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The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, on Wednesday, okayed three separate suits seeking to declare the seats of Governors Samuel Ortom of Benue State, Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State and Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State, vacant, following their defection to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Read More THE National Leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has feigned knowledge of friction in the states between some governors and National Assembly members elected on its platform, which could make the aggrieved members to defect to other parties.
Read More Where is national interest in all defection?
Read More An Abuja High Court sitting at Bwari has ordered Senator Stella Oduah who is representing Anambra North Senatorial District, to within five days, adduce reasons why her seat should not be declared vacant following her defection from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA.
Read More ARCHBISHOP Metropolitan and Primate of All Nigeria, Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh yesterday in Onitsha, Anambra State, told politicians in Nigeria that defecting from one party to another would not solve their problems and that of the country.
Read MoreDefection: Is it for personal interest or public?
Read More But the move that culminated in Akpabio’s final decision to cross over to APC did not come from the blues. It was a properly coordinated affair, apparently initiated by the APC National Leader Tinubu
Read More Tunde Giwa-Daramola, a chieftain of the All Progressive Party (APC), has urged youths to remain steadfast in their support for the party in spite of the wave of defections across the country.
Read More CHAIRMAN, Senate Committee on Public Accounts, Senator Matthew Urhoghide has described the defection move by Senator Godswill Akpabio from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC, as a stab in the back of those who supported him to be elected as the Minority Leader in the Senate.
Read More Federal Government said, yesterday, that no amount of defection from opposition parties to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, will shield any corrupt politician from investigation and prosecution by anti-graft agencies.
Read More The crisis of misgovernance in the country has been accentuated by the official impunity of members of the ruling class. Hence, the executive is justifying disobedience of court orders while legislators regularly suspend their colleagues and carry out impeachment of Governors outside the ambit of the Constitution. Even though it has been decided by the Court of Appeal that a legislative house lacks the power to suspend a legislator both chambers of the national assembly and state legislative houses have continued to suspend members who disagree with their colleagues.
Read More The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has dismissed insinuations in some quarters that the recent wave of defections into the party may sow seeds of discord within its ranks, nothing that the PDP has further been strengthen with the return of some highly profile defectors last week.
Read More It was one hell of a week for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) following the defection of its high-profile members into the main opposition political party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Read More The ruling All Progressives Congress APC has said it will not be distracted by the continued depletion of its rank by some aggrieved stakeholders, saying it is concentrating its focus on the forthcoming general elections.
Read More THE political talk of the town now is the “defection” of fourteen senators and thirty-seven representatives from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Indeed, to my good friend Olisa Agbakoba — founding president and former colleague at the Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO), now co-convener of the Nigeria Intervention Movement (NIM) — what transpired last week in the tainted chambers of the National Assembly is nothing short of the warning waves of a political tsunami of mass desertion from APC.
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