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.