•Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar A longlist of notable politicians including former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and ex-presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi are in talks to join the Social Democratic Party (SDP). This is according to the SDP presidential candidate in the 2023 election Adewole Adebayo. Adebayo said Atiku and ...
•Former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai The Kaduna chapter of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) has disowned former Governor Nasir El-Rufai, stating that he is not a recognised member of the party. Recall that the founding member of the All Progressives Congress(APC) recently dumped the ruling party for the SDP, reports The Nation. Th...
•Peter Obi With Nigeria’s 2027 presidential election about two years away, political permutations and combinations have begun with actors shopping for special purpose vehicles among the 19 registered political parties in the country to realise their dream to occupy the Aso Rock, the nation’s seat of power in the political capital city of Abuja...
•Barau and Ganduje The 2023 vice presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Yusuf Buhari, alongside the party’s Kano State governorship candidate, Bala Mohammed Gwagwarawa, as well as members of the Kano State Working Committee (SWC) and 38 local government chairmen and secretaries yesterday dumped the party for the All Progr...
About 200 councillorship candidates of the New Nigerian People’s Party (NNPP) who contested the local government polls in Kaduna alongside thousands of their supporters have defected to the Social Democratic Party (SDP). The event which took place at the Social Democratic Party Secretariat in Kaduna, witnessed the mammoth crowd of the NNPP dec...
•Nasir el-Rufai The Social Democratic Party (SDP) has raised concerns over alleged plans to silence opposition leaders, including Malam Nasir El-Rufai, ahead of the 2027 general elections. This was contained in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja yesterday by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Ambassador Rufus Aiyenigba....
•Buhari, Tinubu and El-Rufai There are strong indications that some former ministers of ex-President Muhammadu Buhari will move en masse to the Social Democratic Party. A senator in the ninth Assembly, who spoke to our correspondent on condition of anonymity, said at least 10 former members of the Buhari cabinet were moving to the SDP, [&helli...
•Bashir El-Rufai Bashir El-Rufai, son of former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai, has called on Nigerians to join the Social Democratic Party (SDP) to “save the country from area boys”. In a cryptic post on X, Bashir seemed to be referring to President Bola Tinubu’s appointees from Lagos. “Join in saving this country from area […]...
•MC Tagwaye A renowned entertainer, businessman, youth leader, and former member of the APC Presidential Campaign Team for the 2023 elections, Obinna Simon, popularly known as MC Tagwaye, has defected to the Social Democratic Party (SDP). Explaining his decision, MC Tagwaye said he left the All Progressives Congress (APC) due to the party’s la...
•Former Governor Nasir El-Rufai The Kaduna chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said it will not lose sleep over the defection of the immediate past governor of the state, Nasir El-Rufai, to the Social Democratic Party (SDP). El-Rufai had today announced his resignation from the APC to the SDP, expressing disappointment with the ...
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