CONTINUING intrigues among the four allied Northern presidential candidates may have prompted the Mallam Adamu Ciroma led 17 Wise Men committee to defer its choice candidate to confront President Goodluck Jonathan for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential ticket.

Former Governor of Enugu State, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, was, yesterday, re-arraigned before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a 124-count charge of alleged money laundering.

THE crisis engulfing the National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, may have pitched President Goodluck Jonathan in a quandary between heeding his rule of law mantra and protecting the interests of some governors.

A FOUNDING member of ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from Abia State, Prince Benjamin Apugo, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to drop his presidential ambition in 2011, and respect the zoning formula of the party, which is enshrined in the party’s constitution by the founding fathers.

The process of consultation between Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and the National Assembly on how to get additional time for the conduct of a credible free and fair election concretised, yesterday, with the approval of the second alteration of the 1999 Constitution.

AS the battle for the Agodi Government House in 2011 continues, the ex-Deputy Governor of Oyo State, Alhaji Gbolarumi Azeem has told his former boss, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala to be getting ready to leave the office.