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It all started just over a week ago when the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in the course of its statutory obligations published the details of the presidential candidates and in the place of the educational qualification of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari listed an affidavit.
Buhari, the All Progressives Congress, APC presidential candidate had in the affidavit deposed thus:
As the clock chimes towards next month’s general elections, the recent redeployment of Resident Electoral Commissioners, REC, has sent chills down the spines of opposition parties in Enugu State. By Francis Igata ENUGU State has been a political flashpoint in the build up to next month’s general elections. Although the litigation dust raised from primaries
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ABOUT 40 days to the 2015 general elections, most discourse on the exercise are fixated on the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the All Progressives Congress, APC, in a country of 26 registered political parties
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Alaowei Broderick Bozimo, a renowned lawyer and elder statesman from Delta State was Minister of Police Affairs during the President Olusegun Obasanjo administration. In this interview in his Warri country home, he discusses the politics surrounding the recent acquisition of warships by High Chief Government Ekpemupolo a.k.a Tompolo for a government agency, says President Goodluck Jonathan is in good position to win the presidential election, ethnic relations in the Niger Delta among other issues
Read MoreDR. Fred Oghenesivbe, is the Director of Media and Political Communication for Otega4governor Campaign Organisation. In this interview, Oghenesivbe says that the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Olorogun O’tega Emerhor remains the most suitable, trusted, qualified candidate to be adopted by the Urhobo Progressive Union (UPU) for the 2015 elections
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FROM their looks it was evident that they were in the Ondo State for serious business that will determine their political future and continued relevance in the nation’s polity.
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Shambling and shambolic! Those are the words that best describe what has become of the distribution and collection of the Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, which represents a very significant aspect of Nigeria’s electoral process.
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Before the purported last-minute alliance between Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan and the Urhobo Progress Union (UPU) over the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primary in Delta State, not a few Urhobo were impressed with the hard-line posture the Chief Joe Omene led UPU had maintained in asserting Delta Central senatorial district’s interest in the 2015 elections, particularly the governorship.
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PRINCE Tonye Princewill is a Prince of Kalabari Kingdom of Rivers State. He was the Governorship candidate of the defunct Action Congress, ACN , a member of the Peoples Democratic Movement, PDM, and until he emerged the Labour Party (LP) gubernatorial candidate in Rivers State, was a governorship Aspirant on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
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NOBODY situated the Commissioner representing Ijaw ethnic nationality on the board of the Delta State Oil Producing Communities Development Commission, DESOPADEC, Hon Kingsley Otuaro, as the likely running mate to People’s Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate in the state, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, given the political variables until the very last minute.
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As permutations and political calculations continue to evolve towards the forthcoming general elections, chairman of the campaign committee of All Progressives Congress, APC, Lagos State Chapter, Cardinal James Omolaja Odunmbaku has said that God has ordained the progressives to continue to rule Lagos and consolidate on Mega City projects which has distinguished the state.
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THE long awaited 2015 general elections are at hand. Unlike previous elections, this year’s contests promise to be keenly contested by the respective gladiators across the country.
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Chief Sunny Onuesoke is a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Country Director of Network for Good Governance (N4GG, ). In this interview, he speaks on President Goodluck Jonathan and the 2015 general election. He also speaks on the need for the Urhobo ethnic nationality to join forces with PDP in Delta State in 2015 general elections.
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Will the one week ultimatum that a group, Rivers Elders and Leaders Council RELC handed the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to substitute its guber candidate in the state with a riverine candidate constitute any real threat if the party fails to comply?
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Senator Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa is the senator representing Delta North Senatorial District. Senator Okowa’s recent political feat in upturning political permutations in the contest for the governorship ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in his native Delta State was only reflective of the deep rooted political sagacity of the medical doctor turned politician. Senator Okowa’s political ascendancy has been on the horizon since his days first as a local government secretary, local government chairman and subsequently, commissioner in the second civilian government of Delta State.
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