Last Wednesday the Court of Appeal affirmed Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola the National Secretary of the Bamanga Tukur-led mainstream of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Oyinlola is also the National Secretary of the Kawu Baraje-led faction of the party. Yesterday, the intrigues became more bizarre after the nPDP served notice on Tukur to swear in Oyinlola as National Secretary of the main faction latest by next Monday!

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Erstwhile Vice-President of the country and a founding father of the PDP, Dr. Alex Ekwueme has blessed the PDP candidate, Comrade Tony Nwoye saying he has no doubt that Nwoye would emerge victorious in the election.

SINCE President Goodluck Jonathan made u-turn on national conference and set up a 13-man committee led by Senator Femi Okurounmu, to work out modalities for holding the dialogue, the polity has been awash with mixed views concerning the necessity or otherwise of the exercise.

Akintoba Fatigun, chairman-elect of Ekiti Local Government area of Kwara State is a seasoned journalist who before now worked for eight years as Special Assistant on Media and Communications with then Governor Bukola Saraki. He spoke on his experience so far on the political field and his blueprint for his people. Excerpts:

Chief Cliff Mbagwu, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), management consultant and chairman of Simeon and Rose Associates, wants Nigerians to embrace the proposed national conference with all their might and shun acts that could dismember the country because having lived together for 100 years, interrelated and inter-mingled the pain of separation would be more severe now than that of remaining together. Rather, he said efforts should be channelled on how to make the union work in a sustainable manner. Excerpts: