KANO—Kano, the hotbed of Northern politics was turned into play, yesterday, after the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar turned out for a mega rally in the ancient city.

BARELY one week to the Presidential and National Assembly elections, campaigns by political parties in Edo State have reached a high point; from the major political parties to the minor ones, all exuding confidence that they would create upsets by dethroning the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.

LAFIA— Former governor of Nasarawa State, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, yesterday, appealed for the intervention of traditional rulers for the successful conduct of the forth coming general election in the country through prayers.

ABUJA—United Nations Secretary in Nigeria, Mohammed Chambers yesterday challenged the Nigerian government and all stakeholders in the general elections to  work harder at ensuring that the outcome of the exercise  before, during and after the polls will be clothed in the globally acceptable tenets of a free, fair, credible and peaceful process.

With Nigerians storming many of the campaign venues of the leading presidential candidates, concern that the enthusiasm may be misplaced has come to the fore in the face of progressive decline in voter turnout over the last four election cycles.

Former APC Presidential aspirant, Chief Charles Udeogaranya has joined the league of opponents who think President Muhammadu Buhari is not fit to continue as Nigeria’s president.

THE Harvard Professor and expert on 13th and 14th century Europe, one of whose books I read only after finishing the VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, left several historical insights from which Nigerian leaders and their advisers, as well as My Fellow Countrymen/women would benefit if only we read history – or anything else for that matter.”

Abakaliki—SUPPORTERS and members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ebonyi State, weekend defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

LAGOS—THE Jimi Agbaje Campaign Organisation, JACO, yesterday, accused officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of allegedly colluding with the All Progressives Congress, APC, to disenfranchise non-indigenes resident in Lagos.

Makurdi—Benue State governorship candidate of Social Democratic Party, SDP,  Mr. Hinga Biam, has said the state leadership of the party was yet to sanction the adoption of President Muhammadu Buhari as its presidential candidate in the coming general election.