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• Governors, Tinubu, Atiku, Saraki, others charge Nigerians on unity, tolerance • PDP seeks prayers to save Nigeria from insecurity, biting economic hardship President Muhammadu Buhari has decried prevailing outrageous prices of food, ram and other items in the market, saying the development was not consistent with virtues of Islam. In his message marking the occasion of Eid-el-Adha being celebrated across the world today, President Buhari appealed to Muslims “to demonstrate the good vir...

THIS REPUBLIC  BY SHAKA MOMODU The political stakes as the 2023 general election draws near are almost unimaginable – all the more so because of the overlapping and complementary vulnerabilities of the two leading political parties – accentuated by the public perception of them as essentially Siamese twins. But one is gaining ground, the other is losing. The umbrella of Prince Uche Secondus, chairman of the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is leaking and badly. Buf...

•Rivers gov, Oshiomhole engage in verbal brickbats Emameh Gabriel in Abuja Ahead of 2023, a former Governor Cross River State, Liyel Imoke, has charged Nigeria youths to leverage their influence and negotiate their way into power. This is as River State Governor, Nyesom Wike went hard on the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, describing him as a serial liar and one that could not be taken for his words. Imoke made the call yesterday in his opening r...

Daily Post Nigeria Published The nomination of the controversial Personal Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari, Lauretta Onochie as an electoral commissioner has been generating buzz from day one. Civil Society Organizations and opposition parties, particularly the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have condemned the appointment of a known partisan person as commissioner for the electoral umpire. Section 14 (b) of the third schedule of the 1999 Constitution provided that members of the Indepen...

• Senate ignores protests; screens Onochie, others as INEC National Commissioners THE Special Assistant on New Media to President Muhammadu Buhari, Lauretta Onochie, Thursday denied the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, three times, saying she is not a member of the party. Onochie who denounced the party three times when she appeared before the Senator Kabiru Gaya, APC, Kano South-led Senate Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for screening as a National Com...

Advertisement Shawulu, a lawmaker representing Donga/Takum/Wusa federal constituency of Taraba state and member of the PDP, also called on members of the national working committee (NWC) of the party to resign over the recent wave of defections recorded in the party. At least eight federal lawmakers of the PDP have dumped the opposition party for the All Progressives Congress (APC) within the past eight days. About a fortnight ago, Peter Nwaoboshi, senator representing Delta north, also joined...

By Thu Jul 08 2021 A member of the House of Representatives, Rimamnde Shawulu Kwewum (PDP, Taraba) has asked National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus and other members of the National Working Committee (NWC) to resign over the gale of defections that has hit the party. Governor Dave Umahi (Ebonyi), Ben Ayade (Cross River) and Bello Matawalle (Zamfara) as well as other prominent members of the PDP recently jumped ship to the APC. The lawmaker, in an open lett...

Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State and his supporters last Tuesday joined the rank of defectors to the ruling All Progressive Congress . Nseobong Okon-Ekong and Emameh Gabriel write this string of migration may jolt the Peoples Democratic Party into a rude awakening The Prince Uche Secondus led- Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is currently facing a strong challenge that may be threatening its very existence, as it battles to keep its head above water. The crises rocking the main oppositio...

By Nseobong Okon-Ekong Valentine Ozigbo, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) flag-bearer for the 2021 Anambra governorship election, has been presented with his certificate of return after winning the party’s primary election held on Saturday, June 26, 2021. Prince Uche Secondus, the National Chairman of the PDP, presented the certificate to Ozigbo on Wednesday, June 30, 2021, at the National Headquarters of the PDP at Wadata House, Wuse Zone 5, Abuja. Ozigbo, who is the immediate past Preside...

Deji Elumoye, Chuks Okocha and Alex Enumah in Abuja Following Tuesday’s defection of Zamfara State Governor, Hon. Bello Matawalle, from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC), the National Working Committee (NWC) of the main opposition party has commenced a search for a competent legal team to retrieve its mandate from the Zamfara State governor, THISDAY has learnt. The leadership of the PDP, led by its National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, also yesterday...