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  • Two Reps members resign from APC

    Two members of All Progressives Congress (APC) in the House of Representatives on Thursday resigned their membership from the ruling party.
    The lawmakers announced their resignation in two separate letters to the green chambers which were read on the floor of the House by Speaker Yakubu Dogara.

    This came less than 24 hours after another two members of the APC in the House – Babatunde Kolawale (Ondo) and Mukaila Kazzim (Ogun) – announced their resignation from the party.

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    The members, who left the party at Thursday plenary, are Ahmed Abu and Friday Olemija. Abu, who represents Mokwa/Edati/Lavun Federal Constituency in Niger State, defected to the Social Democratic Party (SDP), while Olemija, who represents Akoko North East‎/North West Federal Constituency of Ondo State, left for the Action Alliance (AA).

    In their letters, both lawmakers made references to irreconcilable issues relating to the party’s primaries as part of the reasons for the resignation and defection.
    The legislators said after due consultations with their constituents, it was time for them to part ways with the APC.

    NAN

  • Ekiti 2018: 25 political parties adopt Fayemi

    The governorship bid of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has received a boost as he has been adopted by twenty five political parties.

    Citing what they called Fayemi’s “superlative and sparkling credentials” and life-changing policies and projects during his first tenure, the parties pledged to work for his victory at the Saturday poll.

    The parties also praised President Muhammadu Buhari for reducing corruption in the Nigerian society, saying this will help in stabilizing the country economically within the next few years.

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    Addressing reporters on Wednesday, KOWA Party State Chairman and spokesman of the group, Pastor Ade Ogunkolade, said the decision was arrived at “in the interest of Ekiti

    Some of the parties include Action Alliance (AA), Alliance for Democracy (AD), African Democratic Congress (ADC), National Conscience Party (NCP), All Progressives Congress (APC), Advanced Congress of Democrats (ACD), National Action Congress (NAC), among others.

    Ogunkolade said Fayemi was the first governor to introduce free education up to the secondary level in the state unlike now when kindergartens were being mandated to pay taxes even in private schools.

    He said apart from declaring free education for pupils, that Fayemi also created avenues for employments of youths, such as the State Peace Corps, Volunteer Corps, Social Security scheme, among other policies that affected the lives of the masses positively.

    He said: “After careful studies of all these achievements, the CNPP decided to give him all the necessary supports and strongly advise Ekiti people to come out on Saturday ad vote massively for Dr Fayemi to return Ekiti to the golden age of abundance.

    “Ekiti people must not be deceived into another era of anarchy, tyranny oppression, indebtedness and deception”.

    The CNPP condemned Governor Fayose for allegedly incurring a staggering sum of N117 billion as debt as revealed by the Debt Management Office (DMO) without nothing to show for it as achievements.

    “We appeal to the federal government to deploy more policemen to the State to prevent any rigging by the PDP-led government in the state.”

    CNPP appealed to Ekiti electorate to cooperate with security agencies to make the coming election a success.

  • LASIEC clears 12 parties for July 22 council polls

    LASIEC clears 12 parties for July 22 council polls

    Ahead of the July 22 council polls, the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) says it has cleared 12 political parties out of the 23 registered for the elections.

    Mr Dapo Olatunde, LASIEC’s Director of Publicity, said in a statement that the cleared parties had met the commission’s requirements for the polls and also presented candidates for validation.

    Olatunde listed the parties as the All Progressives Congress (APC), Action Alliance (AA), Alliance for Democracy (AD), Labour Party (LP), All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and Accord Party.

    Others are Kowa Party, National Action Council (NAC) , People’s Democratic Movements (PDM) ,United Democratic Party (UDP)
    and United Progressive Party (UPP).

    He said the names of the validated candidates had been displayed at the commission’s headquarters for observation by party members and members of the public.

    Meanwhile, the commission has begun a three-day “Train -the-Trainer”course for its electoral officers across the 20 local government areas and 37 local council development areas.

    According to Olatunde, the training, facilitated by the International Foundation for Electoral System (IFES), was to equip ad-hoc staff engaged for the July 22 elections.

    IFES is a United States-based organisation committed to the deepening of democracy and international best standards in election management.

    The organization operates in more than 100 countries and is supported by USAID.

  • Action Alliance vows to win council polls in Cross River

    Action Alliance vows to win council polls in Cross River

    The Action Alliance (AA) in Cross River State has vowed to work hard to ensure it wins some chairmanship and Councillorship in the local governments slated for June 17 this year.

    The new chairman of the party, Mr Francis Offiong Ani, made the vow after a congress to elect a new executive council of the party in Calabar, the state capital.

    “We believe that with God on our side we are going to greater heights. In the upcoming local government elections we are assuring our members that would we are sure to take some seats at the chairmanship and councillorship levels.  Even after that, in subsequent elections we would still work hard to win.

    “We are mobilizing members across the 18 local government areas of the state. We are calling on all members, even those who left to come back and let all of us work as a team for the benefit of us all and the state,” Ani said.

    A representative of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) headquarters in Abuja, Mr Damian Akhame described the congress as free and fair.

    “Everybody is allowed to express their franchise has been done here. It was a democratic process and the people were given the opportunity to vote candidates of their choice to pilot the affairs of the party for the next four years. It was a free and fair congress,” he said.

    The executive council of the party in the state has Mr Francis Offiong Ani as chairman, Mary Stephen Mbia as Vice Chairman and Ferdinand Ntanu as Secretary.

    Others are Martin Egbala (Deputy Secretary), Donald Edem Edet (Treasurer), Emilia Bassey (Deputy Financial Secretary), Eyo Eyo Ita (Auditor), Anozeng Sunday Edem (Publicity Secretary), Deborah Okey (Legal Adviser), Effiom Ekeng (Youth Leader), Dorcas Agbor (Women Leader), and Ita Offiong Ekpenyong Deputy Youth Leader).

     

  • 268, 942 people eligible to vote in Lagos bye-election – INEC

    268, 942 people eligible to vote in Lagos bye-election – INEC

    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that only 268, 942 of the 340, 634 registered voters in Ifako/Ijaiye Federal Constituency in Lagos can vote in Saturday’s bye election in the constituency.
    Mr Clement Oha, The Administrative Secretary of INEC in the state, said that only 268,942 registered voters in the constituency possessed Permanent Voter’s Cards (PVCs).

    Oha spoke to Journalists on the sidelines of a stakeholders’ forum organised by the commission with political parties involved in the election.

    Oha said: “Only 268, 942 eligible voters have in their possession PVCs to exercise their voting right on Saturday election.

    “We are no longer distributing PVCs; only these people will be allowed to vote. We want to beg people who have no business with the exercise to steer clear.”
    He noted that some voters who had PVCs might have relocated from the constituency while some might have died.

    Oha said that INEC was ready for the poll, and urged voters to arrive at their polling units early.
    He said that accreditation and voting would commence simultaneously at 8a.m.

    The official said that INEC would conduct a free, fair and transparent poll.

    Oha urged politicians and their supporters to be peaceful before, during and after the poll.

    He said that the constituency had 335 polling units and 687 voting points, urging party agents to cooperate with INEC for a successful poll.

    Six political parties are to contest in the poll, they are: Action Alliance (AA), Alliance for Democracy (AD), African Democratic Party (ADC), All Progressives Congress (APC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Social Democratic Party (SDP).

    The bye-election resulted from the death of Mr Elijah Adewale, who represented the constituency in the House of Representatives.

    Adewale died in Abuja on July 20.

  • Edo poll: KOWA calls for cancellation of results

    Edo poll: KOWA calls for cancellation of results

    • LP, NNPP objects

    The KOWA Party on Thursday called for the cancellation of the Edo State gubernatorial election results following reports of violence and irregularities in certain areas.

    KOWA’s agent at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) headquarters in Benin City, Thompson Osadolor had raised called for the cancellation  following the commission’s cancellation of results in areas where ballot boxes were snatched or card readers not used for authentication.

    He said that since it was obvious that such issues including the open inducement of voters at polling units occurred at different places, INEC should out rightly cancel the entire results and bar parties found culpable from contesting a new election.

    His submission was however countered by agent of the  New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) Joyce Edekere and her Labour Party counterpart.

    According to Edekere, NNPP would not back the call for cancellation because it was unnecessary.

    “We’re not joining the call for a cancellation of the elections because we think there’s no justification for such. The elections were fair and INEC gave direct answers to the questions that were raised about elections.”

    Similarly, Labour Party said the elections were generally peaceful, free and fair, insisting that it was baseless to demand cancellation, considering the resources and time put into achieving the outcome.

    “This election was very peaceful. On as much as there were a few issues in some places, INEC has done the accurate thing by cancelling the results of the places affected. We do not see the need for cancellation and we do not support the call.”
    Of the 18 Local Government Areas result announced, the All Progressives Congress (APC) won 13 leaving the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) with five.

    Earlier, both PDP and Action Alliance (AA) agents demanded that the votes for Etsako Central released by INEC be recounted on grounds that it differed from the copy they got at the collation centres.