The convention was necessitated by the July 25 ruling of an Abuja High Court, which declared the March 2012 National Convention of the party a nullity.
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The elections were for officers affected by a July 25 Abuja High Court ruling. Mark said: “Though the party has been criticised by opposition parties, but it is also a fact that politicians from those parties have been decamping to PDP on a daily basis
Bashir said: “We appreciate the bold, brave and patriotic stand of these delegates for refusing to participate in an election which they knew gave no even playing ground to all stakeholders
Addressing a news conference, Abubakar said the group has emerged the authentic PDP.
Other members of the parallel PDP are a former Governor of Osun State and former National Secretary, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola; and the Governor of Rivers State, Hon. Rotimi Amaechi
All of a sudden, all eyes shifted to the Anambra State stand because of the noise coming out from that angle. Trouble broke out when Tony Nwoye arrived the venue and found out that the Anambra State stand had been occupied by Andy Uba and his supporters
In a statement issued in London, United Kingdom on Friday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the APC said the allegation is also an admittance of failure on the part of the PDP, which has been in power in Kwara State in the last 10 years
He said that he was amazed that Obuah and his co-travellers could make such a pronouncement when they knew it was only at the national level that any disciplinary action could be taken against him, if he erred
Aliyu, alongside four other northern governors, are believed to be opposed to President Jonathan’s 2015 reelection ambition
Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, the Chairman of the screening panel, told newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja that the postponement became necessary due to complaints by some aspirants that the notice for the screening was short
The court also restrained PDP and INEC from accepting the outcome of the primary election conducted by Ken Emeakayi’s faction of the party
The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mariam Aloma Mukhtar, gave the new date following a protest to her office that the September 24 date falls outside the mandatory 60 days to determine the election petition appeals
The other contestants for the primary election were Patrick Ugboma, 88 votes; Jerry Ugokwe, 86; Mike Okoye, 22
The legal luminary, in an interview on why he wants to be governor, come 2015, reeled out his blueprint from the development of the state as from 2015 and wondered why the ruling party was bamboozling the people of state, looting and lavishing huge resources on frivolities for over 13 years
Although a new date had not been fixed, he explained that the postponement was to give the party enough room for consultation with its rank and file
“In that circumstance, all the respondents in the motion are ordered to appear in court to say why the prayer should not be granted
Issues relating to the party`s forthcoming Special National Convention and South-West congress slated for August 31 and August 24 and other pressing party issues are expected to be discussed at the meeting
The statement reads: “Again, on Saturday August, 18, 2013, Presidential Assistant on Public Affairs Dr. Doyin Okupe on a radio programme, continued his grossly irresponsible, repugnant and contemptuous, albeit, feckless mission of denigrating and disparaging the person and office of the Governor of Rivers State and the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF), the Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi
In a position statement co-signed by the state Acting Chairman of the party, Olorogun Tobore Isaac Ajueshi, and his Secretary, Engineer Azuka Ofili, in Asaba shortly after an enlarged meeting of the state management team, the APC said it has prepared to liberate the oil rich state from the shackles of corruption being celebrated by successive PDP governors in the state
He said: “We have contradictions in the polity and this is one of the things that is affecting the way we are perceived and these are the constraint of our works
The Commissioner for Housing and Urban Development, Solomon Maren,
told NAN that there was more to the reason advanced by the security
agencies