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PDP To Buhari, Presidency: You Can’t Gag Nigerians, Your Woes Self-Inflicted

Daily Dispatch April 14, 2018

The Peoples Democratic Party has berated the Buhari Presidency for what it called its arrogance in insulting Nigerians who criticized its failures in the handling of insurgency as well as the governance of the nation. The position of the party was contained in a statement by its National

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2019: Igbos will benefit more under Buhari – APC chieftain

Daily Dispatch April 14, 2018

Chief Uche Ogar, a former governorship candidate under the All Progressive Congress in Abia State says that Igbos will benefit more under President Muhammadu Buhari if he emerges in 2019. Ogar told the News Agency of Nigeria in Enugu on Saturday in Enugu that the president had revived some projects abandoned by the immediate past administration in […]

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Akwa Ibom governor’s aide joins APC

Daily Dispatch April 13, 2018

Mr. Ibanga Etang, an aide to Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State, has defected to the All Progressive Congress. A few months ago, the governor’s Special Assistant on Electoral Matters, Mr. Chris Okorie, also dumped the People’s Democratic Party for APC. Emmanuel was elected on the platform of PDP. Etang, a former chairman of […]

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Shehu Sani: Kaduna government concealing mass killings in state

Daily Dispatch April 12, 2018

Shehu Sani, the senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial district in the National Assembly has raised the alarm over killings and kidnappings in the state. Sani accused the Kaduna state government of concealing massive killing of citizens in the state, adding that the state is unsafe as Benue and Taraba which are currently being controlled by […]

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Asset forfeiture case: A Political witch-hunt- Ekweremadu

Daily Dispatch April 12, 2018

Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has described as political witch-hunt by an illegal body, the assets’ forfeiture case launched against him. Uche Anichukwu, media aide to Ekweremadu said it was against natural justice for lawyers of the All Progressives Congress, APC, extraction to constitute themselves into a panel to try members of […]

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Appeal Court affirms Fayose’s faction as authentic PDP in Ekiti

Daily Dispatch April 11, 2018

The Appeal court sitting in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State on Wednesday affirmed the election of Governor Ayodele Fayose’s loyalist, Barrister Gboyega Oguntuase-led executive as the authentic leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State. The court quashed the earlier judgement given by Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court in Ado Ekiti, which […]