Osun Decides: I’ll block leakages, expand revenue – Oyebamiji
Political competition should never degenerate into violence. Regardless of political differences, we remain members of the same communities and citizens of the same state
June 12: How Govt divided NEC to sustain annulment by Tonnie Iredia (2)
A black-clad gunman killed at least four people in a shooting rampage in the US state of California Friday, before police shot him dead in a college library, officials said.
Anenih’s call for automatic ticket for President, Govs is satanic – Ihonvbere
Professor Julius Ihonvbere is a renowned political activist, as a matter of fact one of those who fought doggedly in wrestling power from the military. He was the former Special Adviser to President Olusegun Obasanjo on Programmes Monitoring and Project Implementation.
E.K. CLARK AT 86: I speak the truth, I damn the consequence
Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark has great credentials: a lawyer, an administrator, Ijaw national leader, a nationalist, a freedom fighter and leader, South South Peoples Assembly. He was Commissioner for Education, Mid-Western Region, 1968-71; Commissioner for Finance and Establishment, Bendel State, 1972-75; Federal Commissioner for Information, 1975; and senator, 1979-83. In this interview, the Kiagbodo born elder statesman, who turned 86 recently, bares his mind on Nigeria then and now. Excerpts:
20 YEARS AFTER JUNE 12 (1): What transpired inside Aso Rock just before annulment – Tonnie Iredia, NEC Spokesman
Is it not amazing and amusing that 20years after the annulment of the June 12, 1993, presidential election, leaders of Nigeria’s Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, last week, engineered the annulment of the chairmanship election of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF? In 1993, Bashorun MKO Abiola of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, defeated Bashir Tofa of the National Republican Convention, NRC, but the announcement of the results was ordered suspended by an Abuja High Court (which the law had barred from entertaining the suit). This is Nigeria where anything can and, thus, happen!
Jonathan/ Amaechi face-off: Rivers crisis not in the interest of Jonathan, Amaechi, PDP – Magnus Abe
Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was a Minority Leader in the Rivers State House of Assembly, a former Commissioner for Information in the state and Secretary to the State Government.
Abe, who currently represents Rivers South East in the Senate, is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream). He chaired the Senate Joint Committee on Petroleum, Downstream, Upstream, Finance and Appropriation.In this interview, Abe bares his mind on the declaration of state of emergency in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states and the crisis in Rivers PDP, among other issues.
