ALL Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, in Abia State has called for the cancellation of the ongoing voters’ registration by INEC in the state, saying it was fraught with irregularities.
Delta State governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan yesterday laughed off allegations that his victory in the January 6, 2011 guber re-run election over his main opponents, Chief Great Ogboru was influenced by alledged rigging of the votes of the three Warri Local governments over that of the mainland areas of the state saying, “if you look at those who registered to vote in the state, the truth is that the Warri area of these people have been surviving on elections.
DISCORDANT tunes trailing the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF’s reported call on President Goodluck Jonathan to abandon his presidential bid are yet to die down. The issue resonated at a meeting of the Northern Governors in Yola, the Adamawa State Capital, last night, with the helmsmen failing to reach a consensus on it, sources said.
CONCERNED by widespread criticisms and attempts by politicians to manipulate the on-going voters’ registration exercise, Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday urged the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, to be firmed and not to be intimidated in commission’s pursuit of conducting a free and fair election come April 2011.
Erstwhile Governor Segun Oni of Ekiti State has petitioned the Chief Justice of the Federation, CJN, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, asking him to set up a panel with a view to review the judgment of the Appeal Court, which sacked his administration from office last year.
THE peaceful conclusion of the referendum in Southern Sudan is soothing news to those who expected violence would mar the exercise. It is cheery news in a continent that has consistently proved its inability to reach consensus through the ballot box.
PRESIDENTIAL candidate of the National Conscience Party, NCP, Bashorun Dele Momodu during a visit to Vanguard Newspapers’ Corporate Headquarters bared his mind on why his aspiration should not be taken for granted. He also spoke on his plans for the country, if elected and why power should return to men of the Fourth Estate, who fought for and won Independence for the country. Excerpts:
Never before has the otherwise once politically cohesive North been pushed to the wall as it is now. Even more vexatious for some is that the source of the disharmony raging in the North today is the smiling innocent looking and seemingly harmless ‘political neophyte,’ Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.
CHIEF Paulinus Akpeki, is the Delta State Commissioner for Communications and Public Orientation. In an interview with Vanguard he articulated the agenda of the Emmanuel Uduaghan administration in the months ahead and raised the question on the tenure of the governor following the January re-run election. Excerpts.
Members of House of Representatives were furious yesterday over the National Sports Commission’s inability to account for money allegedly disbursed to the Commission for capital projects, but there was no sign those projects were executed.
FAO’s prediction that Nigeria, Morocco and Bangladesh face imminent food crisis has attracted divergent reactions from stakeholders in the nation’s agricultural sector. The report, posted on the UN agency’s website, stated that the world food situation was in dire straits.
Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, has said that the Military must be committed to the country’s democracy.
THE Centre for Constitutional Governance, CCG, founded by late activist, Dr. Beko Ransome_Kuti has urged Nigerians not to develop apathy for the on_going INEC voters’ registration exercise in view of the lapses and hiccups associated with the use of the Direct Data Capturing (DDC) machine in the registration exercise.
THE political fight in Ogun State between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Governor Gbenga Daniel got to an apparent climax, yesterday, as the National Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, waived aside a court order to issue the party’s nomination forms to members of the Daniel faction.
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