President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, went before an Abuja High Court sitting at Maitama to challenge the propriety of a suit seeking to void his presidential aspiration under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

FORTY-EIGHT hours after the selection of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as the candidate of the Northern Elders Forum to contest the 2011 presidential primaries against President Goodluck Jonathan, on the platform of the PDP, some influential northerners are expressing fears that General Muhammadu Buhari of the CPC would be the greatest beneficiary of votes in the region.

SECOND Republic Senator and South South leader, Senator Francis Okpozo, yesterday, warned Northern leaders against taking actions capable of destabilising the country, saying that the emergence of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as the Northern consensus candidate was an attempt to ridicule the integrity of Nigerians.

The House of Representatives and Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, yesterday, disagreed over claims by the legislators that the operations of the regulator were shrouded in secrecy.

LEGISLATIVE activities at the National Assembly, Abuja, were yesterday delayed for hours by protesting staff of the National Assembly Service Commission due to non-payment of salaries and other allowances.

ANAMBRA High Court, sitting in Ekwulobia, has sacked two parallel executive committees of the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP, in Anambra State.

EMBATTLED former militant leader, “General” John Togo, who had come under fire from some of his colleagues for returning to the creeks after accepting amnesty last year from the Federal Government, yesterday, said he was not a criminal as some of his former militant colleagues had alleged

About seven aspirants from Oji River Local Government Area of Enugu State, vying to represent Aninri, Awgu and Oji-River federal constituency at the National Assembly in the forthcoming 2011 elections, have rejected the Professor S. Ukpabi-led committee set up by the Greater Awgu Forum, a socio-political group, to ascertain which of the three local governments should produce the next candidate for the election.

Angry protests have continued to trail the gruesome murder in Owerri, of the traditional ruler of Ibeamaukwu autonopmous community, Umunakanu, Ehime Mbano local government area, Eze Emeka Njoku, in bizarre circumstances.