FOLLOWING the defeat of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, by the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in the South West during the April elections, there are strong indications that some members of the party are rooting for the removal of former President Olusegun Obasanjo as the chairman, Board of Trustees, BoT, of the party.

THE Yoruba Unity Forum says a recent article in a newspaper was to discredit the late Papa Obafemi Awolowo family and cast aspersions on the integrity of Chief (Mrs) HID Awolowo and her three living children.

Senate President David Mark has cautioned his supporters and leaders of the Benue South Senatorial district against campaigning for him in the 2015 presidency.

It is the anniversary of the June 12, 1993 presidential election. 18 years ago, Nigerians had defied the odds to take part in the election that was widely adjudged to meet the international standards of transparency and won by the late Chief MKO Abiola. The poll was, however, annulled by the then military regime, throwing the nation into months of turmoil. Senator Jonathan Zwingina who was the director general of Abiola political organisation, Mr Yinka Odumakin, a member of Afenifere

The North’s patience with zoning seems exhausted after a prominent northern leader Alhaji Lawal Kaita,declared weekend, that they were no longer interested in the arrangement that sees Nigeria’s top six offices shared among the six geo-political zones.