Delta State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, has called on the Urhobo to put the past behind them and rally support for President Goodluck Jonathan’s second term bid, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa governorship bid and other PDP candidates success in the 2015 general elections.

The emergence of a former Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), appears to have changed the political calculations in the northern part of Nigeria.

Alhaji Ibrahim Coomassie is a former Inspector General of Police. He became the Chairman of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) some seven months back. In this interview,
Coomassie says President Goodluck Jonathan would have been a hero if he had stepped down in 2011 after completing the term of his former boss, the late Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, but insists that the 2015 presidential election, if free and fair, will return power to the North. He also berates the Federal Government for the insecurity in the North.

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GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State says he will continue to accord respect to former governor of old Bendel State, Dr Samuel Ogbemudia, saying he is a leader who is sincerely worried about the future of the state.

Hon. Odein Ajumogobia, a former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and one-time Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Rivers State, emerged as one of the challengers to a former Minister, Chief Nyesom Wike, in the race for the PDP ticket to contest the governorship of Rivers State in 2015. However when it became obvious that the Wike campaign juggernaut hadgenerated overwhelming influence and control of the selection process, Ajumogobia went to court to attempt to halt the process.

THE Speaker of Ekiti State House of Assembly, Dr Adewale Omirin, has reacted to the directive by Governor Ayodele Fayose urging the Ministry of Justice to write a memo authorising the Commissioner of Police to arrest the 19 APC lawmakers that sat in a plenary last Thursday in the state capital.

“The experience is that of inner strength. I got stronger because this was a new terrain, unlike entertainment that you have gotten so used to and you take everything for granted. I also got humbled. In entertainment, you have ego but in politics you dare not bring up that ego or you will be messed up” she told Potpourri

THE embattled Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State has set up a peace and reconciliation committee to meet with aggrieved members following the furore the defection of Governor Olusegun Mimiko to the party generated.

THE All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, yesterday in Awka unveiled its candidates for the 2015 senatorial, House of Representatives and House of Assembly elections at an impressive ceremony at the Alex Ekwueme Square in Awka.