Umar Ardo

Former Adamawa Assembly Speaker and Acting governor, Alhaji Ahmadu Fintiri, has emerged winner of Adamawa Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship primary election.

Two governorship aspirants on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Adamawa, Umar Ardo and Sa’ad Tahir, have withdrawn from Sunday’s primaries of the party.

Nigeria has 68 political parties, while about 20 are waiting to be registered. If these parties clamouring for registration are eventually registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) before the 2019 general elections, the number of political parties in the country may rise to 88.

Ahead of the gubernatorial election in Adamawa State in 2019, a group of PDP stakeholders drawn from the 21 local governments of Adamawa State have endorsed Umar Ardo as the party’s candidate.

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in Adamawa State, Dr. Umar Ardo, has sued President Muhammadu Buhari for conferring national honours on Late Chief MKO Abiola, Amb. Babagana Kingibe and late Chief Gani Fawehinmi.

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Adamawa State, Dr. Umar Ardo, has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to stop the conferment of posthumous national honours on Abiola and Fawehinmi.

Former adviser to former vice president Atiku Abubakar, Umar Ardo, has described the planned conferment of national honours to MKO Abiola, Babagana kingibe, and Gani Fawehinmi as illegal and an indulgence in flagrant illegality by the presidency.

Northern leaders on Wednesday said they would assess candidates of all political parties before supporting any contestant for the 2019 presidential election.

The Northern Leaders and Stakeholders Assembly have inaugurated five standing committees to strategise on a peaceful conduct of the 2019 elections, restructuring and security in the North.

The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may take a decision on the granting of waiver for returnees to the party at its meeting billed for Thursday.

Only recently, the so-called Adamawa State PDP’s leadership and an amorphous group that calls itself Katsina State People’s Democratic Party Elders’ Consultative Forum are reported to have publicly pleaded with the erstwhile Vice President to come back to the PDP.

A former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, may return to the Peoples Democratic Party on Sunday (today), according to one of his associates, Mr. Ahmed Lawan.

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former adviser to the former vice president Atiku Abubakar, Dr. Umar Ardo, has slammed the Sen. Ahmed Makarfi-led Caretaker Committee of the PDP over the party’s flop at the Anambra State election.

A former Special Assistant to Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Dr. Umar Ardo, has called for the cancellation of the results of last Saturday ward congresses in Adamawa State.