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Our people in Southeast ‘re against grazing reserves  — TA Orji

Our people in Southeast ‘re against grazing reserves — TA Orji

Senator Theodore Ahamefule Orji, immediate past governor of Abia State presently represents Abia Central Senatorial District in the Senate. In this session with journalists, the former governor speaks on developments in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, issues arising from proposals for a grazing reserve among others.

PDP Crisis: We’ve achieved our aims — Jerry Gana

PDP Crisis: We’ve achieved our aims — Jerry Gana

Senator Jerry Gana, who served in the Second Republic Senate, was a professor of Geography, several times minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; a former presidential candidate, a part time preacher, was the founding secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. He was one of the arrowheads who mobilised founding fathers of the PDP to stop the party from electing Senator Ali Modu Sheriff as substantive chairman of the country’s leading opposition party.

APC should bring human face to governance  — Salvador, Lagos PDP Chairman

APC should bring human face to governance — Salvador, Lagos PDP Chairman

MR Moshood Salvador, a former member of the House of Representatives between 1999 and 2003, recently emerged as chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos State. Shortly after being sworn-in, Salvador had a brief interaction with newsmen, where he shared his mission and vision for Lagos PDP.

This Senate is not protecting Saraki — Senator Anyanwu

This Senate is not protecting Saraki — Senator Anyanwu

Senator Samuel Anyanwu represents Imo East Senatorial District in the Senate on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Anyanwu is the Chairman, Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges, and Public Petitions.

Delta APC will welcome Ogboru, Ochei, others in June but … Emerhor

Delta APC will welcome Ogboru, Ochei, others in June but … Emerhor

There has been unease in Delta State Labour Party, LP, since serial governorship candidate, Chief Great Ogboru, said he might collapse the structure of the party in the state, on which platform he ran for governorship in 2015, to now move same to the All Progressives Party, APC. In this chat with Sunday Vanguard, the 2015 Delta APC governorship candidate, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor, affirms that Ogboru and a former state House of Assembly Speaker, Victor Ochei, will be admitted into the party in June, but that the move does not amount to a merger.

10 policemen to be recruited from each LGA — Rep Oladele

10 policemen to be recruited from each LGA — Rep Oladele

The best of empowerment, many have said, is to teach people how to fish and not to continuously give them fish. It is not clear if this popular saying prompted the member, House of Representative representing Irepo/Orelope/Olorunsogo Federal Constituency in the National Assembly, Honorable Bosun Oladele when, as a departure from the culture of giving out money for temporary benefit by politicians of his clime, the federal lawmaker, by way of his constituency project as captured in the 2015 Budget, decided to empower his constituents in a way that they would be able to carry on with their jobs at hands in a more productive way.