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  • Court disqualifies Ogboru as APC governorship candidate

    A Federal High Court in Asaba, Delta State, has nullified the September 30, 2018 governorship primaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC) which produced Great Ogboru as its candidate.

    The plaintiff, Victor Ochei, dissatisfied with the conduct of the primaries, approached the court seeking a cancellation of the primaries and its declaration as invalid.

    Ochei’s prayers, among others, included the invalidating the results of the primaries, and that the list of delegates was not that envisaged by the consent judgment. He also sought a declaration that the aspirant did not get any advanced list of delegates prior to the primaries.

    Justice Nnamdi Dimgba ordered the cancellation of the APC governorship primaries that produced Chief Great Ogboru. He said four of the five reliefs sought by the plaintiff succeeded while relief four was not granted due to the effusion of time.

    He said: “All the reliefs sought in this suit are similar to those for which Justice Adegoke pronounced judgment on. So we grant reliefs 1,2,3,5. But relief four is rejected because the governorship election is over and the relief is spent.”

    In arriving at the judgment, Justice Dimgba said the Federal High Court has one jurisdiction and so cannot be seen giving discordant judgments.

    He said: “Having considered the decisions reached by the Federal High Court in the case of Cyril Ogodo which has similar reliefs, and the fact that some of the defendants in this suit are the same, the court has decided to follow the decisions arrived at in the Ogodo case.”

  • ‘Sanwo-Olu’s education manifesto will develop sector’

    Lagos-based educationist and social critic, Orisadare Bilkis Wonuola, has hailed the manifesto of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) governorship candidate, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, as regards the educational development of the state.

    Wonuola, who noted that the importance of education cannot be over-emphasised, said it takes an administrator with foresight, a person of virtue and substance, a competent individual with integrity, knowledge and focus, to drive the development of education in Lagos to a higher height.

    She said: “One distinguished personality that has these attributes is Babajide Sanwo-Olu. He is capable, forward-thinking, knowledgeable and reliable. It is not a surprise that APC is fielding him as its governorship candidate for Lagos State.”

    According to her, Sanwo-Olu’s government, when elected, will adopt a globally-recognised modern STEM system of education in its curriculum. STEM, according to her is a curriculum based on the idea of educating students in four specific disciplines of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, in an interdisciplinary and applied approach.

    “This is the best way to facilitate practical education and develop students’ talents and potentials. STEM teachers, I am sure, will be employed and equipped with adequate teaching materials,” she added.

  • Gaidam picks Buni as APC governorship candidate for Yobe

    Governor Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe State has  endorsed Alhaji Maimala Buni, the National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the governorship candidate for 2019 election in the state.

    The Secretary of APC in the state, Alhaji Abubakar Bakabe, confirmed the governor’s endorsement to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interview in Damaturu, saying that the governor has officially submitted the name of Buni as the consensus candidate of the party.

    Stakeholders of the party on Thursday mandated the governor to use his discretion to pick a competent successor as the party’s governorship candidate for the forthcoming election.

    APC supporters in Damaturu, have pledged their support for  Buni as the most suitable candidate to contest the governorship election on APC’s platform in 2019. An APC stalwart, Alhaji Usman Bukar said  Gaidam did the right thing for party by selecting a competent person to succeed him in 2019.

    Another stalwart, Alhaji Modu Kawu, said: “We are satisfied with the selection of Maimala as the party’s preferred candidate because of his statesmanship and commitment to the progress of the people of the state.”

     

  • Tight security as APC holds rally in Ekiti

    Heavy security cordon has been thrown around Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, ahead of the All Progressives Congress (APC) flag off rally Tuesday.

    Armed security operatives are standing guard on all major roads in the city.

    Regular policemen lined the major highway in Ikere and Ado on the route to be taken by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.

    Osinbajo is expected to touch down at Akure Airport and travel by road to Ado, which is about 50 minutes’ drive from the Ondo State capital.

    The vice president is expected to present the party flag to the APC governorship candidate, Dr. Kayode Fayemi at the rally.

    Senior party figures including the APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and former Interim National Leader, Chief Adebisi Akande, had arrived the city on Monday.

    Men of the regular and mobile police are stationed on major junctions while officers of the Federal Roads Safety Corps (FRSC) were also mobilized to ensure free flow of traffic.

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    The road adjacent to the Oluyemi Kayode Stadium was cordoned off with heavy security presence.

    Men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) and Department of State Services (DSS) were seen within and outside the stadium complex.

    People entering the stadium are being frisked before being allowed in.

    The two covered terraces of the stadium are draped in green, red, white and sky blue colours of the APC.

    Television and radio stations expected to beam the rally live are also fully on ground with their Outside Broadcast (OB) Vans and other equipment.

    They include Channels TV, Television Continental (TVC), Nigeria Television Authority (NTA), Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), Ondo State Radiovision Corporation, Adaba FM, Orange FM all based in Akure and Voice FM, Ado-Ekiti.

    Two big screens have been placed on the pitch to give the spectators a better view of events on the platform.

    Entertainers billed to perform include musicians, Adewale Ayuba, Adeniyi Sese Alhaji, Apasco and DJ Jimmy Jazz.

    Gbenga Adeyinka and Akinlade Ojo will serve as Masters of Ceremony (MCs).

     

    Details later…

  • I’ll reignite Esan Land, Obaseki assures monarch

    I’ll reignite Esan Land, Obaseki assures monarch

    The All Progressives Congress, APC governorship candidate in the September 10 election, Mr Godwin Obaseki has assured people of Esan South East Local government area that his vision for the land is to reignite its economy, create employment and bring investors to the area.

    Obaseki stated this alongside with his running mate Hon Philip Shaibu when they were led by Governor Adams Oshiomhole to the palace of the Onojie of Ubiaja.

    “My mission is to reassure you that I know Esan Land, I grew up in Esan Land, I have friends and family in Esan Land so I have a sense of commitment to the Esan people.

    “Given the opportunity, we will accelerate the things which we have started over seven years ago.

    “My responsibility is to reignite the economy of this place. I promise to construct the Ubiaja road, bring investors for mechanised rice farming Ilushi.

    “The emphasis will be to bring back the economy of this place by setting up technical centers that would repair machines that will be brought in by Investors.

    “Because of the direction we are heading, we have no choice but to work with the traditional institutions to ensure security of investors. So Trust us and give us your blessings.”

    Responding, the Onojie of Ubiaja, HRH Zaiki Curtis Aidenojie, flanked by Onojies of Emu, Oroh, and Uhodua tasked Comrade Oshiomhole on improving basic infrastructures in the area and assured Obaseki of their support in the forthcoming election.

    Also speaking, Governor Oshiomhole who thanked the monarch for receiving them commended his style of leadership in the community saying, “You are an example of what education can do in the life of any person”.

    He assured that Obaseki as next governor will improve on what has been done in the state and not slow it down.

    He listed the number of schools done in the area and noted, “My responsibility is to work hand in hand with traditional institutions for the sustained of peace and progress in the state.

    “We have delivered water to communities where it was thought impossible and Obaseki will do the remaining ones.”

    He said Chief Tom Ikimi as former minister of External Affairs constructed a road to the end of his village leaving others out stating that the government had done major roads without limitations as Edo is one.

    Oshiomhole added that those who claim that Esan land has been marginalised failed to build a school in the local government for the use of their community children.

  • APC governorship candidate urged to allow tribunal do its job

    A group, the Southern Taraba Forum for a Just Society (STFJS), yesterday urged the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Taraba State, Senator Aisha Jummai Alhassan, to allow the election petitions tribunal do its job.

    Its Coordinator, Mr. Caleb Agyu and Secretary, Hajiya Talatu Ibrahim, a lawyer, accused Senator Alhassan of “talking too much” on the election result, “instead of allowing the tribunal to do its job.”

    Darius Dickson Ishaku of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) defeated Alhassan, the only woman candidate in the governorship election, in 10 local governments, with 369,318 votes.

    The APC standard-bearer trailed the former Niger Delta Affairs minister with 275,984 votes, got from six councils.

    She petitioned the tribunal, suing Ishaku, the PDP and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for rigging. She accused security agents of being partisan.

    Senator Alhassan has been calling for the cancellation of the election. She said a fresh poll should be held.

    Agyu and Ibrahim at a news conference in Jalingo said: “Alhassan’s utterances in public portend disrespect for lawyers and law, her profession.”

    The forum reminded her that she once won the Northern Taraba Senatorial Election on the platform of the PDP when she defeated her political godfather, former Governor Jolly Nyame, who later challenged, without success, her victory in  court.

    Agyu said: “In 2011 Alhassan won a senatorial election on PDP’s platform because the party was accepted by the people. Today, Ishaku is governor because of PDP’s popularity in Taraba.”

    The body urged Governor Ishaku not to be distracted, but should remain focused in the discharge of his duties.