Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s alleged plans to enthrone a reliable successor could well be threatened by the overflow of developments in the Edo State House of Assembly. Esan political leaders in the governor’s APC, according to sources, are peeved by the governor’s failure to restore the former speaker of the state House of Assembly, Victor Edoror to office, a development that saw the speakership being moved from their zone to Edo South Senatorial zone.

The determination of PDP governors to ensure that the party emerges victorious in the forthcoming governorship election is said to be increasingly challenged as they are seemingly confused over who of the four aspirants to support.

The PDP 2012 governorship candidate, General Charles Airhiavbere yesterday fully showed his political transformation when he picked the 2016 governorship form of the APC.

The National Chairman of Labour Party, LP, Alhaji Abdulkadir Abdulsalam, in this interview with Vanguard in Abuja, took a swipe at the All Progressives Congress, ACP administration which he said has failed to provide purposeful and desired change Nigerians yearned for.

THE Prince Olagusoye Oyinlola led peace committee sent to Edo State by the national leadership of the party, met with stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the weekend to find a lasting solution to the problem confronting the party in the state ahead the governorship election.

Dr. Isaiah Osifo, who served as chief of staff in the Oserheimen Osunbor administration, has called for the application of zoning in the determination of the APC governorship candidate as a way of bringing the needed political balance to the state.

THE five South-South governors elected on the platform of the PDP may have decided to take up Comrade Adams Oshiomhole on his claim that he would defeat all of them in their respective states in one on one popularity contests.

APC governorship aspirant Blessing Agbomhere has taken his bitterness against Comrade Adams Oshiomhole to new heights with a call on the national party to suspend the comrade governor for allegedly trying to impose an aspirant as the candidate.

Politician, businessman and statesman, Chief Don Etiebet, was an early enthusiast for democracy who memorably established the National Centre Party of Nigeria, NCPN, in those difficult days of General Sanni Abacha, when the democratic space was saturated with the foul odour of regimented politics. He had left his position as minister of petroleum in the Abacha regime to give life to an alternative voice to the cacophony of political wanderers championing Abacha’s transmutation into a civilian president. His independence was, however, brought under check after a spell in detention at the end of which the former minister abandoned his NCPN and his famed presidential aspiration to join the United Nigeria Centre Party, UNCP, one of the supposedly leprous five parties advocating Abacha’s continued rule.

A tip from a CIA spy to authorities in apartheid-era South Africa led to Nelson Mandela’s arrest, beginning the leader’s 27 years behind bars, a report said on Sunday.