Tag: PDP Crisis
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Crisis: PDP BoT members speak on Wike’s presence, way forward for party after meeting in Abuja
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BoT) is to set up a committee to resolve the internal leadership crisis rocking the party. Former Senate President, Sen. David Mark, while briefing newsmen on the outcome of the board’s meeting held on Thursday in Abuja, described the meeting as cordial and fruitful. Mark said that…
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JUST IN: David Mark, Anyim Pius Anyim, 25 other PDP elders wade into party crisis, call for calm
A former Senate President David Mark and 27 other elders have made known their intentions to wade in the crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). They said they will soon meet with PDP Governors, the Board of Trustees, and the National Working Committee (NWC) to find lasting solutions to the fundamental matters arising. But…
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Too late for Atiku to resolve Kogi PDP crisis -Adeyemi
Senator Smart Adeyemi has said that it is too late for Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar to resolve the crisis in the Kogi State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP Major PDP stakeholders in the state, including some contenders in the September 3 governorship primaries, have continued to quarrel over the outcome of the…
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PDP crisis: Fayose, Wike, Bode George, others storm S/Court
The Supreme Court will soon today deliver a judgment on the leadership crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) since it lost in the 2015 presidential election. The legal dispute is between the Ali Modu Sheriff faction affirmed by the Port Harcourt Division of the Court of Appeal, and the Chairman of the National Caretaker…
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PDP Crisis: I might quit if Supreme Court affirms Sheriff as chairman – Wike
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has said he might quit his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, should the Supreme Court rule in favour of Senator Ali Modu Sheriff as the National Chairman of the party. The governor revealed this while featuring on a monitored programme on Channels Television. Wike noted that he…
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JUST IN: PDP Crisis: S’Court rule in favour of Makarfi
The Supreme Court on Monday struck out application by the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ali Modu Sheriff, seeking to stop the party’s appeal against him. The Justice Walter Onnoghen-led court consequently granted the appeal filed by the sacked Caretaker Committee Chairman of the party, Ahmed Makarfi on behalf of PDP. TheNewsGuru.com…
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PDP crisis: Supreme Court adjourns case, orders for written arguments
The Supreme Court, on Thursday adjourned the hearing on the objection filed by the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ali Modu Sheriff, against the appeal filed before the court by the Ahmed Makarfi’s faction of the party. The case has been adjourned till May 25, 2017 for further hearing. The motion brought before…
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PDP crisis: Sheriff pulls out of Jonathan’s reconciliation move
The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff said he was pulling out the reconciliation move of the former President Goodluck Jonathan to resolve the party’s leadership crisis. Sheriff in a statement signed by his Deputy National Chairman, Dr Cairo Ojougboh issued on Thursday in Abuja, said this was to enable his…
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PDP Crisis: We will not appeal verdict of Appeal Court – Sheriff faction
The Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it will not approach the Supreme Court to appeal the outcome of the expected Court of Appeal judgment on the party’s leadership crisis. The National Deputy Chairman of the faction, Dr Cairo Ojougboh, made the pledge this when he addressed newsmen on Monday in…