JUST IN: PDP Splits, Wike Leads Southern Caucus As Crisis Degenerates

The internal crisis rocking the Nigeria’s leading opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reportedly worsened. The party, Platforms Africa reports, has been in the ctisis since when governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike lost the presidential ticket of the party for next year’s presidential election, during its primaries in May this year. Nigerian Tribune, oldest surviving newspaper in the country, is reporting that the party has split down the middle along North-South divide, even ahead of the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting scheduled for Thursday this week, to review the state of…

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BREAKING: Real Reasons I Chose Okowa Ahead Wike, Others as Running Mate — Atiku

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the 2023 elections in Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has offered reasons why he chose the Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, as his running mate. Abubakar offered the reasons at the unveiling of Okowa at the National Secretariat of the party in Abuja on Thursday. At the ceremony, which was attended by all members of the National Working Committee of the party, the former Vice President said that he needed a strong deputy who can help him in correcting the ills the All…

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Eyeball to eyeball: How AbdulRazaq, Saraki worshipped at same Eid ground

How supporters of the two heavyweights in Kwara politics took politics to Eid   Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State; former Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki; and Senator Ibrahim Oloriegbe on Tuesday joined thousands of other Muslims who worshipped at the Eid praying ground in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. The three prominent citizens observed the two raka’ats prayer to commemorate this year’s Eid-el-Kabir. AbdulRazaq and Oloriegbe, who are in the same camp in the factionalised Kwara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, are known political enemies of…

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