Tag: donald duke
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It’s failure to buy new Jet when Nigerians are hungry- Duke tells Tinubu
Former Governor of Cross River, Donald Duke, says it is a failure of leadership for President Bola Tinubu to buy a new presidential jet and yacht when Nigerians are going through perhaps the worst economic crisis the country has faced since its independence.
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Darkness reigns as poor lighting mars Calabar Carnival
Fun seekers who trooped out in their thousands to witness this year’s Calabar carnival have bemoaned the inability of the government to light up the city, especially the possession routes of the carnival.
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BREAKING: Calabar carnival turns ‘bloody’; 7 dead, many injured
Seven (7) persons have been confirmed dead and twenty-nine (29) others sustained various degrees of injuries in an incident that occurred during the annual Calabar Carnival on Tuesday.
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I feel sorry for next Governor of Cross River – Ex-Gov Duke
Mr Donald Duke, a former governor of Cross River, has said that he felt sorry for the next governor of the state, revealing that such individual would be faced with an uphill task to reinvent governance in the state. He made the remarks at the inauguration of 1,080-member campaign council of the charter of the…
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Donald Duke dumps SDP, returns to PDP
The former governor of Cross River State Donald Duke has returned to the Peoples Democratic Party. The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party Caretaker Committee in Cross River State, Effiok Cobham, disclosed this on Wednesday at a press briefing in Calabar. When asked to confirm the speculations that the former Governor had returned to the…
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Give me 12 hours to clear my N537m debt, Donald Duke begs court
A former Cross River State Governor Donald Duke on Monday told a Federal High Court in Lagos that he would pay his N537, 334,360.77 debts to Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) in less than 12 hours. Duke, through his counsel, Mr Edoigiawerie Omoruyi, told Justice Nicholas Oweibo that he had approached AMCON with a…
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Jerry Gana reacts to S’Court ruling affirming Donald Duke as SDP presidential candidate
Presidential aspirant under the platform of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, Prof. Jerry Gana, has said he was disappointed by the Supreme Court’s judgment that declared a former governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke, the authentic presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party. While Duke emerged the candidate of the party, a lower court…
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BREAKING: Supreme Court upholds Donald Duke as SDP presidential candidate
The Supreme Court in Abuja on Friday upheld the Court of Appeal judgment declaring Donald Duke, as the Social Democratic Party’s (SDP) presidential candidate. The judgment was delivered by the Supreme Court presided over by Justices Ejembi Eko, Kudirat Kekere, Amiru Sanusi, Paul Galumje and Uwani Aji. The court also awarded N3 million in favour…
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2019: 36 SDP state chairmen reject Gana, insist on Duke as presidential candidate
The 36 state party chairmen of the Social Democratic Party, including that of the Federal Capital Territory have rejected the Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf-led court order which declared Prof. Jerry Gana as the presidential candidate of the party. An FCT High Court had on Friday declared Gana the winner of the presidential primary of the SDP…
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2019: Donald Duke loses as court declares Jerry Gana SDP’s presidential flag bearer
An FCT High Court in Maitama on Friday declared, a former Minister of Information, Prof. Jerry Gana, the winner of the presidential primary election of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) conducted on Oct. 6. The party had declared a former Governor of Cross River, Mr Donald Duke, the winner of the election and its flag…