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You Can’t Censor The Media, PDP Tells Lai Mohammed …Insists FG, APC Peddling Cooked-Up Performance Indices

Daily Dispatch February 22, 2018

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Thursday warned the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government against censoring the media in a bid to downplay the failures of government. The main opposition party, which described Buhari’s government as “incompetent”, said there is an attempt to

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Senator Ali Wakili questions Abdullahi Adamu’s removal as Northern Senators Forum chairman

Daily Dispatch February 22, 2018

Members of the Northern Senators Forum never held a meeting to discuss the removal of Abdullahi Adamu as its chairman, a member of the forum, Ali Wakili, has said. Mr. Wakili, representing Bauchi South, said he got to know about the removal from the media. Mr. Adamu, a former governor of Nasarawa state, was removed […]

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We are threaten by the Coalition of Nigeria, they are Obasanjo’s friend not political party- Makarfi

Daily Dispatch February 22, 2018

Senator Ahmed Makarfi​, former chairman, National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP​, has given an insight into the movement being promoted by ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo. ​Describing the movement as ‘coalition of Obasanjo’, he noted the group is not a political party​. Makarfi explained that the agenda of the movement is to gather a […]

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Yobe Senators clash over missing school girls

Daily Dispatch February 22, 2018

The Senate leader, Ahmed Lawan, representing Yobe North Senatorial district and his counterpart, Mohammed Hassan of Yobe South Senatorial engaged each other in verbal attacks over Yobe missing school girls on Thursday. Trouble started when a point of order was raised by the former governor of Yobe, Senator Bukar Abba Ibrahim, through order 43 drawing […]

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PDP expresses shock over alleged missing Dapchi schoolgirls

Daily Dispatch February 21, 2018

The Peoples Democratic Party says it is shocked by reports that 94 Nigerian female students have been declared missing after insurgents attacked the Girls Secondary School, Dapchi, Yobe State on Tuesday. A statement issued by the spokesman for the party, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja on Wednesday, says the former ruling party is very disturbed […]

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APC carpets PDP for saying INEC works for Buhari govt

Daily Dispatch February 21, 2018

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has reacted to comments by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is working in favour of the Buhari government. APC spokesman, Bolaji Abdullahi, in a statement of Wednesday, said in the name of playing opposition, the PDP has typically chosen to launch itself back into […]