Mark explained further that the PDP caucus in the Senate expressed its support for Jonathan’s re-election bid due to his people-centered transformation programme that needed to be executed to its logical end
Author: Lateef Ibrahim
The AK 47 wielding suspected Fulani insurgents, it was gathered, ambushed and killed their victims while returning home from their farms.
The assailants were also said to have made away with no fewer than nine motorcycles belonging to the victims
The PDP, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, on Saturday, pointed out that it is the duty of the National Working Committee, through the office of the National Organising Secretary, to release the result of the ward congresses for the election of three-man ad-hoc delegate or any primary election conducted by the party
The fracas, according to findings, occurred when one of the vehicles in the convoy of a PDP governorship aspirant, Alhaji Yusus Agabis, who was on his way to the party’s secretariat, was attacked by some suspected APC supporters
Governor Aliyu charged Corps members during the swearing in ceremony of the 2014 batch ‘C’ corps members in Paikoro Local Government Area of Niger State to make use of the opportunities they have while in camp to acquire skills that would contribute to national development
He also offered reason why he returned to the fold of the Peoples Democratic Party after losing the 2007 presidential election, which he contested on the platform of the then Action Congress of Nigeria
The Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Prof. Ahmed Rufai Alkali, who said this in a statement in Abuja, describe
The shootout, it was gathered, happened when the soldiers raided one of the camps of the AK 47 wielding insurgents at Ipkosogye in Obi Local Government Area of the state
The party based its position on the seeming inability of the President Goodluck Jonathan-led administration to address the security situations in the North Eastern part of the country
Nasko also vowed to sustain the current peaceful atmosphere being experienced in the state
Five days after President Goodluck Jonathan obtained his nomination and expression of interest forms to contest the 2015 election, the Peoples Democratic Party has thrown open the race for its presidential ticket to other intending aspirants
Dasuki specifically accused some political parties and a section of the media of frustrating the efforts of the Federal Government in curbing insurgency as well in conducting free, fair and credible election
Abubakar, who is one of the presidential aspirants of the All Progressives Congress, said further that many people, who are unable to come to terms with why a so-called “Africa’s best army” has been unable to confront this horrendous situation, are increasingly assuming that this whole thing is about electoral politics
Kano State is currently under the control of the All Progressives Congress, with Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso as governor
The union described the act as shameful, distasteful and unconstitutional
The group, in a statement by its National Coordinators, Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili and Hajiya Hadiza Bala-Usman, said: “We cannot but remind our Federal Government and our President that time is running out fast on the Rescue Plans for our 219 Chibok Girls
The Turaki Adamawa, who was abroad when the sordid incident took place in his home state on Wednesday, told a group of journalists on arrival on Friday: “With what I have gathered so far from online news reports and other sources from Mubi town, the situation is very unfortunate and undermining for our country
The electoral guidelines released by the party on Friday for the primary elections, indicated that one of the three ad hoc delegates shall be a woman
The President collected the nomination and EOI forms at about 2.20pm from the National Organising Secretary of the PDP, Alhaji Abubakar Mustapha
The government statement however appealed to the general public to discard the media reports as they are incorrect and hence not in line with the resolution of the National Council on Transport