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Tukur had on Wednesday threatened to arrest members of Baraje’s faction who parade themselves as National Executive Committee members

Tukur, who addressed a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday, while taking on the faction of the PDP under the leadership of Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje as National Chairman, said anyone elected on the platform of the party who recognizes any other leadership apart from his would also be removed from his seat

There are several reasons why the problem in the PDP has no easy solution. One of this is the President’s immediate circle of officials and advisers

The 57 House of Representatives members, including the Chairman of the House Committee on Information, Hon. Zakari Mohammed, said there were more members who could not sign the paper before it was released

A source, however, told The Eagle Online that it was possible the meeting was cancelled because some of the governors who have aligned with the PDP faction headed by Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje, have decided to boycott the meeting

It was gathered that the meeting was called to discuss the development in the party that led to emergence of another faction

Officially counted results at the ward level, awaiting final ratification at the local government level, have it that the APC defeated its closets rival and ruling party in the state, the Peoples Democratic Party, in 11 wards out of the 12 wards that make up the local government area

Bashir said the difference between the PDM and the PDP was that his own party stood for true democracy, equity and fairness

The convention is holding at the Eagle Square in Abuja

In the lead judgments, one of which was read by Justice Mary Odili, the Supreme Court said the petitioners lacked grounds for seeking the court’s intervention in pronouncing Mimiko not duly elected

Obielum, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, contested the party’s primary election in 2007 with eleven others, including the incumbent governor, but lost

The state PDP Chairman, Felix Obuah, announced this at a news briefing in Port Harcourt, the state capital

Tukur said this when he received the report of the party’s primaries from the Chairman of the five-man panel for the Anambra State electoral congress, Governor Ibrahim Shema of Kastina State

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

Speaking with correspondents after the emergency meeting of the National Executive Council of the party on Thursday, the governor posited that the fact that the NEC did not last for hours was a pointer that it the family is back together

The meeting, which started at 2pm and lasted barely two hours, was presided over by the National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, and attended by party chieftains, including President Goodluck Jonathan, Vice President Namadi Sambo and Speaker Aminu Tambuwal

Narrating the incident to newsmen, the driver of the PDP Hummer bus, Sunday Iroegbu, explained that they were driving in a motorcade from Awka to Enugu when the accident occurred

The President met with three separate groups in what was seen as an eleventh hour lobby aimed at ensuring that the NEC meeting goes his way

The Kwara State Independent Electoral Commission on Tuesday fixed August 31 for the conduct of fresh election in Offa Local Government Area

The DPP defectors said they were once members of the PDP but left the party because of the manner the party was being run by some leaders of the party and said they have returned to their party