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Support Damagum or leave party, elected PDP deputies tell opponents

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Support Damagum or leave party, elected PDP deputies tell opponents

Elected deputies of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Working Committee (NWC) have voiced their support for the party’s acting national chairman, Amb. Umar Damagum, asserting that he will remain in office until December 2025.

Speaking at a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday, the Deputy National Youth Leader, Comrade Timothy Osadolor, criticized calls for Damagum’s removal, urging dissenting voices to accept his leadership or leave the party.

Osadolor, joined by four other deputies, emphasized the need for unity within the PDP, stating that internal pride and blame games have contributed to the party’s current challenges.

“It is time for leaders to set aside personal interests and acknowledge their roles in the party’s predicament. Only by working together can the PDP reclaim its glory,” Osadolor remarked.

He said, “From 2013 to date, personal ambitions have driven us to heights of pure mischief and arrogant use of power.

“This has led to agreements not being kept and the ambiguities in our Constitution being exploited by those in position, even through the courts.

“We are all complicit by being perpetrators, supporters, or silent. No one is coming to save us; we must stand up and become heroes; we brought ourselves here.

“This is no longer the time for a blame game; all have sinned. From the BOT chairman, who endorsed an opposition governor, to candidates that negotiated and supported other party candidates in promises to get their return support, to NWC members and leaders that lost their polling units.

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“We must all come down from our high horses, forget pride for now, and join hands with the party as led by Amb. Illya Damagum to reposition this party back to winning ways.

“Court distractions and media demarketing of the PDP must stop forthwith. You do not need to like the officers, but the party is more important.

“If you want to resign and go, be a proper opposition; do not be here and go from TV house to radio house abusing the party

“The case of the acting national chairman is settled till December 2025, and on that of the National Secretary, we wait on the courts. Let’s learn to love and support PDP first and always.”

Osadolor maintained that the PDP is not only dealing with the tyranny of the All Progressives Congress-led federal government against the party and Nigerians but that it is equally dealing with the disillusionment of members across the country and beyond.

He listed some of the reasons for this situation to include distrust, insincerity, lack of firm enforcement of agreements, self-serving interests, and unnecessary eye service that is laced with smooth tongues.

Osadolor further chided unnamed party leaders whom he accused of lurking behind the scenes to cause misunderstanding within the party.

“This behaviour is apparently self-serving on their part, as it is not in the interest of the PDP in any way. It is ethically and morally wrong for members of the party to move around creating confusion instead of exploring our internal mechanism for peace,” he added.

Present at the briefing were Deputy National Youth Leader Timothy Osadolor, Deputy National Publicity Secretary Ibrahim Abdullahi, Deputy National Financial Secretary Ndubisi Eneh, and National Deputy Organising Secretary Pascal Adigwe.

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Activist Senator Shehu Sani returns to APC with 49 others

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Former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani

Activist Senator Shehu Sani returns to APC with 49 others

Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State has welcomed to the All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator Shehu Sani and other prominent politicians in Kaduna.

Gov Sani also assured Shehu Sani and the other 49 political stalwarts that defected to the APC that they would enjoy the same rights and privileges like every other members of the party.

The Governor spoke when he addressed a mammoth crowd of the party’s supporters at the Murtala Square at a mega rally held on Saturday.

Sani said that there was no any difference between a party member that joined it recently and the ones that have been in APC ten years ago.

He said: ‘’Someone who joined APC today and the one who has been a foundation member 10 years ago, they are of the same status. They will enjoy the same rights and privileges.”

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Sani urged the decampees to notify their supporters of the readiness of APC to accept them into the party as their doors were still open to accept more defectors.

According to him, the popularity and acceptability of APC is because of the its just leadership at both the state and federal levels.

Sani added that the party has come to stay in Kaduna State, the entire North and Nigeria as a whole.
‘’In the 2027 election, the electorate will vote for APC in all the elections, from top to bottom.
“At the top, our leader, President Bola Tinubu will be elected.

“At the state level, the party will be voted for at the gubernatorial, National and State Assemblies elections, by the Grace of God,’’ he said.

The Governor promised that more projects would be executed in all the nooks and crannies of the state, irrespective of party affiliations and ethno-religious considerations.

‘’Politics is different from governance. We will be fair to all, whether or not they voted for us, because that is the oath of office that we swore to uphold as leaders,’’ he further said.

Activist Senator Shehu Sani returns to APC with 49 others

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Buhari, governor vote in Katsina local govt election 

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Buhari, governor vote in Katsina local govt election 

 

Former President Muhammadu Buhari has voted in the ongoing local government election in Katsina State.

He voted at Polling Unit 003, Sarkin Yarn Ward A of Daura at 11:09am alongside the state Commissioner for Special Duties, Adnan Na-Habu Daura.

Katsina State Governor, Dikko Radda, and his wife, Zulaihat, also cast their votes on Saturday in the local government election.

The governor and his wife voted around 11:45am at the Kofar Katika Polling Unit in Radda Ward of Charanchi Local Government Area.

Radda said he was impressed with the large turnout of voters, adding that this was a testament that democracy had come to maturity in the state.

“I believe that at the end of the exercise, with the kind of projects executed since we came on board, we believe so much in APC and APC will come out victorious. People should expect their votes to count,” Radda said.

 

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Osun LG poll is illegal, APC won’t participate, says Oyetola

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Osun LG poll is illegal, APC won’t participate, says Oyetola

The All Progressives Congress(APC), Osun State has declared that it would boycott the forthcoming local government poll scheduled for February 22, following the Court of Appeal verdict reinstating its sacked members back to their offices.

 It will be recalled that APC members were elected at the twilight of the administration of Adegboyega Oyetola in 2022 in a controversial ‘Yes or No’ election, which the Federal High Court declared illegal.

Subsequently, Governor Ademola Adeleke sacked the council bosses in November 2022, hence the matter was taken to Court of Appeal where the matter was resolved in favour of APC on Monday. However, the Osun Independent Electoral Commission(OSIEC) had fixed February 22nd for the election.

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Meanwhile, the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola who is the leader of APC in Osun State on Friday announced that the party will boycott the election noting they ‘any election after the Court of Appeal verdict is illegal. We can’t be part of such.”

Speaking at the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign office on Friday, Oyetola said: “We will not participate in any LG election, it is illegal, tell them to obey the court order first because as it is, the council positions are not vacant, hence no need for another election.

“Our chairmen will resume their respective offices with all instruments of law. The court of Appeal verdict will be implemented. I want to urge all the chairmen and councillors not to fight them, we are a peace-loving party.”

 He charged the reinstated council Excos that “Go home and be rejoicing, I will come and greet you all in your respective offices.”

 Earlier, the State Chairman of APC, Tajudeen Lawal lauded Oyetola for providing leadership for the party and supporting the course of the court matter which reinstated members of the party to 30 Osun councils.

Osun LG poll is illegal, APC won’t participate, says Oyetola

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