region in Nigeria, on why they do not need a federal Development Commission at this time to develop their region. It is also not to berate the southwest federal legislators who have sponsored the South West Development Commission Bill (2019) now being debated in Abuja. I just would like us to ‘calm down’ and reason together with...

PDP Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the PDP would have to stem its internal squabbles and wave of crises rocking its state chapters. The Kano, Adamawa, Nasarawa, Lagos, Ogun, Osun, Ekiti, Niger, Plateau, Cross River, Ebonyi and Edo chapters of the party are entangled in intense crises as party stalwarts have continued to battle over the control of structures in their states. Plateau, Osun, Ekiti and Ebonyi chapters are already enmeshed in litigations over who would control the party. Apart...

By Dapo Akinrefon Former Deputy National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olabode George, yesterday, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to revisit the recommendations of the 2014 National Conference, saying it will address the problems confronting the country. George, in a statement titled: ‘A New Year, A New Beginning’, the PDP leader said addressing the challenges facing the country is more important than the 2023 presidential election. The statement reads: “The...

Kwara youth professionals, KEL mobilise members to take over governance. On By Demola Akinyemi, Ilorin Some youths, comprising of young professionals in Kwara state under the aegis of Kwara Emerging Leaders(KEL) who claim to have the capacity and competence have begun aggressive move to take over the leadership of the state in the very nearest future. The convener, Mr Seun Awogbenle flanked by other members of the executives among the teaming members at a press conference in Ilorin yesterday s...

Makinde, Fayose feud tears South-West PDP chairmen, top chieftains apart Our Correspondents The feud between Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, and a former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, over the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party in the South-West has caused division among the state chairmen and other top party chieftains in the region. Fayose and Makinde have reportedly been at loggerheads over the latter’s role in the Ekiti PDP crisis as well as the leadership of the part...

Share Last week, the Prince UcheSecondus-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) marked its third year in office. LEON USIGBE assesses its standing and ongoing intrigues in the main opposition party in the buildup to the next political dispensation. PRINCE Uche Secondus was a child of crisis from the day he emerged as the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2017. He was not the favoured candidate by virtue of his South-South origin. That...

The chairman however dismissed the suspension. Our correspondent reports that the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party may soon intervene in the crisis. Daily Trust learnt that trouble started for the embattled chairman when he was at a forum in Lagos where Fayose called for the retirement of elders in the party, including the former Deputy National Chairman, Chief Olabode George. Sources said chieftains of the party loyal to George were exasperated that Doherty could sit at a forum wh...

The recent defection of Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State from the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised fresh concerns over who succeeds President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023 and indeed the zoning of presidential power in Nigeria. Giving reasons for his defection, Mr Umahi claimedthe PDP was not planning to pick its 2023 presidential candidate from the Southeast, which has yet to produce a president since democracy was restored in the country in 1999...

By Professor Akitoye-Rhodes In a desperate, vicious piece of journalistic trash, one Ayobami Olu-Peters , apparently working for his not so veiled masters, cooked up all kinds of childish, unverifiable balderdash in a failed attempt to rub odium on the person of Chief Olabode George. From the title which will not be dignified with a mention here to the body of the story itself, the whole untidy, illogical scribble dreams of yellow, crude and unpolished hack job.   Olu-Peters’ work is not jou...