Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State has accused the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, leadership of deviating from the democratic tenets of the nine founding fathers of the party and playing politics of hate, deceit and nepotism.

DELTA State Government has inaugurated a special task force charged with the responsibility of making landlords in the state to pay ground rents for their landed property, whether residential, religious, commercial or agricultural, to sustain the economic growth of the state, with immediate effect.

After a successful medical treatment abroad, the injured former Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship aspirant in Edo State, Mr. Kenneth Imansuangbon, yesterday, returned to Nigeria, describing the accident he was involved in as an assassination attempt on his life.

CHIEF of Staff, Government House, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Chief Tony Okocha, yesterday, dismissed the probe ordered by the Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar, into the aborted rally of the Save Rivers Movement by the Police on January 12, in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area, River State, as another charade.

A former Chairman of Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP, in Bayelsa State, Mr Sunday Frank-Oputu, weekend, described as false, claims that those involved in the leadership crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state, have the mandate of the former governor, Chief Timipre Sylva.