FACED with the prospect of a summary dismissal, Dr. Okwesileze Nwodo, yesterday, resigned his appointment as National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

There was a mild drama at the Federal High Court in Abuja, yesterday, when Charles Okah, who was alleged to have masterminded several acts of terrorist activities across the nation, slumped in the middle of court proceedings and feigned death.

The embattled National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, Dr. Okwesileze Nwodo has resigned as the party’s chairman ahead of the National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting.

THE shaky take-off of the on-going registration of voters for this year’s general elections is attributable to a combination of manpower, machines, and logistics, according to Vanguard findings.

THE National Executive Committee, NEC, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is today set to oust its National Chairman, Dr. Okwesileze Nwodo, barring a last minute intervention from President Goodluck Jonathan.

The Seventh-Day Adventist Church has threatened to drag the Federal Government to court over the 2011 general elections should its members be disenfranchised through fixing of poll dates on Saturdays.

SOME governors of states in the North, yesterday, insisted that their decision to vote for President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate was hinged on the exigencies of national unity, patriotism and the need to uphold tenets of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

THE Joint Task Force, JTF, on the Niger-Delta, has seized another camp, belonging to the Niger-Delta Liberation Force, NDLF, headed by wanted militant leader, “General” John Togo.

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega, yesterday, formally flagged off the voter registration with the registration of President Goodluck Jonathan and members of his family at Otuoke in the Ogbia local government area of Bayelsa State amidst tight security.

Asian football chief Mohamed Bin Hammam ruled out shifting the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar to winter or staging tournament matches around the Gulf region.

The sensational appearance and disappearance of the National Chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Okwesileze Nwodo, at the party’s national convention, on Thursday night, may have been a climax to the politics of extremism and ego flowing from his native Enugu State.

The political camp of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has alleged lapses in Thursday’s presidential primaries of the PDP, quoting his agents at the collation of the result.

Malam Nuhu Ribadu, former chief of Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has emerged the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) presidential candidate. All the delegates answered yes in a voice vote to determine their support for Ribadu.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan early today, 6am Friday 2011, clinched the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential ticket in a contest that played out a subdued primordial sentiments in the pattern of voting at the party’s presidential primary, beating former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Mrs. Sarah Jubril.

By Adekunle Aliyu How Jonathan floored Atiku in the Primaries, 13/01/2011 Nos         States             Jonathan         Atiku 1.                    Abia                       80                             1 2.        Adamawa            76                           31 3.                    Anambra                47                          31 4.                   Akwa Ibom          141                           0 5.                  Bayelsa                    67                             0 6.                     Bauchi                      46                          44 7.                    Sokoto                      32                         84 8.                     Rivers                     128                            2 9.                     Benue                       75                         15 10.                  Borno                        33                        […]