Sam Okaula, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, who led the operation, said the police would ensure the maintenance of law and order in the state
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The judge also ordered the two factions to maintain the status quo and obey the order made by a Federal High court in Akwa, Anambra State, on May 31
President Jonathan has recorded many firsts. He will go down in the books perhaps as the first President under whose leadership the party he leads has exploded
The statement by Eze reads: “We have read some of the utterances of the Alhaji Bamanga Tukur-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and found most of them to be exasperating, disgusting, unacceptable and very unfortunate. We have heard about the threat to suspend or expel State Governors and members of the National Assembly that are indentifying with the true leadership of PDP under Alh Abubakar Kawu Baraje
The subversion of democratic principles to the whims and caprices of the party’s hierarchy is fast becoming the norm in the PDP
“Before now, those six governors had been going from one place to another in their personal interests
A statement by the eldest son of the deceased, who is a also Federal Commissioner in the Federal Character Commission, Dr. Femi Ogunsola, in IIorin on Sunday, said the deceased was aged 90
The APC described the sealing up of the new PDP secretariat as a throwback to the nation’s darkest era, saying it also confirms the fears being expressed by the opposition that the President Goodluck Jonathan Administration, which is now being hoisted by its own petard, will become increasingly intolerant and repressive with the approach of the 2015 general election
Speaking on Thursday in Abuja at a seminar jointly organized by the Offices of the National Woman and Youth Leaders, Tukur said those that formed the ‘New PDP’ would be treated as prodigal sons and daughters should they decide to return to the family
The party said the impunity perpetrated by the PDP has started hunting it, after its candidate in the Shawo South West Ward, Afolabi Jimoh Olawole, repudiated his so-called victory, just like one of the presiding officers, Oyetunji Akeem, said the APC won the Councillorship and Chairmanship in Shawo central ward
Olawole said, “In all the eight polling units in my ward (Shawo South West) the PDP lost, while the APC won convincingly in all the polling units in the rerun election held on August 31, 2013. As a citizen of this great town, Offa, I know so well that the town stands for equity and justice
Kunini said this at a news conference in Jalingo, the Taraba State capital, alleging that the committee had violated a court order of June 4, which restrained it from investigating the health condition of Governor Danbaba Suntai
But sources said the Presidency has narrowed the search for the certificate to three political gladiators within the party
Briefing Journalists after about a two-hour close door meeting, the committee Chairman, Senator Hope Uzodima, stated that the impasse had been resolved with all stakeholders, including Suntai’s wife, Hauwa
Well stated, you may say. But our ever greedy politicians are ever ready to explore the legal loopholes inherent in their hurriedly but poorly written constitutions of their political parties. And using the machinations of some dare-devil lawyers who give no qualms to morality or ethics of their profession but their greed for money, these disgruntled political radicals (free radicals, to borrow from science) have abused the courts of law to frustrate the growth of these political parties as enduring institutions that are formed to stabilize Nigeria’s democracy
Olisa Metuh, who was re-elected as the party`s National Publicity Secretary at its Special National Convention on Saturday, stated this in Abuja
In a letter to the group on Monday, the 22 senators congratulated the faction that broke away from the party on Saturday during the controversial Special National Convention of the PDP in Abuja
Justice S. Safari is to hear the case of the faction, which broke out from the main party after a disagreement at the Special National Convention of the PDP in Abuja on Saturday
The Special Convention of the party was held at the Eagle Square in
Abuja on Sunday where 17 new national officers were elected while a
faction of the party under the leadership of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and seven governors also met at Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre where it elected another set of officers
The Chairman of the Kwara State Independent Electoral Commission, Dr. Uthman Ajidagba, made the disclosure on Sunday in Offa, near Ilorin, while announcing the result of the elections