Governorship Election: Osun Belong To PDP - Sambo

“I  Namadi Sambo want to assure you that the mandate that was taken through the back door will come back to PDP.”

Vice President has said that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will reclaim Osun State, which was taken “through the back door’’ by the All Progressives Congress, APC.

Mr. Sambo spoke on Wednesday in Abuja at a meeting of the PDP National Campaign Committee for the Osun State governorship election scheduled for August 9.

The meeting, according to the vice president, is to mobilise and strategise on how the ruling party will win the election.

“I want to assure you that the mandate that was taken through the back door will come back to PDP, as it was seen after the election in Ekiti State.

“The people will now have the chance to choose for themselves, where they belong, which is the PDP,’’ he said.

The vice president, who spoke before the meeting went into close door, added that the PDP was prepared to repeat the victory it recorded in the June 21 Ekiti governorship election.

“We all know that Osun belong to PDP, those people there now, never went through a successful election,’’ he said.

Nyako impeachment: PDP cautions APC against inciting the people

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has warned the All Progressives Congress, APC, to desist from making comments that will incite Nigerians.

The PDP’s statement followed developments trailing the impeachment of former Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako.

In a statement signed by the PDP’s national publicity secretary, Olisa Metuh, the party said, “Our attention has been drawn to yet another inflammatory address by the National Chairman of the APC, John Odigie-Oyegun wherein he resorted to wild and unfounded allegations to cause confusion and incite the people against the President, the PDP and institutions of government.

“While we do not wish to join issues with a party that has become notorious for falsehood, deceit and blackmail, we wish to alert Nigerians that this is part of the orchestrated plot by the APC to discredit and blackmail institutions of government, particularly the legislature, the citadel of democracy and stronghold of the will of the people and ultimately set the stage to destabilize the polity.

“We note that this onslaught against the legislature is not spontaneous.

“Nigerians may indeed recall the vicious attack on the National Assembly early this year wherein the APC also raised a false alarm that federal lawmakers were
being induced with millions of dollars to defect to the PDP.

“We invite Nigerians to note the anti-democratic and anti-Nigeria actions of the APC.

“Indeed, never in the history of this country has an opposition constituted itself into a rebellion against our dear nation and its corporate existence”.

Fashola scolds PDP over use of Gani Park

Lagos State governor,Babatunde Fashola  yesterday, berated the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for storming the Gani Fawehinmi Park for a political rally, saying the party had always been vocal in criticising his government for building parks and gardens in the state.

Fashola, who faulted the party’s decision to stage a rally at the popular park constructed by Lagos State government in Eti- Osa local council development area, , last Friday, said the state government was able to create about 28,094 jobs between 2008 and 2013 from tree planting initiative despite accusation that the project was elitist.

Fashola at a tree-planting campaign entitled ‘Life Is Better With Trees’ said: “You will recall that the Gani Fawehinmi Park is one of the products of this Greening and Tree Planting initiative.

There was no park there until we started it in 2012. “When people rallied at that park in Ojota, to protest the anti-people policy of the subsidy removal by our opponents early in the New Year of 2012, people who went there to protest, to rally against this policy, were repelled by heavily armed security personnel.

Osun 2014: Omisore Afraid of His Shadows - APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has  accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, of deploying masked gunmen as security men during his ongoing electioneering for the August 9 election in the state.

The party wondered why uniformed or plain-cloth policemen as well as State Security Service (SSS) personnel are suddenly not good enough for  Omisore.

In a statement issued yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the only reason Omisore could have resorted to hiring ‘ninjas’ for protection is because he is afraid of his own shadows.

It wondered how a man who wanted to rule a state would be afraid to move freely among the same people whose votes his is canvassing, saying the PDP candidate should emulate the state Governor Rauf Aregbesola, who is barely distinguishable from the ordinary citizens of the state.

‘’Every month, Aregbesola leads the people of the state in a jogging exercise on the streets, during which he mixes freely with them. Not once has a ‘ninja’ been spotted behind him in the name of security.

Ekiti 2014: Crisis Brews Over PDP Guber Primaries

As the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) prepares for the Ekiti governorship election billed for June 21, plots to install a consensus candidate seems to be generating fresh crisis within the party.

 While the national secretariat of PDP has slated March 15 as the date for primary election for the emergence of governorship candidate, some aspirants of the party from the state are determined to ensure the emergence of a consensus candidate, saying it has the blessing of the presidency.

 It was gathered that those aspirants will tomorrow meet with the national leadership of PDP, under Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu to advance their position for the adoption of a consensus candidate for the governorship election.