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NEWSPAPER HEADLINE

THE NATIONS

Buhari, Osinbajo talks: Cabinet shake-up likely

• ‘President in high spirit, recuperating’

A cabinet reshuffle is likely soon, The Nation learnt yesterday.

 

THE PUNCH

• Party vows to recapture power in 2019, Jonathan woos defections
• Former ruling party is discredited – APC national vice-chair

Following the ruling of the Supreme Court on Wednesday, which sacked Senator Ali Modu Sheriffa the National Chairman of the People Democratic Party, under the leadership of Senator Ahmed Makarif, has taken over the PDP national secretariat in Abuja after the Judgment.

 

THE GUARDIAN

Supreme Court’s verdict ends 14-month battle in PDP

• Judges declare Makarfi authentic chair, upturn appeal
• Its victory for democracy, say party chiefs obi, Ihedioha, Metuh

The Supreme Court yesterday ended a 14-month leadership squabble within the country’s main opposition – the People Democratic Party – and gave it a new lease of life ahead of an important general election in 2019.

 

NIGERIAN TRIBUNE

PDP sets sights on 2019 as Makarfi wins at S/Court

• Door of reconciliation open, he says
• It’s a day of justice, Jonathan, govs, party leader day
• We are not threatened – APC

The Chairman of the National Caretaker Committee of the People Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ahmed Makarfi, has described the Supreme Court judgment, which declared the committee a s the legal and authentic leadership of the party, on Wednesday, as a victory for democracy, saying that doors of reconciliation remained open in the party.

 

VANGUARD

PDP: S-Court judgment resets 2019 politics

• Its victory of constitutionality over arbitrariness – Jonathan
• Fayose, Wike, see victory as enabler toward 2019
• It means nothing to us in APC, says Bolaji Abdullahi
• God has used judgment to heal our wounds – Peter Obi

Abuja – Nigeria’s political landscape was, yesterday, being reshaped with new permutation and perspectives on the 2019 elections, after the Supreme Court resolved the leadership crisis in the People Democratic Party, PDP, in favor of the Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led National Caretaker Committee.