The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has approved the postponement of the South-South Zonal Congress, which was initially scheduled for Saturday, February 22, 2025. This was disclosed in a statement issued Thursday night by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba. “The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) @OfficialPDPNig has approved the postponement of the South-South Zonal Congress of our great party, earlier scheduled to hold on Saturday, February 22, 2025,” the statement partly read. While confirming the postponement, the NWC assured that the South-East and North-East Zonal Congresses would proceed as originally…
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A Labour Party chieftain and a governorship aspirant of the party in the Anambra State governorship election, Valentine Ozigbo has dumped the party. Ozigbo, an ally of the 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, also contested the state governorship election in 2021 under the Peoples Democratic Party. Although he did not disclose his next line of action, he said he resigned from the party in line with his unwavering commitment to the greater vision for the state. In a press statement signed by him on Wednesday, Ozigbo said Obi was duly informed of his decision as a mark of…
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has called for the creation of a pension fund for retired athletes who have brought honour to Nigeria during the groundbreaking ceremony of a 25,000-capacity Olympic stadium in Igbogene, Yenagoa, The PUNCH reports. Speaking at the event, which was part of activities marking Governor Douye Diri’s five years in office, Jonathan lamented that many Nigerian athletes who won international medals often end up destitute after retirement. “I always feel sad when I see people who have promoted the name Nigeria and gone for international games, either the Commonwealth or Olympics, and win medals, immediately after, there…
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has once again condemned the local government crisis that erupted in Osun State on Monday, resulting in the loss of six lives. In a statement issued via his verified X handle on Tuesday, the former VP described the chaos as a brutal display of lawlessness, political brigandage, and subversion of democracy. “Nigerians bore witness to a chilling display of lawlessness yesterday, as the Tinubu-led All Progressives Congress exposed the depths of its desperation to retain power at all costs — through sheer political brigandage and the subversion of democracy,” Atiku wrote. He stated that the…
The ruling All Progressives Congress has won the recently concluded chairmanship and councillorship elections in Katsina State. Chairman of the Katsina State Independent Electoral Commission, Lawal Alhassan, while announcing the results at the commission’s headquarters on Sunday, declared that the APC won all 34 chairmanship and 361 councillorship positions, having secured the majority of votes cast. Explaining the delay in announcing the results, Alhassan said the compilation could not be completed on the day of the election, February 15, 2025, as some local governments failed to submit their results on time. He said, “As of midnight yesterday, only 24 local…
The All Progressives Grand Alliance has told one of the frontline aspirants of the All Progressives Congress, Prof. Obiora Okonkwo, to drop his ambition of unseating Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo. Okonkwo, during the inauguration of the new APC secretariat in Awka, last week Saturday and at different fora, had boasted of unseating Soludo, if given the APC ticket, insisting that only he has the capacity to govern Anambra in the next dispensation. Reacting to Okonkwo’s comments in a press statement issued on Saturday (Today), the National Coordinator of APGA Media Warriors Forum, Chinedu Obigwe, said that even if…
A two-term Senator who represented Kaduna South Senatorial Zone, Danjuma La’ah, has officially resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party. La’ah, who served in the National Assembly for eight years, submitted his resignation letter to the Ward Chairman of PDP Mallagum Ward, Kaura Local Government Area, on February 4, 2025. In his letter, sighted by our correspondent in Kaduna on Friday, La’ah emphasised that his decision to leave the party was personal and did not affect his relationship with the people. “I humbly write to notify the leadership and members of Peoples Democratic Party, Mallagum Ward, Kauru Local Government Area of…
Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, on Thursday said he had received reports of a sinister plot by elements within opposition parties to launch vicious attacks on local government secretariats across the state. Adeleke also claimed that there were plans to target leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party and senior officials of his administration. In a statement signed by the governor’s spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed, Adeleke alleged that the plan was designed to disrupt the forthcoming local government elections and create an atmosphere of chaos to push for the declaration of a state of emergency. He warned that anyone apprehended over the…
The All Progressives Congress on Wednesday opened its defence by presenting four witnesses before the Edo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja. The witnesses, who served as local government collation agents, admitted under cross-examination that there were incidents of over-voting during the September 21, 2024, governorship election. The Peoples Democratic Party and its governorship candidate, Asue Ighodalo, are challenging the election results in which the Independent National Electoral Commission declared the APC candidate, Monday Okpebholo, as the winner. Aggrieved by the declaration, the PDP and Ighodalo filed a petition against INEC, Okpebholo, and the APC as 1st, 2nd,…
A former spokesperson for the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, Kenneth Okonkwo, on Tuesday, said his next political destination has not been defined, as he is patiently searching for one that has the welfare of Nigerians at heart. Okonkwo disclosed this on Channels Television’s Politics Today. “I have not made a decision on the party I want to go to. And if I do not see any party that has clear direction on the welfare of the Nigerian people, I will sit and take it up in prayers. “I will not join any party except to my own understanding,” he…