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Bayelsa Poll: Jubilation As INEC Declares Diri Winner  *Says I’ll Continue To Be Governor For All

Bayelsa Poll: Jubilation As INEC Declares Diri Winner *Says I’ll Continue To Be Governor For All

News Feature, Politics
Bayelsa State erupted in jubilation on Monday as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Governor Douye Diri of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) winner of the off-cycle governorship election in the state. Governor Diri polled 175,196 votes to defeat his closest rival, Chief Timipre Sylva of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who scored 110,108 votes. In the state capital, Yenagoa, jubilant crowd trooped into the streets singing, dancing and waving the PDP flags in carnival-like celebrations. Governor Kefas Agbu of Taraba State and his Delta State counterpart, Sheriff Oborevwori joined Governor Diri among other leaders of the party and the state at the PDP situation room inside the Government House annex at Onopa as the results were being announced. Th...
10th National Assembly: President Bodi Congratulate Gov. Diri and Members

10th National Assembly: President Bodi Congratulate Gov. Diri and Members

News Feature
President of Friends of Senator Douye Diri ( FSDD), Prince Bodi-Arerebo has congratulated His Excellency, Senator Douye Diri, the Miracle Executive Governor of Bayelsa State and members of our great party, People's Democratic Party (PDP), on the successful inauguration of the 10th National Assembly, yesterday 13th June, 2023 at the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja. Prince Bodi thanked God for the successful inauguration of all Senators and Members of the House of Representatives, elected on the platform of the party. He also used the opportunity to thank all our members who took time to attend the occasion in Abuja and wished them journey mercies back to their various destinations. Prince Bodi further pledged the unalloyed support of members of the FSDD to our friend and prin...
Court of Appeal: Names All 5 Judges to Determine Obi, Atiku’s Petitions Against Tinubu (Full Profiles)

Court of Appeal: Names All 5 Judges to Determine Obi, Atiku’s Petitions Against Tinubu (Full Profiles)

Law, Politics
The court of appeal has unveiled the five justices to sit over the presidential election petitions of the candidate of the People's Democratic Party PDP Atiku Abubakar and candidate of the Labour Party, LP Peter Obi against the victory of the All Progressives Congress candidate Bola Tinubu in the February 25, 2023 presidential election. 1. Hon. Justice Haruna Simon TSAMMANI (Chairman) Born on 23rd November 1959, he hails from Tafawa Balewa LGA of Bauchi State. Tsammani obtained his LL.B degree from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 1982. He attended the Nigerian Law School, Lagos for his BL in 1983. He was appointed a Judge of the High Court of Bauchi State on 17th September 1998 and later elevated to the Court of Appeal on July 16, 2010. He served as the Chairman of the...
PDP ‘ll lose Bayelsa governorship poll to APC, says Timi Frank

PDP ‘ll lose Bayelsa governorship poll to APC, says Timi Frank

Breaking News, News Feature, Politics
A political activist and former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has insisted that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would lose the forthcoming Governorship election in Bayelsa state for “choosing to field a weak candidate.” He therefore congratulated the candidate of the APC in Bayelsa state, David Lyon, ahead of the elections. Frank in a statement in Abuja on Friday, noted that the APC’s candidate is better placed to win the elections in view of the fact that the PDP has curiously chosen to field a weak candidate against the APC’s flag-bearer. “APC will win the forth-coming governorship election in Bayelsa State seeing the weak candidate (Governor Seriake) Dickson and the PDP have chosen as their flag-bearer,” Fra...

Delta Local Government Elections: We won fair and square across Delta State – PDP

Politics
DELTA LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS: WE WON FAIR AND SQUARE ACROSS DELTA STATE - PDP We have read with a huge sense of amusement, the spurious, unfounded and even in some reports, utterly nonsensical rantings of some identified chieftains of the All Progressives Congress, APC over the January 6, 2018 Delta State Local Government elections. To us, these comments are nothing more than the typical whining and bellyaching always expected from sore losers, as a diversionary ploy and smokescreen to cover up their obviously pathetic lack of preparation for the Delta Council polls. We are extremely disappointed but not particularly surprised with the comments of Olorogun O'tega Emerhor, Delta APC leader and former governorship candidate, made from the cozy comforts and surrounding of his cou...
BREAKING NEWS: Atiku Joins PDP

BREAKING NEWS: Atiku Joins PDP

Breaking News, Politics
Atiku Abubakar has formally joined the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, more than a week after he dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress. The former vice-president made the announcement on Facebook within the last hour. He said the complaints he had with the PDP, under which he was vice-president from 1999-2007, had been resolved, laying the groundwork for his return. It is believed that Mr. Abubakar is expected to contest the 2019 presidential election. Details later...
‘Look, Akpabio, I’m not a bastard’ — How Mu’azu opposed plan to reject Buhari’s victory

‘Look, Akpabio, I’m not a bastard’ — How Mu’azu opposed plan to reject Buhari’s victory

Politics
Ahmed Adamu Mu’azu, chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the historic 2015 presidential poll, furiously reacted to suggestions that he should reject Muhammadu Buhari’s victory after President Goodluck Jonathan had openly conceded. Jonathan, after congratulating Buhari in an unprecedented telephone call while the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was yet to officially announce the winner, told party members that although he had conceded to Buhari in his personal capacity, PDP was free to reject the result. Before Jonathan conceded, however, Mu’azu had threatened to do so on behalf of the party. He even stopped picking Jonathan’s calls at some point. All these are snippets of the intrigues that followed Jonathan’s defeat — as narrated by Bolaji...
BREAKING: I don’t have N1bn to give Jonathan, Metuh tells court

BREAKING: I don’t have N1bn to give Jonathan, Metuh tells court

Politics
Embattled former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja not to set aside the subpoena it issued to compel former President Goodluck Jonathan to appear as a witness in his ongoing trial. Metuh further challenged Jonathan’s insistence that the defendant must deposit with the court, for and on behalf of himself, the sum of N1billion in line with provisions of Section 241(2) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015, before he would mount the witness box. Jonathan had in a motion his lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, moved before the court on Wednesday, urged trial Justice Okon Abang to compel Metuh to pay the N1bn to cover travelling expenses for himself and his security personnel from...