2019: PDP Presidential Ticket For North, Excludes Hausa/Fulani

Barrister Mark Nzamah Jacob, was Kaduna state Commissioner of Justice and Attorney General (2005-2007) before he became the National Legal Adviser of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP (2007-2009). He played powerful roles in the 2011 general elections as one of the key players in the Neighbour -2-Neighbour campaign that retained then resident Goodluck Jonathan in Power.

Abuja Bombings: DSS Not In Full Grip Of Nigeria’s Security Intelligence – PDP

Reacting to the last Friday’s multiple suicide bombings in Nyanya and Kuje areas of Abuja which killed at least 15 people, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday blamed the leadership of the Department for State Security (DSS), saying the agency is not in full grip of Nigeria’s security intelligence.
In a statement signed by the party’s acting national chairman, Uche Secondus, the party condemned the resurgence of terrorism and renewed attacks at the FCT.
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We are behind Saraki - PDP

The National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh, says they are solidly behind embattled Senate President Saraki and that they are not shopping for a replacement for him. "We have no candidate for the office of the Senate President, because we have a fit person occupying the position for now. We are behind him and we can’t abandon him just because he is undergoing trial. Anybody can be put on trial, but the question we should ask is whether the trial is political or not. Does the trial have merit? When we see the merit of the case, we will take position. But for now, there is nothing like that.”he told Punch

I’m Joining APC, PDP Shut Me Out Long Ago –Ndoma-Egba

In this interview with MUDIAGA AFFE, the immediate past Senate Leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, speaks on the amendment of Senate Rules, allowances for legislators and his planned defection, among other sundry issues

We’ll never hang Buhari’s portrait in our offices –PDP

The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has refused to hang the official portrait of President Muhammadu Buhari at the party’s national secretariat, checks by The PUNCH have revealed.
Over 100 days after the President assumed office, the PDP has yet to hang his portrait at any of the offices in its Wadata House national secretariat, located at Zone 5, Abuja.

APC is suffering the consequences of the greed - PDP Publicity Secretary, Metuh

The Publicity Secretary of PDP, Olisa Metuh says the development of Senator Bukola Saraki and Hon. 

Yakubu Dogara as the new leaders of the National Assembly which is against their party wishes, implies that APC is not all well prepared to handle the undertakings of government at the center. In the announcement he released today June 10th, Mr Metuh said the APC is just suffering from the greed, desire for power and extreme aspirations of the party's leaders.
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PDP does not have respect for democracy – Araraume

Former governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Imo State, Senator Ifeanyi Araraume, has described the PDP as encouraging a culture of impunity, adding that the party does not respect democracy.

He said this on Saturday  while addressing members of his campaign organisation, Destiny Organisation, in Owerri.

He said, “PDP is gone; the culture of impunity is gone. PDP does not respect democracy and that is what we should be against; the era of imposing candidates on the people is gone.”

PDP's statement: PDP NWC not in dispute with Governors - PDP

There were reports in some dailies today that PDP Chairman Adamu Mu-Azu has been asked to resign and that he and other PDP National Working Committee members who attended a meeting yesterday were asked to go out  by some governors before the official end of the meeting.

PDP has released a statement denying there was a dispute or that Mu'azu was asked to resign. The statement below...

PDP accuses APC of planning to rig the election - Read statement

Text of press conference by the Director of Media and Publicity, PDP presidential campaign organization, Femi Fani-Kayode.  

Ladies and gentlemen of the press, It is with a heavy heart that we are compelled to share with the Nigerian public the following sensitive information which we believe, if not handled properly and looked into, is serious enough to affect the outcome of Saturday’s presidential election in a negative way. 

Before we go into detail permit me to make an important assertion which cannot be overstated or over-emphasised. That assertion is as follows: the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation and our candidate President Goodluck Jonathan are not in the least bit worried about what the outcome of Saturday’selection will be. We believe that we have the backing and full support of the Nigerian people and we believe that we shall not only win but that we shall win convincingly.  

DSS Findings On APC: ‘We Have Been Vindicated’ - PDP

Find the PDP press statement below...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said it has been vindicated by the shocking findings made by the State Security Services of the plot by the APC to compromise the electoral process, hack into INEC’s data base and rig the February general elections.
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PDP Worried As Obasanjo Meets With Yoruba Women From 6 States Today

Hundreds of Yoruba women to be led by all the “Iyalodes” from across the six states of the South-west will converge on the Hill Top residence of former President Olusegun Obasanjo this Monday [Jan. 5] in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. Indications emerged yesterday that the meeting conveyed under the auspices of the former president with all the Iyalodes and concerned women from the zone was not unconnected with next month’s general election. Obasanjo has been having a running battle with the incumbent President, Goodluck Jonathan over his second term ambition.

Don’t dump PDP, Jonathan begs aggrieved aspirants

President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday appealed to all the Peoples Democratic Party aspirants who are aggrieved as a result of the outcome of its primaries across the country not to leave the party.

He said the party leadership was working hard to resolve the conflicts thrown up by the primaries in many states.

Jonathan spoke at the PDP Fund Raising Dinner, held at the old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

PDP To APC -- Enough Is Enough.

Chief Olisa Metuh finished apc with this statement
“Nigerians have waited for too long for the APC's roadmap with convention after convention (two in less than a month) producing only humbug, claptrap and a regurgitation of worn-out, anachronistic clichés.
APC is a disgrace.
There is no occasion they won't talk about GEJ or FG, it baffles me to see them speak more about GEJ and PDP, instead of selling themselves and telling us their roadmap.
Okay nah.