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PDP Convention: Here Are The Votes Scored By Presidential Aspirants
The National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party is winding down gradually at the MKO Abiola Stadium in Abuja.
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has again won the presidential ticket of the party. He won it in 2019 but lost to President Muhammadu Buhari.
SaharaReporters obtained the votes scored by some of the presidential aspirants.
Atiku Abubakar – 371 votes
Nyesom Wike – 237 votes
Pius Anyim Pius – 14 votes
Udom Emmanuel – 38 votes
Bala Mohammed – 20 votes
Olusola Saraki – 70 votes
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Earlier during the convention today, the Sokoto State governor, Aminu Tambuwal, had stepped down from the 2023 presidential race for Atiku.
The National Convention started around 6pm with the National Anthem, followed by Muslim and Christian prayers and then, an opening remark by the Chairman of National Organising Committee (NCOC), former Senate President, David Mark.
At the official commencement of the convention, PDP’s National Director of Publicity, Chinwe Nnorom, announced that phones were not allowed at the voting area.
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2023: Ex-President Jonathan Shuns PDP Convention In Confirmation Of SaharaReporters’ Story Of APC Cabals’ Plot To Adopt Him
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According to the list obtained by SaharaReporters on Saturday, 773 delegates are confirmed from the Local Government Areas but about 810 delegates are expected to decide the fate of the candidate.
The delegates of the party consist of one national delegate elected from each of the 774 local government areas and one special delegate per state and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) from among persons living with disabilities, making 811.
All delegates emerged during the LGAs congress conducted by the party on Tuesday, May 10.
The aspirants who participated in the convention had included Abubakar; former Senate Presidents, Bukola Saraki and Pius Anyim; Bauchi governor, Bala Mohammed.
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BREAKING: Atiku Abubakar Secures 371 Votes To Win PDP Presidential Primary
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Others are; River State Governor, Nyesom Wike; Akwa Ibom State Governor, Emmanuel Udom, among others.
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BREAKING: Atiku Abubakar Secures 371 Votes To Win PDP Presidential Primary
A former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, has again secured the highest number of votes at the presidential primaries of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Atiku polled 371 – the highest votes – in the election which held at MKO Abiola Stadium in Abuja on Saturday.
He beat his closest challenger, Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, who scored 237 votes.
BREAKING NEWS: Atiku Wins PDP Presidential Primary Election With 371 Votes Beating His Closest Rival, Nyesome Wike, Who Polled 237 votes.#PDPPresidentialPrimaries #PDPDecides FOLLOW LIVE: pic.twitter.com/qBlubWBt0V— Sahara Reporters (@SaharaReporters) May 28, 2022
The former Vice President also won in 2019 but lost the general elections to President Muhammadu Buhari.
Earlier during the convention today, the Sokoto State governor, Aminu Tambuwal, had stepped down from the 2023 presidential race for Atiku.
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The National Convention started around 6pm with the National Anthem, followed by Muslim and Christian prayers and then, an opening remark by the Chairman of National Organising Committee (NCOC), former Senate President, David Mark.
At the official commencement of the convention, PDP’s National Director of Publicity, Chinwe Nnorom, announced that phones were not allowed at the voting area.
WATCH: Supporters Jubilate As @Atiku Scores 371 Votes To Win PDP Presidential Primary Election#PDPPrimaries #PDPPresidentialPrimariesFOLLOW LIVE: pic.twitter.com/x2LYIwtio5— Sahara Reporters (@SaharaReporters) May 28, 2022
According to the list obtained by SaharaReporters on Saturday, 773 delegates are confirmed from the Local Government Areas but about 810 delegates are expected to decide the fate of the candidate.
The delegates of the party consist of one national delegate elected from each of the 774 local government areas and one special delegate per state and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) from among persons living with disabilities, making 811.
All delegates emerged during the LGAs congress conducted by the party on Tuesday, May 10.
The aspirants who participated in the convention had included Abubakar; former Senate Presidents, Bukola Saraki and Pius Anyim; Bauchi governor, Bala Mohammed.
Others are; River State Governor, Nyesom Wike; Akwa Ibom State Governor, Emmanuel Udom, among others.
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E2%80%99-story-apc 2023: Ex-President Jonathan Shuns PDP Convention In Confirmation Of SaharaReporters’ Story Of APC Cabals’ Plot To Adopt Him
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Former President, Goodluck Jonathan, who was elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was conspicuously absent on Saturday as the party members gathered at the Moshood Abiola Stadium in Abuja to elect its 2023 presidential candidate. Even though his name and picture were on the convention programme, the ex-president was not seen at the venue.
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Jonathan was president between 2010 to 2015 before he was defeated by President Muhammadu Buhari of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). But in the last few years, the former president has distanced himself from the various activities of the party. Meanwhile, Jonathan’s absence from the all-important national convention of the PDP confirms SaharaReporters’ stories earlier today that the former president was being prepared by some APC cabals and Buhari’s kitchen cabinet as the APC’s 2023 consensus candidate.
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EXCLUSIVE: Adoption Of Jonathan As APC Consensus Candidate By President Buhari’s Cabal Unsettles Tinubu, Osinbajo, Ameachi, Other Aspirants
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SaharaReporters earlier reported that power brokers in the Buhari government will on Monday serve a Federal High Court order clearing Jonathan to the Independent National Electoral Commission and the APC in Abuja. SaharaReporters had on Friday reported that the court sitting in Yenegoa, Bayelsa State, declared that Jonathan was eligible and “constitutionally” qualified to contest for president in 2023.
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EXCLUSIVE: Nigerian Court To Pronounce Jonathan ‘Constitutionally, Morally’ Qualified To Contest For 2023 President On Friday
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In his judgment on Friday, Justice Hamma Adama Dashen said Jonathan was not affected by the fourth alteration to the constitution barring Vice-Presidents who succeed their principals from serving more than one full term.SaharaReporters gathered that the judgment was part of the plans of the Aso Rock cabal supporting Jonathan to take over from Buhari.The newspaper on Thursday reported that Jonathan had submitted the N100 million forms a few days earlier to the National Chairman of the ruling party, Abdullahi Adamu.
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EXCLUSIVE: War In APC Party As Tinubu, Osinbajo, Amaechi, Others Told To ‘Forget’ Presidential Primary, Support Jonathan As Buhari Cabals’ Adopted Candidate
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“His form has secretly been submitted. He submitted his nomination form through the APC Chairman a few days ago,” a source in the ruling party privy to information had said.“Members of President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabal are still pushing for Jonathan to become the party’s consensus candidate.”Speaking on Saturday, one of the top sources added, “Another option they are considering is that the Supreme Court is expected to rule in favour of Buhari next week on the Electoral Act. That ruling will likely permit the super delegates (earlier excluded) to vote for Jonathan if it boils down to voting in the primaries.” Jonathan was Nigeria’s leader as a member of the PDP, which is now an opposition party.
EXCLUSIVE: Junketing Nigerian President, Buhari To Visit Spain Next Week To Allow Ruling APC Cabals Perfect 2023 Deal For Jonathan | Sahara Reporters pic.twitter.com/yyi1eKa2M1— Sahara Reporters (@SaharaReporters) May 28, 2022
SaharaReporters broke the story of how a cabal in the ruling APC had pushed for Jonathan to succeed Buhari, after being impressed by how the former President never openly criticised Buhari government despite its ineptitude and the insults the APC, as an opposition party, hurled at him (Jonathan) ahead of the 2015 presidential election.The fact that Jonathan cannot spend more than one term in office, if they can manage to get him there, is also not lost on the cabal.
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Ex-Nigerian Minister, Obanikoro Rejects Result Of Ruling APC Lagos West Senatorial Primary
Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, a former minister of state for defence, says he is displeased with the process and eventual outcome of the All Progressives Congress Lagos West Senatorial primary where he lost to the former deputy governor of Lagos, Idiat Adebule.Mrs Adebule, who was deputy to Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, defeated Obanikoro with 424 votes against 119.
Kayode Opeifa, a former commissioner in the state, polled four votes.The former minister’s loss came a day after his son, Ibrahim Obanikoro (APC, Eti Osa), lost the ticket for a return to the House of Representatives.Obanikoro joined the APC in 2017, defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party.In a statement on Saturday, the former minister rejected the result, saying that the exercise was fraught with intimidation and other malpractices which he would address with the party in due course.He reiterated his earlier stand that the acclaimed winner was not even qualified to stand for the election.“It was obvious that the exercise was designed to favour the acclaimed winner, who was not even qualified to stand in for the election,” the statement read.“This is because she did not participate in the electoral process of obtaining the Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms, nor did she participate in the screening which she did not also submit to.“Therefore, it is obvious that the exercise was designed to favour the acclaimed winner who was not even qualified to stand for the election.”
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BREAKING: PDP Presidential Race: Sokoto Governor, Tambuwal Steps Down, Endorses Atiku
Sokoto State governor, Aminu Tambuwal, has stepped down from the 2023 presidential race under the Peoples Democratic Party, endorsing former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, Punch reports.The special convention to elect the PDP presidential candidate for the 2023 general elections is underway in Abuja amid tight security.
The National Convention started around 6pm with the National Anthem, followed by Muslim and Christian prayers and then, an opening remark by the Chairman of National Organising Committee (NCOC), former Senate President, David Mark.At the official commencement of the convention, PDP’s National Director of Publicity, Chinwe Nnorom, announced that phones were not allowed at the voting area.”If you are not a delegate, don’t go close to the cubicles, delegates should also note that phones are not allowed around the voting cubicle,” Nnorom had announced.According to the list obtained by SaharaReporters on Saturday, 773 delegates are confirmed from the Local Government Areas but about 810 delegates are expected to decide the fate of the candidate.The delegates of the party consist of one national delegate elected from each of the 774 local government areas and one special delegate per state and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) from among persons living with disabilities, making 811.All delegates emerged during the LGAs congress conducted by the party on Tuesday, May 10.The aspirants participating in the convention include Abubakar; former Senate Presidents, Bukola Saraki and Pius Anyim; Bauchi governor, Bala Mohammed.Others are; River State Governor, Nyesom Wike; Akwa Ibom State Governor, Emmanuel Udom, among others.
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E2%80%93-anti-graft-agency-efcc Why Operatives Stormed Ongoing PDP Presidential Primary – Anti-graft Agency, EFCC
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has explained why its operatives on Saturday stormed the venue of the ongoing Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential primary election in Abuja.The presence of the operatives of the anti-graft agency had elicited questions and an uncertain atmosphere at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja.
But the commission has explained that its operatives stormed the primary election to monitor delegates’ inducement and financial malpractices in the ongoing exercise.The Public Relations Officer of the commission, Wilson Uwujaren, who made this known to Punch at the venue said, “Our operatives are at the ongoing PDP presidential primary elections at the MKO Abiola Stadium to monitor the exercise, and most especially, to check delegates inducement and other financial malpractices.”The National Convention started around 6pm with the National Anthem, followed by Muslim and Christian prayers and then, an opening remark by the Chairman of National Organising Committee (NCOC), former Senate President, David Mark.At the official commencement of the convention, PDP’s National Director of Publicity, Chinwe Nnorom, announced that phones were not allowed at the voting area.”If you are not a delegate, don’t go close to the cubicles, delegates should also note that phones are not allowed around the voting cubicle,” Nnorom had announced.According to the list obtained by SaharaReporters on Saturday, 773 delegates are confirmed from the Local Government Areas but about 810 delegates are expected to decide the fate of the candidate.The delegates of the party consist of one national delegate elected from each of the 774 local government areas and one special delegate per state and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) from among persons living with disabilities, making 811.All delegates emerged during the LGAs congress conducted by the party on Tuesday, May 10.The aspirants participating in the convention include former vice president, Atiku Abubakar; former Senate Presidents, Bukola Saraki and Pius Anyim; Bauchi and Sokoto State Governors, Bala Mohammed and Aminu Tambuwal.Others are ; River State Governor, Nyesom Wike; pharmacist, Sam Ohabunwa, Akwa Ibom State Governor, Emmanuel Udom, among others.
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E2%80%99t-accept-consensus-%E2%80%93-governor-akeredolu%E2%80%99s-wife-tackles After Spending My Time, Money, I Won’t Accept Consensus – Governor Akeredolu’s Wife Tackles Imo Governor Over Imposition Of APC Candidates
Betty, the wife of the Ondo State governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, has accused Governor Hope Uzodinma of allegedly imposing candidates in the federal legislative primary elections of the All Progressives Congress in Imo State.Mrs Akeredolu, is contesting the APC Imo North senatorial ticket.
In a trending video, the governor’s wife who was in deep emotion was seen expressing displeasure over the arrangement.She said the position must be contested among the aspirants for a popular candidate to emerge.According to her, any attempt to impose a candidate on the people of Owerri Zone would be vehemently opposed.She also called on the leadership of the party to reject any result emanating from the process as there was no transparent process.The Ondo first lady said, “I am insisting that we must go by delegates election. I cannot waste time and resources campaigning only to be told that candidates would emerge by consensus.
WATCH: Wife of Ondo State Governor, Betty Akeredolu Humiliated, Accuses Uzodinma Of Hijacking Senatorial Primaries As Security Agents Chase Out Ondo Governorâ??s Wife From Imo APC Secretariat pic.twitter.com/I7FtYFHz9O— Sahara Reporters (@SaharaReporters) May 28, 2022
“We must vote and if I lose gallantly, I will accept the result. Consensus my foot. If men agree to consensus, I won’t agree. After spending my time and money, you are now telling me about consensus and all these while we have been campaigning and nobody talked about consensus.”SaharaReporters earlier reported that policemen and other security operatives chased out Akeredolu’s wife and her supporters from the APC secretariat where they were protesting.Confusion had erupted when her supporters went berserk, insisting that they must be allowed to vote, but the police tried to control the crowd.In the process, there was stampede as both journalists and delegates who had also arrived for the exercise scampered for safety.Akeredolu, who addressed journalists at the gate of the secretariat, said that it was injustice to allow aspirants to campaign only to be told that the party had adopted consensus option.
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Opposition Party, PDP Bars Phones From Voting Area As Delegates Elect Presidential Candidate
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has fully commenced its 2022 National Convention at the Moshood Abiola Stadium Abuja, where the party is expected to elect its 2023 presidential candidate.The National Convention started around 6pm with the National Anthem, followed by Muslim and Christian prayers and then, an opening remark by the Chairman of National Organising Committee (NCOC), former Senate President, David Mark.
At the official commencement of the convention, PDP’s National Director of Publicity, Chinwe Nnorom, announced that phones were not allowed at the voting area.”If you are not a delegate, don’t go close to the cubicles, delegates should also note that phones are not allowed around the voting cubicle,” Nnorom announced.According to the list obtained by SaharaReporters on Saturday, 773 delegates are confirmed from the Local Government Areas but about 810 delegates are expected to decide the fate of the candidate.The delegates of the party consist of one national delegate elected from each of the 774 local government areas and one special delegate per state and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) from among persons living with disabilities, making 811.All delegates emerged during the LGAs congress conducted by the party on Tuesday, May 10.The aspirants participating in the convention include former vice president, Atiku Abubakar; former Senate Presidents, Bukola Saraki and Pius Anyim; Bauchi and Sokoto State Governors, Bala Mohammed and Aminu Tambuwal.Others are ; River State Governor, Nyesom Wike; pharmacist, Sam Ohabunwa, Akwa Ibom State Governor, Emmanuel Udom, among others.
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Ex-Minister Obanikoro, Like Son, Fails To Secure National Assembly Ticket
Former Minister of state for defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, has failed to secure the senatorial ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos West, losing it to former Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Dr. Idiat Oluranti Adebule.Obanikoro suffered the loss 24 hours after Babajide, his son, lost his reelection ticket to the House of Representatives.
The younger brother of Oba Saheed Elegushi defeated Obanikoro’s son in the APC Primary for Eti-Osa Federal Constituency.In Saturday’s election, Adebule, who served as Deputy Governor under the immediate past administration of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, polled 424 votes while Obanikoro trailed with 119 Votes.A former Commissioner for Transportation in the state, Mr. Kayode Opeifa, came a distant third with four votes.
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E2%80%93 Killers Of Pregnant Woman, Harira, Four Children In Anambra Are Known; They Must Be Exposed – Soyinka
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Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has condemned the killing of a pregnant woman identified as Harira Jubril and her four children in Anambra State, saying their killers must be exposed to avert a recurrence.The children were identified as Fatima, Aisha, Hadiza, and Zaituna.
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The victims, who are of northern extraction, were reportedly killed at Isulo, Orumba North Local Government Area of the state last Sunday.In an article on Saturday, Soyinka said Nigerians – including himself – would know the killers of the woman and her children and therefore, they should be exposed.The Nobel laureate said he would not be attending an engagement with a school in Anambra State scheduled for August to honour those who were killed.Soyinka wrote, “So, it has happened! No one can claim it was nowhere fearfully expected, but one dared hope that the ugly, abominable word “reprisal” would remain locked down within the dark pit of primitivism hidden in the Nigerian psyche. I decided to edit out the warning expression of that fear from my recent Abuja statement – this was a concession to a superstitious fear, that “giving it voice” could set off the zombie trigger in the homicidally inclined. Then of course one would be held responsible for inserting the notion in the heads of others.“We all know however that these retarded minds are ever present among us, and only await the most trivial excuse to actualise their innermost craving. From the pronouncements of even those who claim to be men of God, we are left in no doubt that such craving receives endorsement from across the human spectrum. Where they cannot act, they incite others to fulfill their credo of morbidity.“The horror that was recently afflicted on the people of Anambra and the rest of us was redoubled for me personally because the news reached me outside the country while I was participating in an event of youth empowerment – a college graduation ceremony. The anticipated question surfaced again and again: What kind of mind is capable of such bestiality?“And yet it happens, again and again. We know who these killers are, they live among us. Sometimes I undergo the feeling that I actually know them, that I have encountered them, have heard them and perhaps even read them. And we know that unless they are pre-emptively denounced and exposed, they will strike and strike again. Their actions reduce us all, tarnish us, and question our humanity.“At the Abuja event, exactly a week ago, I proposed the need to develop the collective sense of a Lowest Common Denominator in the seizure of our humanity. Any act that attempts to drag us below, or remove that rung of the human ladder should be answered by a total community shutdown – or other equivalence – of its own accord, until that rung is fully reclaimed. The Anambra infanticidal orgy is one such. Deborah Samuel’s mob immolation was another. Response to such abominations transcends the mandatory functions of security agencies.“The act constitutes a breach in community ramparts and should be answered by collective action. Again, I insist that it is long past time to move beyond pious denunciations – essential, yes, but insufficient. We simply must devise ways of making our revulsion so stark, unambiguous, and inclusive. Only then will such pollutants of civic consciousness be brought to rethink, come to understand that it is not just the immediate family, friends and colleagues whose humanity is thus violated, but the totality of cohabitants.“I admitted, in Abuja, that I nearly cancelled that engagement as an expression of that revulsion, and in solidarity with the bereaved. In the end, I decided that this would not be the right gesture. It so happens that I also have an engagement in Anambra, at a school where, for all I know, the children of Mr. Jibril Ahmed were enrolled, or would soon be enrolled, a sanctuary of learning for the one yet in the womb of the murdered Harira. It need not have been that very institution, but it is to just such a place of creative formation that they were all innately predetermined.“Collective action is not always easy to come by – except of course by coercion, which is what we are witnessing in the activities of militant groups in the East. That, however, is not the issue, this being a crossroads that the Anambra people will navigate themselves. The cold-blooded murders of guests in our home is however not merely a national issue but a violation of the much touted values of the black race. We must begin somewhere, “draw a line” – however individual and limited. I totally repudiate the killing of guests, of the unarmed, of innocents, the vulnerable, indeed, the murder of humanity.“This time, I believe the decision is right, the moment compelling. In empathy with those innocents whose scholastic careers have been so brutally annulled, I serve notice of cancellation of that engagement with the Anambra school, scheduled for August. The deaths of those innocents cannot be reversed, but we must begin, even yesterday, the process of reversing the mental trajectory that makes death from innocence the current norm of national existence.”
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