This was contained in a statement signed by the commission’s Public Relations Officer, Malam Habibu Babura, on behalf of the JSIEC Chairman, Alhaji Ahmed Sani
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It said the action was necessary because Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso of the state had before his exit turned the party into the “Kwankwasiyya political movement
Abubakar, in a statement he personally signed on Sunday, said the consultation is to gauge the feelings of Nigerians
As the race to succeed Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan gets tougher on daily basis in Delta North Senatorial District, where the pendulum favours, following the political arrangement of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state, the Anioma Congress on Sunday listed seven criteria for governorship aspirants
Okanlawon said in the statement: “We are compelled to alert our people in the state at this time that ahead of the 2014 governorship election, the only thing that will be left for the PDP in it’s leaders’ desperate bid to gain power and lord it over our people is to further sharpen their capacity to lie brazenly
The Deputy National Chairman of the PDP, Uche Secondus, who was initially billed to act in Tukur’s stead before another National Convention is summoned to elect a substantive chairman, is also attending the meeting
The Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Abdu Jinjiri, told the News Agency of Nigeria that there was no report of ugly incidents throughout the period of the election
According to him, unless leaders of political parties form and maintain political ideologies on their stand, cross carpeting from one party to another will continue to exist
Kalu gave the commendation at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, late on Saturday while speaking with aviation correspondents on his return from the United Arab Emirate
The PDP equally raised the alarm over the increasing spate of violence in the state, which it accused the Governor Rotimi Amaechi administration, the Save Rivers Movement and the APC of masterminding to continue to create a state of insecurity to justify their call for the removal of the Commissioner of Police, Mbu Joseph Mbu
Two PDP members in the House of Assembly, Ibrahim Magaji Gusau and Almustapha Isa Wumo, in a suit filed at the Federal High Court in the state, prayed that the court should declare the seats of the defectors vacant
Dr Ikanya was the erstwhile Rivers State Chairman of the PPA and the Rivers State Steering Committee Chairman of the PDM before his appointment as the Interim Rivers State Chairman of the APC
Regardless of whatever shortcomings the Nigerian version of democracy may inherently have , one aspect that has seen remarkable improvement is the political awareness of the electorate who are becoming adept at smelling political deceit and subterfuge a mile off
The PDP equally raised the alarm over the increasing spate of violence in the state, which it accused the Governor Rotimi Amaechi administration, the Save Rivers Movement and the APC of masterminding to continue to create a state of insecurity to justify their call for the removal of the Commissioner of Police, Mbu Joseph Mbu
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that so far, the results of Buji, Gwaram, Kafin Hausa, Babura, Suletankarkar, Auyo, Guri, Birniwa and Yakwasi Local Government Areas, released by JSIEC Returning Officers, indicated that the Peoples Democratic Party candidates won
Sowumi said the appointment followed an earlier recommendation by the National Working Committee of the party in Abuja
Meanwhile, counting of votes in the Saturday’s council poll in Jigawa State commenced on schedule in most polling units as a result of low turn-out of voters
Speaking in Minna, the Niger State capital, at the secretariat of the party, the former FCT Minister said that the party cannot afford to make the mistake made by the defunct Congress for Progressives Change during the last general election
NAN reports that the exercise, however, started 30 minutes behind schedule in polling units in Angwan Gabas, Walawa, Fada and Eid, in Kazaure town, Kazaure Local Government Area
The governor, in his own comments on the resignation of the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, told journalists that it would not affect the gains of the APC