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  • ‘Wike plotting to overturn our victory’

    National Chairman of the Peoples Party of Nigeria (PPN) Razak Eyiowuawi has alerted to plans by Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike to overturn the victory of the party’s House of Assembly candidate for Gokana state constituency, Gumba Gbabara.

    Eyiowuawi warned that any attempt to tamper with the result would be resisted.

    A statement yesterday by Eyiowuawi said: “It has been brought to our notice that River State Governor Nyesom Wike is trying to bribe officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) handling the collation of already declared results where PPN won the state Assembly election.

    “PPN, hereby, warns that it is time Governor Wike and his cohorts are called to order and allow INEC do the needful by declaring our candidate winner.”

    PPN Rivers State Chairman Stanley Worlu, in a petition to the Police Commissioner yesterday, said: “From the resolution of INEC’s National Collation Committee Report on the suspended River State election, it has come to our notice that Gokama Local Government is among the councils claims elections did not hold.

    “To the best of our knowledge, this is not correct, as election held in all the wards in Gokama, and unit results announced by the presiding officers. Copies of the results are with INEC and the police.

    “We, therefore, request the Commissioner for Police to make the available copies of Gokama Council governorship and House of Assembly election results for collation.”

  • Ex-Abacha’s aide Mustapha wins PPN presidential ticket

    Former Chief Security Officer to the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, has clinched the presidential ticket of the People’s Party of Nigeria (PPN).
    According to the Chairman, PPN Presidential Primary Elections Committee,  Mr. Dare Adekolu, Al-Mustapha won with 3,564,262 votes to beat Dr. Imuetinyan Igbinnosa, who garnered 2,183,856 votes and Chief Isiaka Olorunnimbe who polled 1,400,755 votes.
    Adekolu who collated election results from the 36 states and the FCT at the PPN Presidential Primaries/2018 National Convention which held in Ado Ekiti, declared Al-Mustapha as the party’s presidential candidate.
    Adekolu, who is Ekiti State PPN Chairman, urged party members and other Nigerians to support and vote for the party’s flagbearer for the 2019 presidential election.
    He said: “PPN has come to redeem Nigeria. PPN has come to save Nigeria from poverty, lack, unemployment and underdevelopment, hence the need for support”.
    In his acceptance speech, Al-Mustapha, who was represented on the occasion by Mr. Zakaria Husseini, promised Nigerians good leadership and promised to salvage the country and put it back on the path of growth and prosperity.
    Husseini, who described the PPN flagbearer as a detribalised, patriotic Nigerian and experienced administrator, assured that Al-Mustapha would “provide the missing link in governance in Nigeria and ensure better lives
    for the citizenry in all spheres of the economy”.
    In his address, PPN National Chairman, Hon Razak Eyiowuawi, who expressed confidence that with the party’s flagbearer, the road was clear for PPN to win the 2019 presidential election, described the party as the country’s
    life-wire with its emphasis as agriculture development.
    Eyiowuawi said “the popularity, wealth of experience and Major Al-Mustaphaand his appeal to a wide spectrum will help the party to victory. PPN is a force to reckon with. We are going into this election which we believe we can win with positive mind”.
    The PPN chairman, who dismissed insinuations in some quarters that the 2019 presidential election would be straight fight between APC and PDP, said his party was the party to beat, saying: “Major Al-Mustapha will take over from President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019.
    “Remember PPN is part of coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP). Apart from the fact that our party can win the election on its own, our candidate is expected to emerge as the CUPP candidate for the presidential election and will defeat Buhari.
    “I know that PDP presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, will work with Major Al-Mustapha when our candidate emerges as CUPP presidential candidate. Nigerians can be rest-assured of value of lives, welfare of workers, education development and repositioning of the economy among others under Al-Mustapha’s government,” the PPN National Chairman said.
  • You’re hypocrites, Ogun APC tells opposition

    You’re hypocrites, Ogun APC tells opposition

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun State has described the opposition’s allegation that the Governor Ibikunle Amosun administration is authoritarian as “cheap hypocrisy”.

    It was reacting to a statement by the People’s Party of Nigeria’s (PPN’s) candidate in the 2011 governorship election, Mr. Gboyega Isiaka.

    Isiaka condemned a circular from the state government, which “purportedly barred its officials from expressing their views in the media”.

    In a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Mr. Sola Lawal, APC said the circular sought to “streamline official lines of information flow from the government”.

    The party said no responsible government would permit uncontrolled information dissemination on critical issues.

    It said: “Being democratic and open, the Amosun administration will always respect the right of the people to information, but this right, however, should not undermine the government’s duty to maintain decorum. The new measure in place makes commissioners and permanent secretaries in ministries custodians and official channels of information.

    “This policy is not in any way near the blatant brutality of the immediate-past Otunba Gbenga Daniel administration, in which Isiaka served, which detained 12 civil servants in December, 2006, for leaking official secrets.

    “It is also incomparable to the anachronistic display of wanton power embedded in the harassment of the respected paramount ruler of the Egbas, Oba Adedotun Aremu Gbadebo, by the Daniel gang for daring to express disgust about the decadent infrastructure in the state capital.

    “We recall the nihilistic embarrassment of Yewa people when the government of that era openly disrupted the 2005 Oronna Day (the annual cultural celebration of Yewa people) in Ilaro on the primitive ground that its organisers approved an award for the then Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Dimeji Bankole, and the late Otunba Dipo Dina, a leading opposition figure of the period.

    “Isiaka was part of the nightmare that the Daniel administration was, when, in 2006, the yearly Ojude Oba ceremony in Ijebu-Ode was brought to an abrupt end because Daniel disapproved of the inclusion of the late Dina in the team of his age grade, who were to pay homage to the monarch of Ijebu land, Oba Sikiru Adetona.

    “The prevailing vista of uncommon infrastructural rebirth, ingenious transparency and openness in government and flamboyant restoration of human dignity in a generous atmosphere of peace that the Amosun administration has heralded is a loud testimony to the governor’s commitment to ensuring a clean break from the decadence of yesterday.”

     

  • Be fair, says PPN

    Peoples Party of Nigeria (PPN) governorship candidate Chief Basil Iwuoba yesterday appealed to the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega, to provide a level playing field for the candidates.

    Speaking with reporters yesterday, Iwuoba said INEC should be impartial. ‘’I am appealing to INEC to give all the candidates a level playing field and not sell the mandate of Anambra people to the highest bidder. Jega and his workers should allow Anambra citizens to make their choice.”

    Iwuoba appealed to the people to see his candidacy as a divine call to liberate them from enslavement.

    He said he would respect anyone that wins, adding that he was not scared of big names and parties.

    ‘’I am from Anambra North and if you go there now requesting from the people the candidate to vote for, they will tell you it is Iwuoba.

    The PPN candidate said that he was the candidate to beat. I am not afraid of Ezeemo, Ngige or Obiano . They should be afraid of me because my party’s priority is to take over Government House.”

    On why he left Labour party, Iwuoba said there was crisis in the party.

    On APGA, he said Governor Peter Obi did his best but because it wasn’t enough he is coming to finish the good job, adding that he would do wonders on security.

    He lamented that the investment by Governor Obi on education wasn’t reflecting in the schools.