By Dapo Akinrefon & Gbenga Oke SENATOR Isiaka Abiola Ajimobi, represented Oyo South Senatorial  District of Oyo State from 1999-2007 in the National Assembly. He also contested the governorship election on the platform of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) in 2007. Ajimobi, who recently returned to the Action Congress (AC) told Vanguard in this […]

Governor Ikedi Ohakim of Imo State stirred the hornet nest when he dumped the Peoples Progressive Alliance, PPA, the platform on which he won his mandate, for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. But the governor has been using every opportunity to explain and justify the reason for his action. As far as he is concerned, […]

MR Dimeji Sabur Bankole was two years as speaker of the House of Representatives, November 2, 2009. In July, 2009, a plot to unseat him was revealed at the plenary session of the day, bringing the total attempts to remove his leadership to at least four since he assumed office. But, somehow, he survived.

First of all, I want to explain that with what has happened over the years, there has been a lot of pollution, mainly from industries, which occurred in the process of industrialization and what that has done is that it has increased the temperature of the atmosphere, increased the water level and, of course, you can see that there is a lot of flooding and erosion going on around the world now.

PDP in Oyo is comatose right now. It is lying down almost unconscious waiting for the surgeon to come. The surgeon is Ike Nwachukwu and his committee. If they perform well, they may resuscitate the party in the state. And if they fail, the history will tell and they would have destroyed the PDP in Oyo State .

You know that this government is just two years plus. In the life of any human being two years is very insignificant to begin to judge somebody. Why not wait when that person he completed his constitutional mandated period before you begin to criticize.

All these insecurity is due to unemployment. People, young people go to the university and graduate and stay for years without job. There is nothing to do. And there is no power supply to get them busy on their own. Some of the graduates who could be self-employed today are not because there is no power supply to sustain them. The industries that could employ them don’t have power to operate.

Since April 2003 governorship election in Anambra, the state has not known peace literarily speaking. It has been series of cases over the state governorship seat. The first casualty of the series of litigations was former governor Dr. Chris Ngige who was sacked by the Court of Appeal sitting in Enugu in an appeal petition filed by Governor Peter Obi, the All Progressive Grand Alliance APGA candidate. Obi himself has fought and won three major legal battles.

The recent postponement of zonal sittings of the Senate Committee on Constitution Review from November 2009 to next month has once again put a big question mark on whether the constitution amendment exercise which the National Assembly has embarked upon would be concluded within the life span of the present federal legislature.

Before its recent unity rally that produced a new executive, Edo State People’s Democratic Party PDP had been bogged down by multiple internal crises. But all that came to an end at the rally attended by stakeholders in the state .The new chairman, Mr Dan Orbih spoke on how the party plans to recapture the state from Action Congress AC. Excerpts:

The political tension in Edo state is heating up every day and as expected there is bitterness between the ruling Action Congress (AC) and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state.

FOR Mr. Benjamin Nnamdi Ekwueme, serving in the Imo State cabinet is not only a privilege but service to the people of his state. Ekwueme, an engineer, is Special Adviser to the Imo State Governor, Ikedi Ohakim, on Project Monitoring and Implementation, and was recently honoured by the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) with fellowship awards.

Chairman Senate Committee on Works, Senator Julius Ucha was in Ebonyi State recently and fielded questions from newsmen on his committee’s oversight function as it pertains to Nigeria’s roads; the dredging of River Niger and the constitutional review.
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Senator Francis Spanner Okpozo was a senator in the Third Republic and former Deputy Speaker in the defunct Bendel State House of Assembly. He is also the leader of Isoko Ethnic Nationality of Delta State. In this interview with Vanguard, he spoke on electoral reforms independent candidacy election rigging.

*’How Obasanjo hijacked ANPP, tried to take over DPP’ * ‘Speaks on life out of office, experience in school as student Dalhatu Bafarawa, immediate past governor of Sokoto State, in this interview, says the 2011 general elections  will be different with the emergence of  the new party, National Democratic Movement, NDM,  being promoted  by different […]