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Former Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Sani Sidi has returned to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Sidi decamped to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna state after he lost the PDP governorship ticket to Isa Ashiru in 2019. The former NEMA DG, was re-issued with the PDP member card…

The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), has said that the federal government will effect a court judgment which ordered the removal of section 84 (12) of the amended Electoral Act, 2022. On February 25, President Muhammadu Buhari assented to the electoral act amendment bill passed by the National Assembly. However, while assenting to the bill,…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has announced the sale of its nomination and expression of interest forms for the 2023 general elections. In a communique issued on Wednesday at the end of its 95th National Executive Committee (NEC) in Abuja, the party also approved guidelines for the conduct of primary elections as well as Timetable…

The Kaduna state government has directed public servants and political appointees aspiring to contest for elective positions in the 2023 elections to resign from their positions before March 31, 2022. The directive which was contained in a memo signed by the Secretaryto the State Government (SSG), Balarabe Lawal, noted that the recent Electoral Act 2022,…

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has asked members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to unite and work as a team to win the 2023 elections as the party cannot afford to loose the elections. The former Vice President stated this while addressing members of the Board of Trustees (BOT) of the party, on Wednesday…