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Mohammed said the party had harmonised and finalised the process as well as create format for future activities that would enable the party to participate in future elections

In one of such frivolities, the APC said President and his party folks feasted joyously at a post-Peoples Democratic Party convention dinner even as hapless students were bemoaning their fate over the strike

The APC leader, who was represented by retired Colonel Hamidu Ali, said the only way to achieve success was for the party members to make sacrifice and allow a credible person to lead them

Otu said the APC did not meet Section 84 (6) of the Act, which states that for a party to contest an election, it must have been registered 90 days before the election

The party said the impunity perpetrated by the PDP has started hunting it, after its candidate in the Shawo South West Ward, Afolabi Jimoh Olawole, repudiated his so-called victory, just like one of the presiding officers, Oyetunji Akeem, said the APC won the Councillorship and Chairmanship in Shawo central ward

“Since 1999, it has been metamorphosing from one thing to another.
“Deltans don’t even know what APC stands for because as I speak to you there is no guarantee that you won’t see another group masquerading as APC very soon

The Protem chairman of the party, Chief Isaac Tobore Ajueshi, flanked by the chieftains of Congress for Progressives Change and the All Nigeria Peoples Party from the 25 council areas of the state, who received them in Asaba, Delta State, lauded the speedy harmonization process of the party and the way and manner the men and women came together to promote love and peace for the entrenchment of the party

Ngige garnered 63,255 votes to defeat Godwin Ezeemo, who polled 9,564 votes in the primaries conducted in the 326 electoral wards in the state

While appealing to its members and supporters to remain peaceful, the
APC warned against any attempt to provoke the people who went out
peacefully to elect their councillors and chairman on Saturday

Tunsah said Ezeemo had, therefore, by the decision, been cleared to contest the party’s gubernatorial primary election scheduled for September 2 by the screening panel

In a statement issued in London, United Kingdom on Friday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the APC said the allegation is also an admittance of failure on the part of the PDP, which has been in power in Kwara State in the last 10 years

In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the decision to set up the State Harmonization Committees followed the adoption of the report of the Masari

Hear him: “While one of the PDP gong-bearer, Okupe, was telling
Nigerians that President Jonathan has not informed anyone that he will
contest in 2015, his wife was coercing hundreds of hapless women,
including those in uniform, into a show of shame tagged a “Peace Rally”, but in essence a campaign for President Jonathan ahead of 2015”. He then called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to sanction anyone responsible for the event

In a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said no government worth its salt can afford to play with education, because it is the path to national development

The Presidency also described the new alliance of the opposition political parties under the aegis of All Progressives Congress as “mega nonsense, which cannot go anywhere”

The party said: “Issues, issues and issues. These are what Nigerians are interested in, not continuous muck-raking about opposition leaders like General Muhammadu Buhari and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. For example, Nigerians want to know why the country can still not feed itself after 14 years of endless promises by the PDP; Nigerians want to know why they cannot be protected by their government when the security of lives and property is the rason d’etre of any government

In a position statement co-signed by the state Acting Chairman of the party, Olorogun Tobore Isaac Ajueshi, and his Secretary, Engineer Azuka Ofili, in Asaba shortly after an enlarged meeting of the state management team, the APC said it has prepared to liberate the oil rich state from the shackles of corruption being celebrated by successive PDP governors in the state

The statement by Mohammed said: “For those who may have been misled by the media reports, we want to state our stand clearly

In a democracy, there must be ample freedom to choose, reject, discuss and debate. This is what the PDP continues to miss. In line with this principle, the PDP and its powerful ethnic Ijaw high-command have every right to present the incumbent in 2015 and Nigerians of other persuasions have a right to reject him

Since INEC has warned about campaign before the scheduled time, Ribadu’s supporters, under the aegis of Concerned Youths, only wished Muslim faithful ‘Barka Da Sallah’ for the successful completion of 2013 Ramadan