The once tight grip of Labour Party on the politics of Ondo State recently eased when some foot soldiers of the party changed camp to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP

Hon Matthew Iduoriyekemwen is a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo state and former state Representative on the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).

The PDP leader who is one of those eyeing Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s seat in 2016, spoke to Vanguard last Tuesday, after some members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state dumped the party for the PDP. He reacted to their defection and asserted that no amount of terrorist activity will stop Jonathan’s re-election.

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ogun State yesterday, said the activities of Boko Haram had made President Goodkuck Jonathan a victim of circumstances.

On the issue of budget, they have raised our alertness. I think we are going to match them intellectually. I am not going to comment on their claims that PDP members are intellectually inferior to them because that is totally out of the way.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Ebele Jonathan continued his tour of state chapters of the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP and penultimate Monday, his train berthed in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, which is controlled by the All Progressives Congress, APC

As part of the events marking this year’s International Women’s Day, the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has honoured some “women-friendly leaders” of the Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

The Zamfara State Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has endorsed a retired civil servant, Alhaji Sagir Hamid, as its governorship candidate for the 2015 election in the state.

National Chairman of the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA), Mr. Peter Ameh, has described as unfair the domination of the forthcoming National Conference by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and four other political parties.

OSOGBO—A major crisis of confidence is brewing in the Osun state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, over planned removal of the state secretary of the party, Major Raphael Tewogbola (rtd) by a faction of PDP suspected to be loyal to one of the party’s three governorship aspirants

There will be display of tempers, outpouring of invectives, recriminations and lamentations.
There have been consultations across the country as the South-west is making spirited efforts to reach out to the South-east, South-south and the Middle Belt to build a consensus.
For the Jonathan administration, the turn around by the opposition may have saved the conference from credibility problem since the Yoruba have been the champion of national dialogue.

President Goodluck Jonathan has appealed to Nigerians to continue to trust the PDP in their choice for elective offices.

WHEN the Peoples Democratic Party Governors Forum (PDPGF) was established on February 24, 2013, it emerged on Nigeria’s political horizon as a child of circumstance facing an uncertain future.
It came at the time that the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) was waxing strong as a united body and keeping the Presidency on its toes on matters affecting the states, the governors themselves and the polity.

The Nasarawa State Deputy Governor, Damishi Luka, on Monday renounced his membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

WITH less than four months to the 2014 governorship election in Ekiti State, the major political parties are making frantic efforts to outwit one another ahead of the polls. The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, the People’s Democratic Party, PDP and the Labour Party, LP, are presently the frontline political parties that will slug it out at the polls.

The immediate past deputy governor of Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Nsima Ekere, has predicted that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will sweep the polls and retain control of the state in the 2015 general elections