(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Rivers State Election Petitions Tribunal has upturned the electoral victory of Senator George Thompson Sekibo. Instead, the lower court ruled Thursday that Mr. Andrew Uchendu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) was the winner of the Rivers East Senatorial District. Sekibo is of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has expressed its readiness to participate in the proposed local government area election in the state, just as it retreated her her determination to wrestle power from the ruling Peoples Democratic party PDP in 2019. However, as part […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Sen. Dino Melaye, representing Kogi West Senatorial district in the National Assembly says the signatures allegedly collected to influence his recall and forwarded to INEC were forged. Addressing newsmen on Sunday in Lokoja, Melaye who said investigations had revealed that even the dead signed the recall across the seven area councils of […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As part of measure to instil discipline amongst its members, the Enugu state chapter of the ruling All progressives Congress APC, has slammed a one year suspension each on five of its members, including the 2011 governorship candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria ACN in the […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu Nigeria (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Membership of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Enugu state got decimated further on Wednesday, as about 1000 of its members, including some chieftains in Egede, Udi Council area of the state, defected to the ruling All progressive Congress, APC. Among the defectors were 300 women, a professor, […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As part of strategy aimed at winning the 2019 general elections, the Enugu state chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC), has appointed some notable politicians from the area among whom are, governor of old Anambra State, Sen Jim Nwobodo; ex- Senate President, Ken Nnamani; immediate past Governor of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ekiti State House of Assembly has passed a resolution calling for the constitution of a Judicial Panel of inquiry into the financial transactions of the immediate-past government of the All Progressives Congress (APC) led by Dr Kayode Fayemi. According to a statement by its chairman, Committee on Information, Youths and Sports […]
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governors of South East geopolitical zone of Nigeria on Sunday resolved to intervene in the alarming epileptic power situation in the area which has continued to hinder economic growth in the region. Rising from their meeting held at the Enugu government house, the governors said they have agreed […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ex-Federal lawmaker, Hon Bimbo Daramola, on Friday flagged-off the distribution of free Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board, JAMB, forms to 1,000 prospective candidates from all across Ekiti State. Addressing the prospective JAMB candidates during the event, Hon Daramola, said the flag-off of his ” Teach Them How To Fish Platform” is set […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Amidst controversies on the health status of President Muhammdu Buhari, a pressure group under the aegis of Coalition of Civil Society Organizations for Good Governance, (CCSOGG), on Saturday described the demands for his resignation as misplaced. According to CCSOGG, “no organ of state is currently suffering directly or indirectly as a result […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Enugu state governor, Sullivan Chime has formally dumped the People’s Democratic Party for the All Progressives Congress, APC at a ceremony in Udi local council of the state. Chime told the gathering he was crossing with thousands of his supporters to the ruling party as the the National Chairman of the APC, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has demanded the immediate resignation of the State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, for constituting himself a nuisance and for belittling the high office that he occupies. The party made the demand in a statement issued on Friday in Port Harcourt, in which […]
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, ENUGU (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state chapter of the opposition people’s Democratic party PDP, Sunday suffered yet another major blow, as one of its founding fathers and former national secretary of the party, chief Rex Onyeabor, decamped to the ruling All progressive congress, APC, alongside over 20,000 (twenty thousand) of his supporters. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Cross carpeting rages in the Ondo State House of Assembly as another opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmaker Abayomi Akinruntan Tuesday defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Akinruntan who is representing Ilaje Constituency I, in the State House of Assembly, after meeting with Governor Rotimi Akeredolu decamped to the APC […]
Photo Caption: Immediate past president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Efforts to find a political solution to the festering leadership crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday suffered a major setback. Court-backed National Chairman Ali Modu Sheriff stormed out of a peace meeting convened by former President Goodluck Jonathan. At the meeting, […]
Picture caption: Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, Nigeria …As Party Leaders Vow to Close Ranks (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) National Reconciliation Committee headed by Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State Wednesday afternoon continued its search for peace in the party, meeting with Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu. Dickson, who […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Governor of Bayelsa State and Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) National Reconciliation Committee, Hon. Seriake Dickson, on Tuesday described the comments son the submission of his report to the National Executive of the party as mere propaganda. Governor Dickson maintained that rather than embark on name-calling, propaganda and outright lies, it […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) standing Committee on Reconciliation and Governor of Bayelsa State, Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson has appealed to party leaders to make sacrifices to revive the party. The governor said his committee has started embarking on a wide consultation with party leaders/ critical stakeholders across board […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Awka Nigeria (African Examiner) – The Senator representing Anambra South Senatorial district has dumped the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). He announced this while speaking with newsmen Wednesday at his country home, Uga, in Aguata council Area of Anambra state, South- East Nigeria. He disclosed that he joined […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Prince Buruji Kashamu has faulted the choice of Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayo Fayose as the Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum. In a statement he issued in Ijebu-Igbo, Ogun State on Sunday, Kashamu said, “It was a […]
