Dogara’s House: Still rebuilding
The inauguration of the House last June was steeped in crisis on account of the defeat of the favourite of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Femi Gbajabiamila by the Bauchi born Yakubu Dogara who was helped to the office by bloc votes of members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and renegade APC members.
Like California, Like Southern Ijaw
THE impression has been created in many quarters that INEC may have changed its name to the Inconclusive National Electoral Commission. Of course, if it is by coincidence that the two gubernatorial elections so far conducted under the new INEC leadership ended up being inconclusive, it must be a serious coincidence.
Bayelsa Poll: PDP slams JTF over security lapse in Southern Ijaw
The Restoration Campaign Organization of Governor Seriake Dickson, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the inconclusive poll in Bayelsa State, yesterday, slammed the Joint Task Force, JTF, for absolving itself of any blame in the violence and irregularities that marred the recent election in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state, saying that the security body could have done better to forestall the violence that led to the cancelation of the election.
Corruption allegations: PDP wants Buhari probed over 1984 security votes, PTF
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the presidency yesterday re-engaged in a war of words over corruption, with the opposition party daring the administration to institute a truth commission to probe utilisation of security votes back to 1984.
Probe Babangida, Abdulsalami, Obasanjo, Yar’Adua’s security votes, PDP tells Buhari
NATIONAL leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP said Sunday that if the All Progressives Congress, APC led Federal Government must succeed in its fight against Corruption, it must probe all security votes of past Presidents and Heads of State from 1984 to date, just as it called for the establishment of a National Truth Commission.
Igbo PDP govs will defect to APC — Ben Apugo
Chief Ben Apugo was a member of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the former ruling party at the centre.
In this interview, Apugo speaks on why he, alongside Senate President Bukola Saraki, former Governor Nyako of Adamawa State, and Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, quit the PDP. He also speaks on the fate of the APC in the South-East and the pro-Biafra quest by some Igbo elements, among other issues.
