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Edo 2024: Consolidate Your Reunion Around Ogbeide-Ihama Candidacy, Group Urges Obaseki, Orbih

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2 years ago

January 6, 2024

Group known as Oredo Political Front (OPF) has called on Governor Godwin Obaseki and Chief Dan Orbih, National Vice-Chairman, South-South of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to consolidate their recent reunion by backing the aspiration of Omoregie Ogbeide-Ihama, the only PDP aspirant it says can win the September 2024 governorship election.

The group, while lauding the governor for breaking the ice in the relationship between him and Orbih with his recent Christmas visit to the PDP chief, said it was incumbent on them to move the reconciliation forward by backing the only aspirant its claimed can retain the state for the PDP.

The OPF in a statement issued by its national coordinator, Ken Ekpe, said: “We were glad to see Governor Godwin Obaseki visit Orbih for a Christmas visit. That was salutary given the history of discord that had shadowed their relationship in the last few years.

“We, however, call on them to move the process forward by backing a common candidate to win the election for the PDP. We dare say that there is no other person with a stronger capacity than Ogbeide-Ihama who has shown electoral vigour on the ground and a popularity around the political firmament in Edo State.

“We need not remind our governor how Oredo Federal Constituency was impregnable for his former party when Ogbeide-Ihama contested and won the elections on a record two times in 2015 and 2019 despite having APC governors in control of the state capital.

“It is sufficient logic to say that when a man wins the election in the state capital despite being from the opposition party he must be a strong man.

“As passionate supporters of Ogbeide-Ihama we dare say that his street popularity is also attested to among the elites who are enthusiastically backing him.”

The group also charged Chief Orbih that he has a moral burden to back Ogbeide-Ihama given the fact that he was a witness to the pressure piled on the former lawmaker to withdraw from the 2020 PDP primaries to allow Obaseki get the ticket.

“It is for these two reasons that we call on Obaseki and Orbih to strengthen their new unity by jointly backing the only man that can win the governorship seat for the PDP in Edo State,” the statement concluded.

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Dino Melaye Reacts To Malami’s Arraignment For Money Laundering

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4 days ago

December 30, 2025

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Ex-Kogi West senator, Dino Melaye, has reacted to the arraignment of a former Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, Abubakar Malami, before an Abuja Federal High Court.

Melaye wished Malami well as he began his trial for corruption.

Posting on X, the former lawmaker recalled how he was prosecuted by Malami over what he described as frivolous cases while he was the AGF.

He wrote: “Reminded me of how I was appearing in different courts when Malami as AGF was prosecuting me over frivolous cases including taking over one of the police cases against me. Wish him.well.”

Malami, his son Abdulaziz, and another individual are facing a 16-count charge of money laundering.

They were arraigned on allegations of unlawful acquisition and concealment of funds.

They all pleaded not guilty to the charges.

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What PDP Said About Wike’s Media Parley

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4 days ago

December 29, 2025

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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has accused the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, of being a constant agent of provocation in the political space, alleging that he creates trouble to mask selfish intentions.

The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Ini Ememobong, stated this in a statement issued on Monday in response to Wike’s media parley with selected journalists in Port Harcourt, also held on Monday.

According to the PDP, remarks made by the minister on several occasions are proof that he falls short of being a locus classicus of anti-democratic adventurism.

The party said Wike’s conduct was not new, stressing that he has consistently acted as an agent provocateur in the political arena, stirring controversy to advance personal interests.

The PDP further stated that since Wike assumed office as Governor of Rivers State in 2015, he has remained a recurrent source of trouble within the party’s leadership.

“From the Sheriff era, where he was a forerunner in the Sheriff-for-National Chairman movement and later turned to fight and remove Sheriff; later he championed the Uche Secondus-for-National Chairman movement (in fact, he granted a very combustible interview that polarized the party just before the convention) and then was the same person fighting to remove Secondus.

“The same Wike led the movement to produce Dr. Iyorchia Ayu as National Chairman against the advice of many party leaders, and so soon thereafter, it was Wike again who led the Ayu-must-go struggle.

“By his end-of-year media chat, Minister Nyesom Wike has reiterated his support for, and in fact declared that he is the ‘number one supporter’ of the presumptive candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the 2027 Presidential election, while remaining a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, confirming the basis of his expulsion from the PDP, for anti-party activities,” the statement said.

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JUST IN: INEC Excludes PDP From Ekiti Governorship Election

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4 days ago

December 29, 2025

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The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the 2026 Ekiti governorship election, Dr Wole Oluyede, and his deputy were conspicuously absent as the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, released the provisional list of party candidates ahead of the election.

INEC on Monday posted the list of candidates from 12 political parties vying for the state’s top job at its office on New Iyin Road, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State.

The list shows that the All Progressives Congress, APC, is fielding the incumbent governor, Biodun Oyebanji, with Monisade Afuye as his running mate.

Other candidates include Opeyemi Falegan of the Accord Party, with Omoyemi Olaleye as deputy; Akande Oluwasegun of the African Action Congress, paired with Oluwasanmi Fajuyigbe; and Ayodeji Ojo of the Action Democratic Party, with Itunu Ibitoye as running mate.

Similarly, the African Democratic Congress is presenting Oluwadare Bejide and Paul Olowoyeye, while the Action Peoples Party has Bidemi Awogbemi and Akinyemi Adewumi on its ticket.

The PDP’s absence may not be unconnected with the leadership crisis currently rocking the party at the national level.