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Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has set up an 11-man advisory committee to fully resolve party matters ahead of the 2023 general

The former Senate President Bukola Saraki-led Reconciliation Committee of PDP has reconciled warring chieftains of the party in Lagos State.

“Lagos state PDP is bleeding and we believe you will lead us right and get us out of this bondage."

It would be recalled that the State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) had released the timetable for the elections scheduled to hold on Saturday, July 24, 2021. Amid the lingering internal strife in the state PDP, the chairman released the guidelines which, it was learnt, did not go down well with most of the executive members who said they were not carried along. A member of the state executive said the timetable was unilaterally planned and released by the chairman without the input o...

Oluchi Chibuzor The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Lagos State, yesterday alleged that individuals and corporate businesses in the state were reeling under the burden of multiple taxation. Consequently, the main opposition party claimed that the future of young people in the country, especially in Lagos State, “is not only dim but has become hopeless and hapless due to a hostile economic environment. The Chairman of Lagos PDP, Mr. Deji Doherty expressed this concern during a recent virtual t...

ANALYSIS: Inside the endless crises in Southwest PDP The PDP controls just one of six South-west states but its seemingly unresolvable crises may lead to even the loss of that state. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had planned to hold its zonal congresses this weekend. That of the South-west was, however, rescheduled for Monday in Osogbo, Osun State, following a disagreement over the initial arrangement to hold the event in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Saturday. Like that of the South-west, that o...

Lagos chapter of PDP has called for immediate discontinuation of their trial of #OccupyLekki protesters, describing the arrest, humiliation

Share Meeting of the South-West Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) meant to bring together party members on the sides of Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State and former Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State was aborted following the absence of Fayose and his loyalists. Fayose’s seat which was tagged was conspicuously left unoccupied at the Oyo State Government House, Ibadan, which was the venue of the meeting. Present at the venue of the aborted meeting was Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State who...

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...

But the duo of Dosunmu and Gani dismissed the purported suspension, which they said was a lie. Doherty told Daily Trust that 38 out of 57 members of the state executive suspended the party’s exco members at a forum. When contacted, the state secretary accused the chairman of forging people’s signatures, insisting that he remains the secretary of the party. When contacted, the publicity secretary also described his suspension as a lie. Rather he issued a statement that the chairman had ‘re...