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2019: Makarfi, Ali disagree on PDP zoning

Daily Dispatch October 11, 2017

Former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Ahmadu Ali and the caretaker chairman Ahmed Makarfi, have taken different stances on the party’s zoning for 2019 presidency. PDP has zoned its chairmanship slot to the South and the presidential ticket reserved for aspirants

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Fani-Kayode blasts Junaid Mohammed for calling IPOB members “bastards”

Daily Dispatch October 11, 2017

Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has lashed out at Second Republic lawmaker, Junaid Mohammed, who has described the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as “bastards” , if they can’t cause another civil war in their struggle to actualize Biafra. Fani-Kayode, in a tweet on Tuesday, warned Mohammed not to use “this type of languge. He wrote: […]

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Why I will keep pushing for single-tenure Presidency – Ekweremadu

Daily Dispatch October 11, 2017

The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has explained why he is maintaining his advocacy for a single-term presidency of five or six years for Nigeria and other African countries. According to him, single tenure Presidency would deepen democracy and good governance in the continent. Ekweremadu spoke while delivering a lecture entitled: ‘Constitutionalism and the

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2019: We’re ready to die says Wike

Daily Dispatch October 10, 2017

The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, says he is ready to lay down his life if it will ensure victory for the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2019 general elections. Wike said this in the latest issue of ‘The Interview,’ a monthly magazine. The governor said one of the reasons the then President, Goodluck Jonathan, […]

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APC chieftain demands sack of Trade and Investment Minister over IPOB …Says 85% Abia youths are jobless

Daily Dispatch October 9, 2017

A serving ex-officio of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Chief Nduka Anyanwu, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari, to urgently sack the Minister Trade and Investment Okechukwu Enelama and other non-performing cabinet members from the South-east for their inability to quell the agitation by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The APC national

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YEWAS ARE NOT MINORITY IN OGUN STATE- Sen. Adeola

Daily Dispatch October 8, 2017

The Senate Committee Chairman on Local Content, Senator Solomon Adeola aka Yayi has said that the people of Yewa in Ogun West Senatorial District of Ogun state are not a minority tribe as generally believed as it is internal and international political boundaries that had seperated the people into different countries, states and local governments […]