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In tweets — via the verified PDP handle (@officialPDPNigeria), the Makarfi - faction of the party said the venue change became necessary after Sen. Modu Sheriff «in collaboration with the All Progressives Congress (APC) led Federal Government» barricaded the ICC.

The crisis in the People's Democratic Party further worsened on Thursday as a faction of the party said the National Working Committee of the party actions are illegal.

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«All through Europe, you will find a number of factions, parties and groups emerging,» says Vranitzky, who served on Magna's board of directors from 1997 to 2011.

A senior activist from the leftwing Social Liberal Forum of the party says Cable's leadership fills that faction with «dread», given he was in charge of the business department that pushed through the fees rise.

Hajia Fati said she was told by her sponsored paymasters to attack the person of Mr. Afoko and others because to them they represented a big threat to their quest for controlling party funds in the run - up to the November 7th polls.Secondly, she said they were told of some agenda 2020 and were asked to undermine President Kuffour and anyone who was seen to be his loyalist in order to kill the Kufuor faction in NPP, leaving only the Akuffo Addo blog to project Dr. Mahamoudu Bawumiah after the flagbearer's tenure.

GOP sources said separate factions of the party are pushing two better - known names to enter the race.

Ervin said there is «a lot of back and forth» between Mahoney and various factions of the Republican Party.

The Bauchi guber aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, Captain Bala Jibrin has said that Speaker, Dogara's faction will challenge the failed congresses of the party...

Mark Pritchard MP is quoted as saying that «it is not a formal grouping, a faction or a party within a party but an informal caucus of like - minded MPs from both the left and right of the party who want to put the country first.»

Mr. Crabbe said the seeming instability in the party, disregard for the party's constitution and the factions created in the party are not good indicators of the party's preparedness to secure power in the upcoming elections.ghanapoliticsonline.com

The party's faction at a Concerned PDP Stakeholders Summit held at the Nicon Hilton Abuja said all actions taken so far by the NWC have been illegal saying the stakeholders see the May 21 National Convention of the party slated for Port Harcourt in Rivers state is illegal.

«One faction of the party wants to cross-endorse him, but the GOP won't permit that so they suggest leaving the line vacant,» the chairman said.

A statement by Adeniran, who is a former Minister of Education, said on Tuesday that this was the time for all the warring factions within the party to bury the hatchet.

Then the third cabal in the party is said to belong to Atiku, who has a leg in each of the other factions and still calls some shots in the PDP.

He said the former presidential candidate has become the face of a faction of the party that could be trying to circumvent the will of primary voters.

While Submitting his committee's report on the reconciliation of the factions within the party to the Makarfi - led PDP caretaker committee in Abuja, Dickson said that such illegal appointments could destroy the unity and cohesion within the party.

As the Ahmed Makarfi faction of the Peoples Democratic Party insisted on going ahead with its National Convention on Wednesday, a Abuja High Court on Tuesday said anybody who flouts order of the court would be made to face the music.

Esiso said those trying to create faction in the party were not only «enemies of PDP» but also of democracy; saying that the convention that produced the Uche Secondus - led National Executive was free and fair.

The powerful union boss said he and the leaders of the other main trade unions - which plough millions of pounds into Labour's coffers every year - wanted to sit down with the party's warring factions to end the in - fighting.

A group made up of about five men led by Mr. Obi Nwosu had, last week, opened a parallel secretariat for the party in Abuja, saying it would also announce members of the National Working Committee of the faction group in January 2018.

The Acting National Publicity Secretary of the Ali Modu Sheriff - led Peoples Democratic Party, before the Supreme Court judgment that favoured the Senator Ahmed Makarfi - led faction of the party, Bernard Mikko, in this interview with GBENRO ADEOYE, says the problems of the party may have just Party, before the Supreme Court judgment that favoured the Senator Ahmed Makarfi - led faction of the party, Bernard Mikko, in this interview with GBENRO ADEOYE, says the problems of the party may have just party, Bernard Mikko, in this interview with GBENRO ADEOYE, says the problems of the party may have just party may have just begun

Impeccable sources said the leadership of the Makarfi faction of the PDP would determine whether to merge with another party if it wins the cases at the courts.

Makarfi and his faction were said to be planning to implement the report if they get favourable judgment at the Supreme Court, where they had filed an appeal against the Court of Appeal judgment, which ruled that Sheriff remained the chairman of the former ruling party.

Speaking in Ado - Ekiti on Friday, the governor, who said Sheriff and members of his faction had been forgiven, added that they must show remorse for causing the party members so much trouble.

Warring factions of the Working Families Party Friday night moved toward backing Gov. Cuomo's re-election bid after threatening to dump him for another candidate, sources said.

He managed in that coup to unite several disparate factions of the party to oust Assemblyman Jose Rivera from the chairmanship, and the key to his position, people say, is an ability to deftly juggle a variety of people and their needs.

Mertens, who has been involved in the party from the beginning, said one of the factions is made up of Republicans who are seeking to use the party for their own ends.

MP Clive Betts, who put the plan to a vote, said it would heal wounds by forcing factions of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) to work together.

Republican nominee Tom Foley and Trinity professor John Mertens are vying for the party's endorsement, said Mike Telesca of Waterbury, chairman of one the factions of the Independent Pparty's endorsement, said Mike Telesca of Waterbury, chairman of one the factions of the Independent PartyParty.

The Labour leader said of the McBride memoirs: «It is a reminder that we must have no factions and no briefing in the Labour party.

The National Secretary of the faction, Prof. Wale Oladipo, who stated this in an interview with our correspondent, said Governor Olusegun Mimiko would be expected to lead Ibrahim's campaign as the leader of the party in the state.

However, the faction of the party under the control of Senator Ahmed Makarfi said Ibrahim remains the choice of the party.

The Senator Ahmed Makarfi - led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party has said that it will only work with Mr. Eyitayo Jegede (SAN) as its candidate in the November 26 governorship election in Ondo State.

Barnhart, a former TV journalist who also ran unsuccessfully for NYS Assembly last fall calls the designation process «the ultimate insider game, «and says it's a battle of two party factions who have been at odds for decades.

However, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has said that it is left to the Appeal Court to decide which faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, should be recognized.

The court, in a ruling delivered on Wednesday by Justice M A.A Edumein on behalf of the three - man panel justices, said the Chief Adolo Okotie - Eboh - led faction of the party failed to seek internal mechanism in resolving their grievances before heading to court following the outcome of the April 2014 congress of the party held in Asaba, the Delta State Capital.

Forty - eight hours after his emergence as the candidate of the Ali Modu Sheriff's faction of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ondo State, Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim has been disowned by the Ahmed Markafi's faction of the party, saying he emerged as the candidate of the party illegParty in Ondo State, Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim has been disowned by the Ahmed Markafi's faction of the party, saying he emerged as the candidate of the party illegparty, saying he emerged as the candidate of the party illegparty illegally.

One senior Labour MP said it could work in a similar way to the Australian Labor party's caucus system, which formally splits into factions of which the «national left» and «national right» are the biggest.

After Bronx State Senator Jeff Klein, the leader of a breakaway faction of Democrats that governs the senate with the Republican Party, received a Senate Democrat - backed challenge from ex-Councilman Oliver Koppell, Mr. Klein asked Mr. Cabrera to run against Mr. Rivera, a chief critic of the senate's power - sharing agreement, sources say.

Withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) or «any watering down of the rights available under the ECHR, would be fiercely opposed not only by Labour, Liberal Democrat and Scottish and Welsh MPs but by the Dominic Grieve faction in the Conservative Party,» he says.