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.

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Some were offered N250million. I know the former Majority Leader, Honourable Abdul Ningi who was with us was offered N400million and Speaker Aminu Bello Masari, N500million

In all of these, our overall goal is economic development and in getting at that economic development, we have to put a few things down in terms of infrastructures and in this regard, we are talking about transportation: the airport, seaport, road and of course railway and talking about power, you cannot say we have not done anything because we are part-funding what the Federal Government is doing in terms of the independent power plant and we are also starting our own independent power plant in the state. We have done the necessary works and started on ground and in the area of ICT, we are already doing the basic programme in our schools, we have trained over 8,000 secondary school students in computer appreciation and even the workers too.

The tone of despair that rent the Sheraton Hotel venue of the gathering was not too unfamiliar with the announcement that eclipsed the country’s second attempt at democratic rule in 1983.