In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party called on all lovers of democracy within and outside Nigeria to join in the efforts to stop the PDP and its collaborators from truncating the nation’s democracy
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But in a statement on Saturday, the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, described the linkage of the party with the formation of the APC as unfounded, spurious and vexatious
In a statement issued in Lagos on Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said it is disturbing that the ruling party in Africa’s largest democracy can exhibit such ignorance or mischief, when the legal requirements for a merger are well spelt out in the Electoral Act
Okorocha, who spoke with newsmen in Owerri, Imo State on Thursday, said with the need to replace the PDP, it became apparent to him that the newly-formed All Peoples Congress will provide the platform for the needed change
The court, sitting in Yola, Adamawa State, thus threw out the petition of Dr. Umar Ardo, who also sought for the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party, the platform on which Nyako stood for the election
Kalu, in a statement he personally signed on Tuesday, described Anenih as a Political Emeritus, whose contributions to the party as the BOT chairman would be innumerable and immeasurable
Anenih emerged unopposed as a consensus candidate in line with the report of the Prof. Jerry Gana’s committee on streamlining the membership of the BOT
The tenure of the incumbent Chairman of the NGF and Governor of Rivers State, Hon. Rotimi Amaechi, is to end in April 2013
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke, told State House correspondents on Monday that the approval was sequel to the recommendation by the National Judicial Council
While contending that the PDPGF will not compete with the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, he said it will rather hasten decision making process since other parties such as the Action Congress of Nigeria and the All Nigeria Peoples Party also have similar bodies
He said this has resulted in many families and corporate organizations losing their automobile engines and other generating machines due to adulteration, adding that some retail outlets in the area were selling adulterated kerosene and other petroleum products owing to their patronage of illegal refineries
The Akwa Ibom State Governor, Barrister Godswill Akpabio, emerged as the chairman of the newly-formed group
The women, drawn from the 36 states of the federation, were in Abuja for the launch of the PDP Women-in-Power 2013 calendar
The ACN reiterated its earlier stand that the health of public officials cannot and must not be a closet affair, because it is of public interest
In a statement on Monday in Abuja, signed by its President, Alhaji Ahmed Abdulai, the STNM noted that it would amount to building something on nothing for the PDP NWC to continue to pretend that the Justice Abang’s order, which nullified the South-West Zonal Congress of the party, did not also affect the National Convention that produced the NWC members
The ACN said even if the PDP had not succeeded in giving the post of House Speaker to Yoruba in accordance with its so-called zoning formula, it could have rewarded them with known choice ministries or other top appointments, instead of totally relegating a whole people into irrelevance in its scheme of things
SRLN said the NWC ceased to exist consequent upon the court order granted on April 27, 2012 by Justice O. E. Abang in Suit Number FHC/L/CS/282/2012 between Chief Dapo Soremi and others, and the PDP and five others
The aggrieved party members, led by the sacked Chairman, Senator Dipo Odujinrin, on Saturday in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, described their treatment by the NWC as an injustice
The National Auditor of the PDP, Chief Bode Mustapha, and the entire executive in Ogun State were also sacked.
The PDP said it was worried that the moral heads of the Action Congress of Nigeria were still allowing both Omirin and Ikuforiji to preside over the Houses of Assemblies in Ekiti and Lagos States