Given the particular landmarks of the outgoing governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, it is not surprising that there is much trepidation among political stakeholders on the choice of his successor.

Leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the Southwest converged in the Lagos home of Aremo Segun Osoba to forge a much-needed reconciliation with their host. However, the result of their peace shooting exercise is apparently beyond simple political projections.

Certainly I was among the first and I will say that I paid to serve. Secondly, I thought that I would just come in and help organise things and go back to what I was doing. But as chairman of the Economic Team, I realised that what we had anticipated that existed in government did not exist.

I want to govern Edo State because I truly believe that the state is in the throes of a motor park democracy and I also believe that for us to move the state forward, we must change the way things are done. I also truly believe that the time has come when we cannot allow ourselves to continue to play the ostrich. But to change Edo State, the people must change their state of mind

Only the state that identifies itself as the Heartbeat of the Nation could have thrown up the promising matchup between uncle and nephew for a party governorship ticket. Edo State with its outgoing, very active comrade governor, Adams Oshiomhole has indeed not disappointed with its surfeit of governorship aspirants in the two major political parties.

FOR the April 9 Area Council polls, the battle line has been drawn between the All Progressives Congress, APC and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja. Already, both parties are perfecting strategies to outwit each other at the polls.

RIGHTS activist, Chief Mrs. Rita Lori-Ogbebor in this interview calls on Delta State governor, Sen Ifeanyi Okowa not to append his signature to the budget of Delta State Oil Minerals Producing Areas Development Commission prepared by the representatives of the Itsekiri ethnic group on the board of the commission. She noted that any budget without the input of the Itsekiri people, would only promote the interest of a privileged few.

The imminent return of the immediate past speaker of the Akwa Ibom House of Assembly to the House has set tongues wagging over the prospects of a leadership tussle. Should there be?

Though the 2015 governorship election in Enugu State, has been concluded and Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi sworn-in, yet there are insinuations that echoes from the 2011 governorship election before it may still be haunting political stakeholders in the state. This is because of a 2011 gubernatorial pre-election case filed by Dr. Chukwuemeka Obechina of the PDP still pending at the Supreme Court which is due for hearing on Wednesday, April 6. Obechina was an aspirant who filed a court case who filed a case against the PDP governorship candidate for that election, Chief Sullivan Chime who he claimed was not validly nominated.

Mr. Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on media and publicity commenced his journalism career in Vanguard and progressed through a couple of other media houses and was Managing Director and Editor in Chief of Sun Publishing Limited before his appointment as the president’s spokesman.