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BREAKING: Jandor Dumps PDP

The 2023 Lagos State governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Olajide Adediran, popularly known as Jandor has resigned his membership from the opposition party. While tendering his resignation in a letter at a press conference in Ikeja, Jandor noted that his next move would be known in a few months. Jandor, a Nigerian...
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Obasa Returns As Speaker Of Lagos Assembly

The impeached Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa has finally returned as the Speaker, following the closed-door meeting held before the plenary on Monday, March 3. New Telegraph reports that Obasa’s reinstatement followed the Mojisola Meranda’s resignation as the substantive Speaker of the House amid January’s impeachment. Mojisola has publicily...
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Meranda Resigns As Speaker Of Lagos Assembly

Amid the ongoing leadership crisis in the Lagos State House of Assembly, the incumbent and first female Speaker in the history of Lagos State, Mojisola Meranda, has stepped down, giving way to the impeached Speaker, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa is to be reinstated. New Telegraph recalls that the leadership crisis in the state Assembly became...
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Ex-Gov Accuses APC Of Alleged One-Party State

Former governor of Ekiti State and chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Tunji Odeyemi, has accused the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) of nursing a mission of turning Nigeria to a One-Party State at the expense of Democracy. Odeyemi, who spoke on Monday, urged Nigerians to vehemently resist the attempt in the interest of...
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Calabar Congress Not Valid- Diri

The Governor of Bayelsa State, Douye Diri, has said the report of the purported congress of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) held in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, has been rejected by the national leadership, adding that a new date would be fixed for the zonal congress. The governor also stated that the PDP...
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Choose Between PDP, APC Administration- Group Tells Wike

The Conference of Professionals in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), an interest group within the party, has called on the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, to choose between the party and serving in the All Progressives Congress (APC) government. The group also called for Wike’s removal from President Bola Tinubu’s cabinet...
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Electoral Offences: INEC And Prosecution Burden

FELIX NWANERI writes on the burden of prosecution of electoral offenders, on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), which has rekindled calls for the establishment of an Electoral Offences Commission Nigeria has a chequered history of electoral violence and other related offences. However, from electoral violence t o ballot snatching and stuffing, the drift at...
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