Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, former Senate President Ken Nnamani and Senator Ben Obi have emerged as the front runners in the race for the running mate to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar who flags the consensus flag of the Northern Political Leaders Forum (NPLF) ahead of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential primary.

The General Muhammadu Buhari-led Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, and the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, have commenced merger negotiations which would be cemented before the end of the year.
CPC’s National Organising Secretary, Mr. Richard Mnenga, said this while fielding questions from newsmen in Makurdi, Benue State, weekend.

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President Goodluck Jonathan has assured Nigerians and the international community of his government’s resolve to ensure the success of the 2011 general elections, stating that: “It shall be one man, one vote and that the vote of the people will count this time round.”

FORMER Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd) said, weekend, that he was not prepared to join issues with Chief Olusegun Obasanjo because the former President was his senior in the military.

AGGRIEVED ex-militants in the Niger-Delta who recently returned to the creeks, over their dissatisfaction with the post-amnesty programme, yesterday, dismissed the widely held notion that they would work against President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2011 presidential poll, saying, he (Jonathan) is their candidate.

Delta north political leaders have listed conditions upon which they would throw their weight behind Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan in the fresh governorship election ordered by the Appeal Court in Delta State.

PIONEERING graduates of the University of Benin are set to immortalize the founder of the university, Dr. Sam Ogbemudia and Chief Edwin K. Clark, (UNIBEN) minister of state for works, Chris Ogiemwonyi, disclosed in Benin City yesterday.