THE two leading political parties in Bayelsa State, the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, traded words over claims of demolition and defacing of campaign bill boards and posters of their flag bearers.

The 96 new standing committees of the House of Representatives were yesterday inaugurated at a session boycotted by the House leader, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila.

The Peoples Democratic Party has saluted the Golden Eaglets for Sunday’s world cup victory, describing it as a bold statement by the Nigerian youth against series of ​”​uninspiring and negative utterances and actions​”​ of President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC government that has been de-marketing the nation in the international arena.

Saturday, November 7, I drove from Uyo to Enugu where I reunited with a long standing friend,Christian Chukwu MFR ( Chairman Chukwu, a living legend of Nigeria’s football, winner of CAF Football Legend award needs no introduction).

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said Saturday’s judgement of the Taraba State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal is the clearest indication yet that the PDP has started harvesting what it sowed in its years of impunity and recklessness, hence it should blame
itself for whatever tragedy has now befallen it.

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State on Saturday described the tribunal judgement which sacked the Taraba State Governor, Darius Ishaku of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as a ridiculous political judgement that can never stand before men of good conscience and God.

The Taraba State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja has nullified the election of Governor Darius Ishaku of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

AS part of moves to rebrand itself ahead of 2019 Presidential Election, national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday constituted a 53-member committee to organise a stakeholders conference.

THE House of Representatives was Thursday divided between the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP over a motion calling on the government to exercise restraint in the removal of fuel subsidy.

SENATE President Bukola Saraki,yesterday, in a move calculated to assuage the demands of the various tendencies in the Senate unveiled chairmen and deputy chairmen of the 65 standing committees.

After several months of lobbying and horse-trading, the tension which before now gripped members of the upper legislative chamber, over who gets what in the committees to oversee various ministries, departments and agencies of government, seems to have been doused, as the Senate President, Bukola Saraki on Wednesday named the chairmen and deputy chairmen of the 65 committees.

The Senate on Wednesday rejected a motion for the payment of N5, 000 monthly allowance to unemployed youths in the country.

The Rivers State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Wednesday, expressed shocked at the pronouncement of Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, that the APC is hell-bent on taking over Rivers and Akwa Ibom States, even as it called on the governor to steer clear of the state.

Former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the April 11 governorship election in Imo State, Chief Emeka Ihedioha, has debunked the recent media reports credited to Governor Rochas Okorocha, that he could have been the current Senate President if he had heeded to his (Okorocha’s) advice to join the All Progressives Congress, APC.

As a fallout to the open manipulations of last Saturday’s Borno Central Senatorial bye-election, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has charged its members and supporters to be on the alert and ready to defend votes in forthcoming elections, especially the November 21 and December 5 governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states respectively.