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A factional national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ali Modu Sheriff‎, has rejected the Board of Trustees (BoT) proposals for truce, thereby issuing two new conditional for peace. Sheriff said the Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led National Caretaker Committee must be dissolved...

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar on Sunday denied any involvement in the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party. Atiku was reacting to a story in a national newspaper which linked him with the crisis in the party. In a post on Twitter by his media office, Atiku said he had no hands in...

Alhaji Jazuli Liman, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP candidate for Tureta state Constituency in the bye-election in Sokoto State, has defected to the All Progressives Congress ( APC). VANGUARD reports that ahead of the August 20 ekection, Liman announced his defection in Tsamiya village...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday denied media reports suggesting he attended an event convened by his former party, the Peoples Democratic Party in Abuja. Obasanjo, in a text message, he sent to PremiumTimes on Saturday morning said the reports were a ploy by their masterminds to...

The Expanded National Caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) just ended at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Center, Abuja with several leaders and other stakeholders of the Party in attendance. The Meeting deliberated on several issues affecting the Party and arrived at the following decisions...

National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, says the party is sad that a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is the Deputy Senate President. Reacting to a comment by Senator Dino Melaye that the APC should be grateful that it didn’t lose the...

Bearing on the current crisis rocking the boat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Hope Uzodinma representing Imo West in the National Assembly as and also a member of Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has recently commented on the leadership crisis in the...

True, opposition should be the people's watchdog keeping the government on its toes and forcing it to follow the right democratic path. Opposition parties are also expected to play the oversight role by ensuring that the actions of government are in the best interest of the people. Role of...

A few days after the Peoples Democratic party's primary election that produced Osagie Ize Iyamu as the party’s candidate, Ali Modu Sheriff’s faction has set up a committee to conduct a fresh primary. Sen Ali Modu Sheriff on Thursday inaugurated five committees for the conduct of a fresh primary...

The return to democracy in 1999 was welcomed by the greater majority of Nigerians as well as the international community. The Peoples Democratic Party prides itself as a big umbrella that shields the Nigerian populace from rain, sun, and untold hardships. But all do not seem well for the...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Niger state has splited into two with former state Chairman of the party, Alhaji Abdulrahman Mahmud Enagi leading a parallel Exco in the state. According to Vanguard, Enagi is not only leading a factionalized Executive Council, he has also threatened to...

Elder statesman, and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Ebenezer Babatope has described the suffering of Nigerians under the leader of President Muhammadu Buhari-led government as very unbearable. Babatope who spoke with Vanguard said, although, the APC-led government was trying...

A former Minister of Sports/Special Duties, and member of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prof. Taoheed Adedoja has declared that even if the zoning of the chairmanship of the party does not come to the South West, he was ready to defy all odds and contest for the position. Adedoja made this...

Chief Bisi Akande, former national chairman of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in an interview with Vanguard newspaper, raised alarm on defection among other political issues. In the word of Akande, “those who are defecting from one...