PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan and a Presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP said, yesterday, that zoning of the presidency in the PDP had been among the six geo-political zones and not between the North and the South as being claimed by some presidential aspirants and their supporters.

SECURITY operatives, yesterday, chained the Banquet Hall of Hotel Concorde, Owerri venue, of the Igbo Political Stakeholders Conference 2010 and prevented Igbo political leaders led by former Vice President, Dr Alex Ekwueme, from entering the venue.

LAGOS—DEPUTY Senate Leader and member National Assembly Joint Committee on Constitution Review, Senator Victor Ndoma Egba SAN, yesterday, said that fresh amendment of the 1999 Constitution and Electoral Act 2010 would be tight but stressed that the exercise would be carried out because of the exige

Both the Federal and State governments are splitting hairs over their lean resources but Vanguard can confirm that contrary to cries of insolvency by state governors and Federal Government officials, fiscal indiscipline and profligacy constituted the biggest threat to the 2011 elections and the economy in general.

The 12-member Committee set up to pick a consensus candidate for the North has met with the presidential aspirants – former military president, Ibrahim Babangida, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former National Security Adviser, NSA, General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau (rtd), and Kwara State governor, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki.

Arise posits that the wish of the people is supreme as the act would require amendment of the electoral act or even the constitution and sees it as expensive and disorganising and could put Nigeria in a bad light.

President Goodluck Jonathan has sacked all the General Officers Commanding (GOC) various units in the Nigerian Army.

AHEAD the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC’s meeting with the National Assembly on Monday, the legal implications of its proposal to postpone the 2011 polls to April have continued to raise dusts in the polity.

A seven-man team from the UN Environment Programme, UNEP, has arrived to investigate the extent of lead poisoning which has killed many people, mostly children, in Zamfara, since May.

NATIONAL leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, suspended all Congresses and Primaries earlier scheduled to commence this week till further notice.

FORMER Vice President and presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, Wednesday, warned that President Goodluck Jonathan’s insistence on running in 2011 will polarize the country.

CHAIRMAN of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, yesterday, said the commission would need up to April 2011 for it to be able to conduct elections that would not only be credible but would be seen as ‘Grade A’ by all stakeholders and observers

CHAIRMAN of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, will today meet chairmen and secretaries of all registered political parties to work out the possibility of exploring legal means to extend the forthcoming compilation of Voters Registers as well as the 2011 elections.

INDEPENDENT national Electoral Commission, said, yesterday, that the time line for the compilation of voters’ register as well as the elections proper was too short.

President Goodluck Jonathan took Nigerians on a 20 minute journey into his early life yesterday and declared
that if he was able to surmount all the challenges on his path to become President today, they (Nigerians) and the country could also prevail over setbacks and achieve greatness under him.