APC candidate, Chief Timipre Sylva says his party remains the best platform to bring the desired change in Bayelsa just as he has dismissed claims by his rivals that the PDP is an Ijaw party.

AHEAD of the 2016 governorship election in Edo State, the state chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr Anselm Ojezua, has warned party leaders to desist from creating tension in the party as a result of their loyalty to any of the governorship aspirants of the party, assuring that the party will be fair to all aspirants during the primaries.

Ahead of the historic decision to be announced by the National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress in Abuja today, strong indications have shown that Yahaya Bello may be declared as the candidate of the party ahead of the December 5 supplementary poll of the party.

National leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, were last night locked in a meeting with some of the party’s governors in Abuja, weighing options to disqualify the All Progressives Congress, APC, from the December 5, supplementary elections in Kogi State.

President Muhammadu Buhari among other eminent Nigerians attended the burial ceremony of late Chief HID Awolowo in Ikenne Ogun State on Wednesday…See photos.

The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has said that it is aware of the suffering and hardship that Nigerians are passing through, occasioned by the biting fuel scarcity across the country.

EFFORTS by senators of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to convince the Senate to summon President Muhammadu Buhari to give reasons for the ongoing fuel scarcity in the country, were frustrated, yesterday, by their counterparts in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, invited the All Progressives Congress, APC, to forward a replacement for Prince Abubakar Audu, its dead candidate in the inconclusive Kogi State governorship election, thereby throwing up fresh legal and political firestorm in the state.

THE Restoration Campaign Organisation of Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, has raised alarm over the alleged unleashing of terror on supporters of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, by some thugs suspected to be supporters of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Agudama-Ekpetiama, Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state.

Gov. Idris Wada of Kogi on Tuesday removed 15 chairmen of local governments from office for defecting to the rival All Progressives Congress (APC).