Rivers crisis continues as RVSG, PDP, G27 lawmakers scuffle over vacancy of seats

December 18, 2023 Blossom 0

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the state government, and the G27 faction of the Rivers State House of Assembly—led by Mr. Martins Amaewhule—disagreed yesterday over the House’s open seats. The Rivers State administration and the PDP disagreed, notwithstanding Amaewhule’s claim that their seats are not vacant because their constitutional defection from the PDP to the All Progressives Congress, or APC, was caused by a crisis that rocked the party in the state. This happened on a day an alleged draft of an Abuja court order backing the G-27 and commencement of impeachment process against Governor […]

PDP lists nine grounds, asks S’Court to void Aliyu’s election in Sokoto

December 12, 2023 Blossom 0

The Peoples Democratic Party, or PDP, and Mr. Saidu Umar, its candidate for governor of Sokoto State on March 18, have listed nine reasons why they believe the Supreme Court should overturn the concurrent rulings of the Election Petition Tribunal and the Court of Appeal, which upheld Ahmed Aliyu’s election as governor. In the appeal filed on their behalf by their team of lawyers led by Mr Sunday Ibrahim Ameh, SAN, the appellants claimed that “the […]

2024 budget: ‘Designed to strangulate poor Nigerians’ – PDP reacts to proposed N27trn budget

November 30, 2023 Blossom 0

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the opposition, criticized President Bola Tinubu’s “Budget of Renewed Hope” before a joint session of the National Assembly on Wednesday, claiming that the N27.5 trillion budget estimates were intended to suffocate Nigeria’s impoverished citizens. The party, in a statement by its spokesman, Debo Ologunagba, alleged that the proposed budget by the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration was padded […]

We’re not scared of rerun – PDP boasts as court sacks Gov Lawal of Zamfara

November 17, 2023 Blossom 0

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) branch in Zamfara State has guaranteed that, should the state have another election as ordered by the Court of Appeal, the party would still win with a landslide. Buhari Maijega, the State’s PDP spokesman, expressed this optimism during a telephone interview with newsmen in Gusau, the state capital. He confidently stated that […]