By Dirisu Yakubu – Abuja
This is certainly a good time for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as 16 aspirants indicated interest in the November 6, 2021 governorship election in Anambra state on the platform of the party.
The aspirants made up of thirteen men and three women, Monday, faced the screening committee constituted by the party to clear them for the November 6 primaries.
The party had earlier pegged the expression of interest form at N1 million, compliance form at N5 million, and nomination form at N20 million.
Vanguard reports that the PDP in line with its affirmative action to encourage women to seek elective office, waved nomination fee for all female aspirants meaning that the three ladies paid a total sum of N18 million only, being payment for obtaining expression of interest and compliance forms.
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The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio has vowed not to impose any governorship candidate on the people of Uyo Senatorial District in the 2023 general election in Akwa Ibom State.
This was in reaction to a rumour that he was planning to foist a particular aspirant as the choice of the Uyo Senatorial District.
By the zoning arrangement in the state, the next governor is expected to come from the Uyo Senatorial District, officially known as Akwa Ibom North-East, Akpabio, however, is from the North West or Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District.
The minister who disclosed this on Sunday during the inauguration of the Executives of Uyo Senatorial District chapter of Akwa Ibom Democratic Forum (ADF) stressed that he would not want the mistake he made in 2015 to repeat itself in 2023.
The Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, in Abia State, Barrister David Iroh, has revealed the magic wand that led the party to triumph in the
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Governors elected under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) have scheduled to meet on Friday (today) in Makurdi the Benue State Capital to discuss the state of the nation.
DAILY POST reports that some of the governors, including the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, Enugu Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi and his Sokoto State counterpart, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal have been in the state since Thursday.
The governors and other top government officials were in the state for the commissioning ceremony of the newly constructed Ultra-modern Tor Tiv Palce and other projects in Gboko Local Government of the State.