CONSEQUENT upon the support of the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar, for zoning which the Northern Political Leaders’ Forum, NPLF, secured recently, President Goodluck Jonathan has also been courting some Emirs with a view to securing their support for next year’s presidential elections.

Former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu is canvassing the emergence, through elections, of a leadership that can wage a vigorous and sustainable war against corruption.

Former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission , EFCC , Malam Nuhu Ribadu, weekend relived his political persecutions during the late President Umaru Yar’Adua’s administration adding that his problem with the regime was because those he was at the verge of charging to court for corruption later took over the reins of government.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday said it would issue next week the guidelines for the forthcoming 2011 general elections even as it revealed that about 360,000 personnel would be recruited for the exercise.

MINORITY members of the House of Representatives, yesterday, said they were in agreement with former President Olusegun Obasanjo on his accusation that the National Assembly was corrupt. They, however, insisted that Obasanjo was their “grand-father in corruption”