Information reaching The Eagle Online has it that some governors loyal to Jonathan are also going to attend the meeting
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Speaking through the Director General of Prince Adedayo Adeyeye Movement, Hon Bisi Kolawole, the PDP governorship aspirant said it was painful that the same government that could not pay pensioners their gratuities since last year is now spending over N100 million to send more than 50 youths of the All Progressives Congress to South Africa for nine days jamboree
This was contained in a statement by Olisa Metuh, the party`s National Publicity Secretary, in Abuja
The reconciliatory meeting which was held at the First Lady wing of the Presidential Villa, was attended by Vice President Namadi Sambo, chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT) Chief Tony Anenih, Governors Godswil Akpabio (Akwa Ibom), Liyel Imoke (Cross Rivers) and Idris Wada (Kogi)
Epoke said Tony Nwonye of the Peoples Democratic Party and Senator Chris Ngige of the All Progressives Congress scored 97,700 and 95,963 votes to emerge second and third respectively
Speaking Friday night at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) state caucus meeting at the Government House, Yenagoa, the President decried ASUU’s refusal to call of its strike even after he met with them for 13 hours
Ribadu said that officials of the party were working hard to set up a durable structure that would give a level-playing field to all its members
The party spokesman said that what happened between the group and the APC on November 26 was not a merger
The Deputy Chairman, House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Hon. Victor Ogene, said this while addressing parliamentary correspondents in Abuja
Fayemi’s party, the All Progressives Congress, recently merged with the New Peoples Democratic Party, to which Oni belongs
The leadership of the new PDP entered into a meeting with the leadership of the APC on Tuesday morning and by 11.45am, the meeting which started by 9.30 am ended with an announcement that the nPDP has merged with the APC
He said: “I do not see a problem in the issues of certain politicians wanting to change party
Omisore, while reacting to INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega’s statement that the 181 APC members who claimed to be election observers were fake and never accredited by the commission to monitor the election, said: “What Aregbesola did was to test-run and perfect his rigging plans towards next year election in Osun Sate having declared to his APC members that his second term ambition is a do-or-die affair
In a statement by the Director General, Prince Adedayo Adeyeye Movement, Hon. Bisi Kolawole, the governorship aspirant blamed Fayemi’s government for the near collapse of economic activities in the state, especially the state capital, Ado-Ekiti
Addressing a news conference in Awka on Sunday, Nwoye alleged that the poll was manipulated by the Independent National Electoral Commission and security agencies for a particular political party
In some areas, especially those labelled as strongholds of the All Progressives Congress, which is fielding Dr. Chris Ngige for the election, materials did not arrive early
The party said the holiday is to forcefully mobilise civil servants from Anambra State working in Rivers State to vote in the election
Adeyeye said the governor should rather demonstrate his respect for the sanctity of human lives by stopping frustration of the trial of the state Interim Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Jide Awe, and others being tried for alleged involvement in the murder of Ayo Murphy Jeje and Juliana Adewumi
The PDM said it was not the business of Anenih to decide for the majority of the members of the movement, founded by the late Major General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua, whether it should be registered as a political party or not
The party said that Anenih wants to use the meeting as a platform for those attending to reject the registration of the PDM as a political party