The zoning was not restricted only to the office of the President as it has to stretch to the office of the Senate President, Deputy Senate President, the Speaker and Deputy Speakers, the Chairmanship of the party and other positions within the party.

The governor’s plan is to ensure that by the end of his first term in office all the communities in Akwa Ibom will have the benefit of electrification. The strategy we adopt is different. When we intervene in any local government, it is 100% coverage and no village or community is left out.

When Obasanjo became the president of this country, he realized that he came through some sort of fraudulent mechanism and knowing that president Obasanjo is somebody who does not believe in multiparty democracy.

As early as 8am same day, all roads to Michael Okpara Square, Independence Layout Enugu, venue of the grand reception for their son, the Ezeanyanwu of Ukehe in Igbo Etiti Local government area of the state were filled up with buses making vehicular movement literarily impossible; the people came from all parts of the country with loaded buses.

My view is that what is legal and which is enshrined in section 14 of the constitution is the federal character principle. It simply means that the main positions of government, not just at the federal level but also at the state level represents some kind of spread at the state level based on the component local governments and at the federal level based on the states.

The Action Congress party, AD was among the parties that contested the last governorship election in the state. Its candidate then was Adonye Pepple. When Vanguard spoke with him to find out how his party was preparing for the coming governorship election he said nobody had indicated interest to run at the moment. He said they were still watching. “We are waiting for the electoral reform before we will know what next to do at the party in the state”, he said

THERE are indications that the entire leadership of the Progressive Peoples Alliance ( PPA) may defect en-masse to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) by next week. This development was confirmed last Thursday by a member of the Board of Trustees of PPA, Dr. Sam Nkire in a telephone interview with Saturday Vanguard.

Self-styled former Military President, Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, rtd, is determined to contest the 2011 presidential polls. And unlike what happened in 2007 when he threw in the towel, at the last minute, he is ready to go the whole hog this time, his supporters have said.

We expect the North to be the first people to always stand up and endorse any of our demand but to our pain, it is the North that will always kick against anything that we demand for in Nigeria. That type of betrayal is worse than Judas Iscariot’s betrayal. That was why our leaders led by Chief E.K. Clark walked out of the Obasanjo government organised political conference. Our leaders were so bitter that the North is against every demand from our region. And they walkout, it was the greatest thing ever done by our leaders and now we want the North to repent.

Any time an election is drawing closer, there are bound to be people who have interests presenting their interests in various ways. Yes, the so called schism is there in the PDP but I believe it is a presentation of interests of people inside PDP who presently are not in governance, who are not in elective or

appointive offices but want to get into offices.