Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC Prince Abubakar Audu has promised the people of Yagba West Local Government Area that he would end the alleged diversion of revenue meant for grassroots development.

The new Minister of National Planning and Budgeting, Sen. Udoma Udo Udoma on Thursday in Abuja said he will drive the Change agenda of the present administration through exemplary leadership and strategic planning.

Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, the newly sworn-in Minister of Science and Technology, said on Wednesday in Abuja that he would strive to be the best minister in President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet.

THE opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ondo State and the state government, yesterday, bickered over Governor Olusegun Mimiko’s request for a N7 billion loan to complete ongoing projects in the state.

Former governor of Lagos State and leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has eulogised Governor Nasir El Rufai of Kaduna state for what he said were the great things he was doing for Kaduna state, and joked that El Rufai was no longer, “an accidental public servant”

A Kogi-based group, Team Kogi 2016 has taken a swipe at Vice President Yemi Osinbajo for raising the hand of Prince Abubakar Audu, despite the corruption cases hanging on the neck of the APC governorship candidate.

Dark clouds are appearing over the campaign promise of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to pay a monthly stipend of N5,000 to unemployed poor when voted to power.

As the forthcoming governorship election in Bayelsa State approaches, with less than a month to go, interesting permutations are emerging as the gladiators prepare to display their much-touted rival strengths in contest.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday, led a high-powered delegation of All Progressives Congress, APC, leaders and governors to the Kogi Central campaign rally of the party in support of its governorship candidate in the November 21 election, Prince Abubakar Audu.

Former Governor of Bayelsa State and candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, in the December 5, election, Chief Timipre Sylva, yesterday, said that the painful experience of his exit from office in 2012 and his travails in the hands of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had toughened and made him a better person to govern the state.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as cheap blackmail the decision by the Kogi State government and the PDP Governors’ Forum to blame political interference for the delay in releasing bailout funds for the state.

The flag-bearer of All Progressives Congress, APC, for the November 21 governorship election in Kogi State, Prince Abubakar Audu, has said he knows how to fix the problems of the state better than any other candidate in the poll.

THE flag-bearer of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kogi State governorship election scheduled for November 21, Prince Abubakar Audu, and his running mate, Mr. James Faleke, have signed a social contract with women in the state, vowing to ensure their growth and development, if elected.

A youth group within the All Progressives Congress, Kogi Youths for Probity, KYB, has dissociated itself from the candidate of the party, calling the candidature of Prince Audu “an aberration of the ideals of a progressive party”.

ABOUT 1000 youth members of the APC in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area, weekend, defected to the PDP.