The 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar has warned against any attempt to rig next week’s governorship election in Edo State. Atiku warned that Edo is not Lagos where, according to him, election can be rigged by the All Progressives Congress, APC. He spoke in Ekemwan area of Edo State […]
Edo State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chairman Anthony Aziegbemi and the party’s candidate, Asue Ighodalo, who were present during the signing of the Peace Accord, declined to sign. Aziegbemi told newsmen that they were declining because 10 members of the party were currently being detained by the police in Abuja. It would be recalled that […]
The committee, led by a former Foreign Affairs Minister, Tom Ikimi, was set up to address and manage all disciplinary matters. Wike, a former governor of Rivers State, and others were reportedly summoned by the party to appear before the panel following a series of petitions against them bordering on allegations of anti-party activities and […]
This was following the autonomy granted to Local Governments by the Supreme Court. The committees were constituted on June 9, 2023 when the Governor sacked the former council chairmen. The Governor in a statement directed the Directors of Personnel Management, DPMs, to assume responsibility for the administration of the local government areas until elections hold […]
The protest which began at the Jolly Nyame stadium last week following the alleged imposition of the former Commissioner of Information and Reorientation, Lois Emmanuel, as the Women leader of the party continued. Armed with placards of various inscriptions, the protesting women said Lois was imposed on them by some elements of the party. The […]
In a letter to his Ward 10 chairman in Akoko-Edo local government area dated September 2nd 2024, Agbaje complained of alienation and alleged sidelining in the scheme of the things in the party and his Ward 10. Agbaje was the only APC lawmaker in the state house of Assembly besides the 14 that were not […]
Edo guber: Ighodalo sues Oshiomhole over alleged defamatory comments
Afinju FM 17 September 2024
Ighodalo slammed the former governor with a N20 billion lawsuit. The governorship candidate, through his counsel, Ayo Asala ,SAN, & Associates, also sought an immediate retraction and apology for the false, defamatory, and malicious comments which should be published in at least two National Television Networks and three nationally circulating newspapers. He noted that the […]