Appeal Court throws out APC’s suit against PDP
The Court of Appeal sitting in Asaba has thrown out a suit filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) seeking to sack all 25 local government councils’ chairmen and councilors in Delta State. The APC had challenged the election of the council officials on the grounds that the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) did not conduct valid primaries for its choice of candidates in the March 6, 2021 local government council election in the state. The APC also alleged that DSIEC colluded with PDP without observing the provisions of the DSIEC Law, 2017 In a judgment delivered, yesterday,
PDP chair: Northern governors, leaders split over slot
The zoning crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is yet to abate despite the ceding of the office of national chairman to the North. PDP governors and leaders in the North have become sharply divided on how to micro-zone the offices allocated to the North based on the formula released by Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi Zoning Committee. The chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT), Senator Walid Jibrin, on Thursday cautioned stakeholders against taking sides in the controversy surrounding the zoning of party offices. Attempts on Thursday night to cede the national chairman slot to North-Central
Adeleke didn’t promise me private jet gift -Ooni
Adeleke didn’t promise me private jet gift -Ooni The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, has debunked the rumour that Senator Ademola Adeleke had promised him a private jet gift. This is contained in a statement by the Director of Media and Public Affairs of the Ooni of Ife’s Palace, Moses Olafare, on Friday in Ile-Ife. Olafare admonished the general public to disregard a viral report that stated that a gubernatorial aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ademola Adeleke, during a courtesy visit on Wednesday, promised to procure an aircraft for the Ooni.
Tinubu returns to Nigeria after three-month UK medical trip
The National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, returned to Nigeria on Friday after about three-month medical trip to the United Kingdom, where he underwent a knee surgery. The former Lagos State governor arrived in Lagos barely 24 hours after the incumbent Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, inaugurated the South-West Agenda 2023 (SWAGA ‘23), a group rooting for Tinubu as the APC presidential candidate in the 2023 election. Though Tinubu had yet to declare his intention to contest any office in 2023, there have been rumours and veiled indications that he might be interested in the exalted
