Aliyu stated this when he paid a visit to the Emir of Kagara, Alhaji Garba Attahiru, during a stop over of the gubernatorial campaign team of the Peoples Democratic Party at Kagara town in Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State
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On Saturday at the General Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign rally in Ado-Ekiti, students stormed the venue and insisted that their leader, Tosin Ogunkuade, be allowed to talk on their behalf
And as is customary, it will see the admirable pharmacist cum politician answering questions from the house as well as sharing his dreams for Lagos State with the audience
Lungu said the new Zambian vice-president was a unifying person in the governing party, who stood with him when the party was divided into factions following the death of President Michael Sata last October
The party said it is now apparent that the PDP Presidential Campaign Organization is out of tune with developments within its own party, hence its spokesman considers the APC’S statement that the attack was orchestrated by the PDP, as ‘absurd and reckless’, without a shred of evidence to support that specious argument
According to Fashola, the directive to shut the platform was contained in a letter signed by the Director of Consumer Affairs, Maryam Bayi; and Head of Legal and Regulatory Services, Yinka Akinloye, on behalf of the NCC Executive Vice-Chairman, Dr. Eugene Juwah
The cash was said to have been delivered to Ladoja few days after the flopped Peoples Democratic Party presidential campaign rally in Ibadan in partial fulfilment of the pledge made by the President in exchange for the former governor’s agreement to work for his electoral success
Eyewitnesses at the Pwajok campaign rallies said the governorship candidate was booed in Shendam, which is home town to the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate, Barrister Simon Bako Lalong, while a mild drama occurred in Langtang South Local Government Area when two House of Assembly candidates of the party and their supporters had a confrontation
The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, stated that leaders and members of the party are working hard in all the nooks and crannies of the country to garner the needed support
Alkali made the assertion in response to a communiqué issued by a group claiming to be speaking on behalf of President Goodluck Jonathan’s Support Groups, who are claiming they were not integrated into the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation
Five people were reportedly injured and 10 vehicles belonging to an independent team of Akinwunmi Ambode, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Lagos State, were badly damaged
In the statement signed by its Secretary, Musa Garba Musa, the Campaign Organisation said it received with shock the rumour that the deputy governor had defected
The Osun State Governor, OgbeniRauf Aregbesola, had said during the APC presidential campaign in Ado Ekiti on Saturday that an airport will be built in Ekiti State if General Muhammadu Buhari becomes the president
He added: “It is quite unfortunate that the chief security officer of the state who claimed to have achieved sustainable peace in the state can be sponsoring hoodlums to attack those they considered as political threat
The governor also said the APC has been proved wrong by lies that he had scheduled a rally for same Saturday to disrupt their presidential rally and possibly to retaliate attacks on the convoy of President Goodluck Jonathan in Katsina and Bauchi States
The APCPCO said in a statement by Garba Shehu, the Director of Media and Publicity of the campaign, that the irresponsible ultimatum by the ex-militants is not only a barbaric threat on the sovereignty of Nigeria, but goes against the spirit and letter of the non-violence pact to which President Jonathan is a signatory
The Campaign Organisation expressed shock that the spokesperson of the opposition APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, could come up with such allegation
Addressing a press conference in Abuja, the leader of the Group, Dr. Amaechi Nwaiwu, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, said having relied on the school certificate in an affidavit sworn to at an Abuja High Court on November 24 last year, Buhari is duty bound to personally present the certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission or face the consequences spelt out by the law for perjury
The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, in a statement on Sundaydetailed that the PDP is the only truly pan-Nigerian party for which the unity, stability and prosperity of the nation remain paramount
Consequently, the PDP said it would host President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, its presidential candidate, on Wednesday for the presidential campaign at the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium