Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has won all the 23 chairmanship positions contested on Saturday in the local government area elections conducted by Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, RSIEC.

ABUJA— National Organising Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Colonel Austin Akobundu (retd), has dismissed report that the party has issued guidelines for the conduct of its Presidential primaries, saying the claim that the party has settled for N12 million as cost of its Expression of Interest and Presidential Nomination Form was baseless.

THE Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State has raised the alarm over   alleged deliberate policy of the All Progressive Congress-led   administration to hound perceived opponents to jail.  The Party’s   governorship candidate in the State and a   member of House of Representatives from Remo North, Oladipupo Adebutu said this in  Abeokuta .

With the All Progressives Congress, APC boycotting today’s local government poll, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP is set to sweep all available chairmanship and councillorship positions. However, the outcome is bound to be challenged by entrenched political interests.

Moves by the new Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP, leaders in the All Progressives Congress, APC, to get solid political footing ahead of the 2019 elections are facing challenges that could lead to despair in a few weeks.