The INEC Chief Returning Officer, Alhaji Umar Sani, said that the PDP candidate polled 22,431 to defeat his close rival of the All Progressive Congress, who scored 11,533 votes
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In a statement issued in Lagos on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the fact that Maku is of the Eggon ethnic stock, to which the Ombatse cult/militia group behind the Nasarawa State crisis has been linked, has made his new role as the Supervising Minister of Defence untenable
The party accused Governor Amaechi of wasting billions of naira belonging to Rivers State people on the formation, maintenance and funding of the APC’s activities in his quest to secure a platform to actualize his 2015 political ambition
It said the lessons of the Boko Haram crisis, which, through the same attitude now being exhibited towards the Nasarawa State crisis, was allowed to fester and then degenerate into a slow-motion warfare, should guide the Federal Government to quickly bring the Nasarawa State crisis under control
It however warned that giving presidential backing to the police – or any national institution at all – to commit impunity and violate the
nation’s Constitution is the fastest means to destroy such
institutions and erode public confidence in them
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”