Edo deputy governor, Philip Shaibu, has declared that the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has won the governorship poll.

The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has revealed that up till now, the President Muhammadu Buhari government has not refunded the State the money it approved some months ago.

Chief Bode George, a former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has blasted Ayodele Fayose, a former Governor of Ekiti State, accusing him of saying that Governor Godwin Obaseki will lose the forthcoming governorship election in Edo State.

The former chairman of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency NMASA board Lt. Col. Kefas Agbu rtd, on Wednesday emerged the chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP Taraba State chapter.

Kefas alongside other executive members of the party in the state were elected as sole candidates at Jolly Nyame Stadium in Jalingo Taraba State capital.

The election of the new executive of the party followed the expiration of the tenure of the former chairman of the party in the state Hon. Victor Bala Kona and his executive members.

After due consultations among the party stakeholders, the sole candidature of Kefas and his team of executive members were accepted.

The former chairman of the party Victor Bala Kona while presenting the new executive members to the convention said he was confident that the Agbu Kefas led team would continue to win elections in the state and further reclaim all the few elected seats the party has lost to opposition parties across the state.

In his acceptance speech, the PDP chairman Lt. Col. Agbu Kefas assured the party members of an open door administration and an all-inclusive policy to sell the party’s manifesto to the people of the state.

Gov. Darius Ishaku of Taraba State in a brief remark at the occasion expressed confidence in the Kefas led executive and promised his administration’s full support to the party for development in the state.

The state convention was conducted without in the absence of the deputy minority leader at the Senate and the Senator representing Taraba South, Sen. Emmanuel Bwacha, the recent past speaker Taraba state house of assembly and member representing Mbamga state constituency at the state assembly, Hon. Peter Abel Diah.

Others who were conspicuously absent at the PDP state convention in Jalingo include the former speaker of the state house of assembly and member representing Takum II Hon. Mark Useni and his counterpart from Takum I Hon. Garba Ajiya, member representing Karim Lamido I at the state house of assembly Hon. Charles Maijankai, Josiah Aji of Wukari I And Pius Sabo of Wukari II.

The duo was reported to have petitioned the process of the convention to the national secretariat of the party in Abuja but lost out.

The Arewa Youths Consultative Forum, AYCF, has berated the President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government over Nigeria’s current debt profile.

The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has sworn in the newly reelected chairman of the party in Enugu State, Hon. Augustine Nnamani and other 38 members of the State Executives (EXCO) who were also elected during the party’s state congress, held in Enugu, on August 8, 2020.

The crisis rocking the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Cross River State took a more dangerous dimension as councillorship candidates took to protest on Tuesday.

The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP), has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to adjust its timetable for Edo and Ondo governorship elections.

Chairman, Caretaker Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Governor Mai Mala Buni, has approved the appointment of Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, to chair the Campaign Council for the Ondo State governorship election.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Kaduna State chapter, on Monday, lifted the suspension on Sen. Suleiman Hunkuyi, Dr Matoh Dogara and five other top members of the party.