In a statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said since the arrest of the lawmakers for carrying out their statutory duty of approving a budget cannot be justified by any law, it is clear to all discerning Nigerians that the only motive can be to harass and intimidate the lawmakers of a state that recently escaped from the hell-hole called the Peoples Democratic Party to join the APC
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He said: “Despite that there is a pending suit number HAD/35/2013 filed against the Ekiti State Signage Agency and the State Attorney-General, demanding the payment of N100 million as general damages, N2.25 million being the cost of fabrication and installation of the billboards and signposts over the wanton destruction of our billboards last April, agents of the government have been moving around, destroying our posters
The meeting, which will now be held fortnightly, was aimed at fostering greater unity among the party members in the senatorial district in particular and the state in general.
In an address to members of the press at the Government House, Kano on Monday, the state Governor, Rabi’u Kwankwaso, stated that the public officials were apparently arrested in connection with the budget amendment of 2013 of the state government, which he has already been signed into law
Buhari added that the party would rule Nigeria no matter the opposition from other political parties.
Buhari, a chieftain of the party, made the remark while addressing party faithful at a Sensitisation Rally in Port Harcourt, Rivers State
Kalu made the remark at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, before travelling to Dubai, United Arab Emirates
“We are rebranding the PDP now and we will come out stronger after it,” he said
All Progressives Congress as “a further demonstration of the party’s shameless hypocrisy and desperation for power
“No doubt, the PDP has lost so much to the APC. We have maintained some studious silence and shall react like a wounded lion beginning from early 2014,” Pwajok told the News Agency of Nigeria in Jos on Monday
Nwoye made the disclosure on Monday in Awka, during an interactive session with stakeholders of the party
The summon was contained in a letter, with reference number CR:3000/EFCC/KNZ/EG/TA/VOL.10/123, dated December 23, 2013 and signed by the EFCC Head of Operations in Kano, Ishaq Salihu
Speaking on behalf of the party at its Samonda Secretariat, Ibadan, the Publicity Secretary, Dr. Nureni Adeniran, said that Bolomope’s open declaration on the floor of the House was the height of betrayal and mistrust to the party, as well as the people of Egbeda constituency, who voted him in
The party noted the various politicians and political parties in the state had been going about their political activities in very peaceful and responsible manner devoid of any allegation of molestation before Bamidele and his men started introducing violence into the politics of the state, using imported thugs from neighbouring states
Last week, 37 members elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party formally decamped to the APC, citing relevant sections of the constitution
While a report said that Afolabi, who was arrested with a gun in the compound of Deji Adesokan, the Senior Special Assistant (Internal Security) to the Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, is an aide to Bamidele, the House of Representatives member said he had not set his eyes on Afolabi in the last 18 months
Obasanjo was elected as president on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party
NAN reports that Gov. Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom led PDP Governors Forum had earlier held a close-door meeting with Tukur
Alaba Yusuf, the Media Advisor to the PDM Chairman, Malam Bashir Ibrahim, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja that the party was yet to conclude manual registration of members
Shinkafi described the idea as a welcome development, adding that would enhance electoral processes of the country
Speaking after a meeting on Wednesday at the Government House in Yola, the SSG, Kobis Thimnu, who spoke on behalf of the state executive council members, said their decision to join the state Governor, Alhaji Murtala Nyako, to APC was a collective one
The suspension order was announced by the Speaker, Hon. Rasaq Atunwa, after the House had adopted the report of its Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Judiciary