Presidency, G-7 meeting deadlock over Amaechi
Despite spirited attempts to resolve the crisis rocking the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, which split into two weeks ago, there were indications that the attempt by the Presidency to gloss over the Rivers State issue had stalled negotiations.
PDP’s stormy tea cup
WHEN the Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF, election politics was raging and some commentators said Their Excellencies were wasting time on an irrelevant issue that had no bearing on the average Nigerian, I laughed.
PDP implodes like an old NEPA transformer
If we attempt a post-humous reading of his fertile imagination, the earth-shaking event of last weekend, with the walk out of seven governors, and former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, from the PDP convention in Abuja, would certainly have elicited an absolutely quotable line for posterity!
PDP crisis, divine intervention – CNPP
MAKURDI— The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP, has described the crisis rocking the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, “as God’s divine intervention to liberate the ordinary Nigerian from years of deprivation, repression and maladministration by a class that has held Nigerians captive.”
Crises beautify democracy – Wike
Minister of State for Education, Nyesom Wike, in this brief encounter with Vanguard, speaks on the mini-convention of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, and the crisis rocking Rivers State. Excerpts:
Taraba Assembly adopts resolution empowering Ag Gov
*Asks Suntai to seek further medical attention
*Suntai warns Tukur to stay out of Taraba politics
JALINGO—Convinced that the ailing governor of the state, Danbaba Suntai, cannot give his best given his current medical state, members of the Taraba House of Assembly Monday mandated the Deputy Governor, Garba Umar, who has been acting in the past ten months, to continue.
