Senator Anietie Okon is a founding member of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In this interview with Vanguard, he bares his mind on the crises rocking the PDP just as he maintained that members of the nPDP are out to intimidate President Goodluck Jonathan from running for a second term in office. Okon, who fingered former President Olusegun Obasanjo in the crisis also speaks on other sundry issues.

THE House of Representatives, yesterday, accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, the Nigeria Customs Service and Accountant General to the Federation, AGF, of deliberate attempts to derail investigation into the N2 trillion worth of seized and recovered assets by the commission since its creation

THE Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has expressed interest in being integrated to the Single Window (SW) platform of the Nigeria Customs Information System (NICIS).

Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State has called on stakeholders to partner with the state in its efforts to reduce maternal and child mortality rate.

MEMBERS of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, will today begin an indefinite strike in Akwa Ibom State to protest alleged plans by Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited to sack its members.

It is said that when the time for an idea comes no force can stop it. For the Nigerian ruling class, the idea of a sovereign national conference, SNC, was viewed as treasonous just 20 years ago.

The Ist Smoking Hill Invitational golf tournament has ended in Ilara-Mokin, OndoState, with winners emerging in seven categories.

The world as described by the poet decades ago is still applicable today as the world’s literary community was, yesterday, thrown into deep mourning following the killing of Prof. Kofi Awoonor, 78. The former UN envoy was among the 39 killed during a terror attack on Westgate Mall on Saturday in Nairobi, Kenya. He died from injuries sustained in the attack.

GOVERNOR Tanko Al-makura of Nasarawa State, has called on over 7,000 Nassarawa State citizens who fled the troubled Obi, Assakio and Adabu-Alabu areas of the state due to the recent violent conflict to return to their homes as measures have been put in place to ensure their safety.

The other day, a friend narrated a story, which I found stranger than fiction; the story related to the travails of a family who lost a successful and illustrious breadwinner, who, incidentally, died without a Will. The family’s elders were consequently entrusted with the responsibility of efficiently managing the estate of the deceased.

Leadership of the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural and political organisation, Afenifere Renewal Group, ARG, has declared that it will be monitoring each of the governors in the South-West region in their implementation regional integration.

Nigerians’ penchant for foreign goods has continued to put pressure on the nation’s external reserves and the exchange rate. In the last four months – April to August, a total of $14.95 billion left the shores of Nigeria as payments made by the Central Bank of Nigeria on behalf of the public.

WHAT I do is to round geo-political zones, work will national orientation agencies, civil society organizations. I have been to Lagos no fewer than six times.

Aviation workers under the aegis of Nigerian Air Traffic Controllers’ Association, NATCA, yesterday, threatened to withdraw their services by the end of the month should domestic airlines fail to pay up outstanding ticket and cargo sales charges, TSC, to aviation agencies.

THE by-election to fill the vacant Delta Central senatorial seat in the National Assembly, which became vacant following the sudden death of Senator Pius Ewherido, has been fixed for October 5, 2013.