“I can tell you also that any candidate or party that comes out with the face of ethnicity or the issue of religion, that party, that candidate, I can assure you, has failed that election before it starts.” 

Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, said yesterday that the Federal Government was borrowing money to fund petrol subsidies, insisting that the subsidy regime had become totally unsustainable.

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige said that he decided to stay away from the All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential campaigns or any other political party because the four frontrunners for the presidency are good candidates who have the requisite cognate experience in Government business at state and federal levels.

RIVERS state All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Joe Korka-Waadah, has said Governor Nyesom Wike’s ambition is getting in the way of those running for Senate, Assembly, Reps, who must be regretting drowning with him for joining his petty war to fight anyone who doesn’t align with his overbearing desperation to have his way all the time.

A Peoples Democratic Party chieftain in Ebonyi State, Chief Abia Onyike, yesterday said Ebonyi people will determine who will succeed Governor David Umahi, and not the incumbent Governor himself.