Local government elections were held in Ekiti State yesterday.

While the opposition party in the state, All Progressive Congress (APC), has boycotted the election, four other parties have participated including the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

A fortnight after the successful conduct of its elective convention; the PDP is engulfed in fresh crises as disgruntled members, bent on having their way, stepped up to challenge the legitimacy of the newly-inaugurated leadership. Can the centre therefore hold for the major opposition party in the land in 2019?

Following the petrol scarcity witnessed in many parts of the country in this festive period, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to provide petrol to Nigerians and stop shifting the blames on marketers, saying the president knew that the buck stops at his table when he appointed himself as Nigeria’s Minister of Petroleum and Resources.

Decades ago there was a column, PARALLAX SNAPS which you had to read to have a truly complete and fulfilled week; Dele Giwa who died of a parcel bomb was host of that column.

NATIONAL Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, yesterday, declared that the PDP under his watch will maintain zero tolerance to imposition, saying open primaries will be conducted by the party in every stage of elections in Nigeria.

ABUJA—THE House of Representatives caucus of Peoples Democratic Party,PDP, yesterday, within hours of an announcement of a splinter group, which called itself Fresh PDP, has roundly denounced the new group.

CHAIRMAN of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Delta State, Prophet Jones Erue, has said that the party will bring the “wanton rigging” by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,  to an end in the January 6, 2018 local government elections in the state.

The impression that Delta Central is the base of the opposition to successive Peoples Democratic Party, PDP administrations in the state is set to be tested in the forthcoming election given the determination of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and his associates to change that narrative.

Just days after the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, lost a member in the House of Representatives to the All Progressives Congress, APC, party, another member Johnson Agbonayinma has just decamped again to APC, citing PDP shut the doors on him.

ABUJA—THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was yesterday headed for a fresh crisis, following the emergence of a splinter group, christened “Concerned Candidates and Stakeholders of PDP, who disavowed the penultimate weekend’s national convention and the leadership that it produced.

Former Education minister and national chairmanship candidate in the just concluded Peoples Democratic party (PDP) national convention, Professor Tunde Adeniran, has disowned a group which Wednesday announced its birth with a secretariat in Abuja.

Members of the House of Representatives elected on the platform of  Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday staged a walkout from plenary to protest the ruling of the  Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, which endorsed the defection of Nnanna Igbokwe from the party to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday raised an alarm over what it termed the continued harassment and intimidation of its members by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) government led by President Muhammad Buhari, warning that the trend should stop henceforth.

SOME of the 21 newly-registered political parties have taken a swipe at the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for running the country aground, describing them as one and the same.