Soludo and the others have till Sunday to contest their disqualification
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While acknowledging that many of his political associates are involved in registering the PDM, Abubakar explained that he had no powers to stop adults with common interests from coming together to form a party
In a most predictable fashion, the rabid nature of the reaction confirms the truth that Nigeria is being run by little minds and irritants
The hoodlums cut the barbwire of his house before they scaled the parameter fence, tied his security guard, gained entrance into his living room and shot him in the stomach
However, the arrival of Senator Magnus Abe at the court premises prevented the imminent clash between the embattled local government party chairman’s supporters and the security operatives
Adeyeye had argued in a recent article that Fayemi, with his monthly salary, does not have the capacity to award scholarship to six students in higher institutions of learning
Kalu, who was on his way to deliver a lecture on Governance and Politics in Nigeria at the Atlantic Council in Washington DC, United States of America, told newsmen at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport that it was good the Independent National Electoral Commission registered the APC
Rising from their inaugural meeting on Monday, the aspirants, in a communique issued after the meeting, also said that consensus arrangement would produce a quality and marketable candidate with wide acceptability, hence their support for the advice by President Goodluck Jonathan that consensus process be used to select the 2014 governorship candidate of the PDP in Ekiti State
A source at the meeting told The Eagle Online that former local government area chairmen in Ekiti State were at the meeting
The National chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, had ordered that the Convention Committee, headed by former Information Minister, Prof. Jerry Gana, to halt preparations
Fayose is said to be opposed to the proposal of the SEC to have a consensus candidate for next year’s gubernatorial election in the state
The PDP said Nigerians already know their dictatorial antecedents.
The ruling party at the federal and in most states took stock of the activities of the two men and submitted that they are bitter because they know that “they will lose the 2015 general election despite the so called merger of their parties which is built on deceit, corruption and falsehood and as such want to invent excuses” ahead of time
Members of the Union Group at its General Assembly in Lagos, unanimously agreed that fresh congresses be conducted for the state
In the statement, Tukur urged the legislators to avoid overheating the polity by their actions, adding that democracy could not thrive in an atmosphere of violence and anarchy
Journalists, who were invited to a press briefing by officials of the party, also sustained various degrees of injuries
This was contained in a statement by Tony Okeke, the party`s Acting National Publicity Secretary, in Abuja on Monday
The Acting National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Barrister Tony Caesar Okeke, in a statement issued in Abuja, said such call was an indication that the opposition party is indeed unserious, lacked direction and only seeks to destabilize the polity
The PDP appears to have added public brawling to its list of accomplishments. The self-proclaimed largest party in Africa has turned into a fight club that employs the police as ushers for its matches
Abubakar, in an article made available to the media on Sunday on how to resolve the crisis facing the PDP in the South West, said there was no other explanation for the defeat of the party in all other elections in the zone but the presidential poll
Oyinlola said that he came to this conclusion following the pronouncement of the party that his position as the National Secretary of the PDP was vacant, a position he challenged vigorously in a letter he sent to the chairman of the National Convention Committee of the party