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Confusion As Newly Elected Benue PDP Officials Arrive At Locked Secretariat

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1 year ago

October 4, 2024

The newly elected Benue State Working Committee members of the Peoples Democratic Party were left stranded on Friday when they arrived at the party secretariat along Otukpo Road to assume office, only to find it locked.

Three weeks ago, the immediate past governor of the state, Samuel Ortom, through his media aide, Terver Akase, stated that he had provided one of his buildings located in the High-Level area of Makurdi to the party. This followed claims by the caretaker committee members that they had been forced out of the party secretariat.

The original secretariat was donated to the party by former governor Gabriel Suswam. However, Suswam’s media aide, Mede Bartholomew, dismissed the claim that the caretaker committee had been evicted, saying there was no evidence to suggest such an occurrence.

When the new party leadership arrived at the old secretariat on Friday to receive handover notes from the caretaker committee, they found the premises locked. All efforts by the newly elected PDP Chairman, Ezekiel Adaji, to determine why the secretariat was closed were unsuccessful.

Adaji managed to reach the caretaker committee secretary by phone and was informed that the committee had also just learned that the secretariat was locked.

Speaking to journalists, Adaji said he would consult with relevant stakeholders to determine the next steps.

On Friday, the party held a state congress during which Ezekiel Adaji, a former member of the House of Representatives for the Otukpo/Ohimini federal constituency, along with other state working committee members, was elected.

The chairman of the state congress electoral committee, Alhaji Shaba Ibrahim, announced that Adaji received 2,482 votes and was declared the winner. A total of 2,910 delegates were listed, with 2,900 accredited for the state congress election.

With his victory, Adaji now heads the newly elected 27-member State Executive Committee of the party.

Other officials elected alongside the chairman include State Secretary Comrade Dan Nyikwagh, State Public Secretary Hon Tim Nyor, Youth Leader Ibya Terkimbi, and Women Leader Mrs Alice Albert, among others. They were immediately sworn in by the Caretaker Committee’s legal officer, Barr Friday Ejembi.

In his acceptance speech, Adaji expressed his gratitude for the overwhelming support from party members.

“Our state needs leadership, and my executives will not disappoint the party as we work to bring it back to power,” he said.

“We are going to hit the ground running and will reconcile all aggrieved party members by setting up a reconciliation committee immediately,” he added.

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Gov Adeleke Resigns From PDP

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4 hours ago

December 2, 2025

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Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the 2026 gubernatorial primaries of the party.

Adeleke’s resignation letter, dated November 4, 2025, sighted by Tribune Online was addressed to the PDP ward chairman for Ward 2, Sagba Abogunde, Ede, Osun State.

According to the letter, the governor’s resignation was based on “the current crisis of the national leadership of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).”

According to the letter, titled: “Resignation of my membership of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP)’ read, “Due to the current crisis of the national leadership of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), I hereby resign my Membership of the People’s Democratic Party with immediate effect.

“I thank the People’s Democratic Party for the opportunities given to me for my elections as a Senator (Represented Osun West) and as Governor of Osun State under the People’s Democratic Party.”

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Tinubu Sends Ex-INEC Chair, Former Oyo First Lady, 30 Additional Ambassadorial Nominees To Senate

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3 days ago

November 29, 2025

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President Bola Tinubu has forwarded 32 additional ambassadorial nominees to the Senate for confirmation, just days after submitting an initial batch of three names.

In two separate letters to Senate President Godswill Akpabio, the President urged the upper chamber to consider and swiftly confirm 15 career diplomats and 17 non-career nominees.

The list includes four women among the career nominees and six women among the non-career nominees.

Prominent names on the non-career list include Barrister Ogbonnaya Kalu from Abia State; former presidential aide, Reno Omokri (Delta); former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmud Yakubu; former Ekiti First Lady, Erelu Angela Adebayo; and former Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi.

Others are former Speaker of the Katsina State House of Assembly, Tasiu Musa Maigari; former Plateau State Commissioner, Yakubu N. Gambo; and former Deputy Executive Secretary of UBEC, Yakubu K. Musa.

Also nominated are former Plateau senator, Prof. Nora Ladi Daduut; former Lagos Deputy Governor, Otunba Femi Pedro; former Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode; and Barrister Nkechi Linda Ufochukwu from Anambra State.

Additional nominees include former Oyo First Lady, Fatima Florence Ajimobi; former Lagos Commissioner, Lola Akande; former Adamawa senator, Grace Bent; former Abia governor, Victor Okezie Ikpeazu; Senator Jimoh Ibrahim of Ondo State; and former envoy to the Holy See, Ambassador Paul Oga Adikwu (Benue).

The career ambassadorial nominees are Enebechi Monica Okwuchukwu (Abia), Yakubu Nyaku Danladi (Taraba), Miamuna Ibrahim Besto (Adamawa), Musa Musa Abubakar (Kebbi), Syndoph Paebi Endoni (Bayelsa), Chima Geoffrey Lioma David (Ebonyi), and Mopelola Adeola-Ibrahim (Ogun).

Others include Abimbola Samuel Reuben (Ondo), Yvonne Ehinosen Odumah (Edo), Hamza Mohammed Salau (Niger), Ambassador Shehu Barde (Katsina), Ambassador Ahmed Mohammed Monguno (Borno), Ambassador Muhammad Saidu Dahiru (Kaduna), Ambassador Olatunji Ahmed Sulu Gambari (Kwara), and Ambassador Wahab Adekola Akande (Osun).

The new nominees are expected to be deployed to countries with which Nigeria maintains strong and strategic diplomatic relations, including China, India, South Korea, Canada, Mexico, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, South Africa, and Kenya, as well as to Permanent Missions such as the United Nations, UNESCO, and the African Union.

Their specific postings will be determined after Senate confirmation.

Recall that President Tinubu, last week, forwarded three ambassadorial nominees, Ambassador Ayodele Oke (Oyo), Ambassador Amin Mohammed Dalhatu (Jigawa), and retired Colonel Lateef Kayode Are (Ogun), who are being considered for postings to the UK, USA, or France.

President Tinubu said additional ambassadorial nominations will be announced in due course.

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Soludo Visits Tinubu, Goes Into Closed Door Session With President

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4 days ago

November 28, 2025

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Anambra State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Charles Soludo, on Thursday, paid a courtesy visit to the President, Bola Tinubu, GCFR at the State House.

Report by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Soludo, Mr Chris Aburime stated that President Tinubu received the Anambra State Governor with excitement, describing him as his long standing friend of over 22 years.

Aburime said, “The President used the occasion to further congratulate Governor Soludo on his landslide victory in the just concluded Anambra gubernatorial election.

“Recall that President Tinubu had earlier issued a congratulatory message to Governor Soludo immediately the governorship election was concluded.”

Governor Soludo was declared winner with 73% of the votes cast by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
Other details of the meeting were, however, not disclosed as the press Secretary told DAILY POST that both men went into a closed door meeting after the reception.