Oshiomhole, el-Rufai behind Edo poll’s postponement – Edo PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party, Edo State chapter, has accused Governor Adams Oshiomhole of allegedly using his Kaduna State counterpart, Nasir el-Rufai, to influence the postponement of the governorship election in order to buy time to rig the poll.
The Independent National Electoral Commission had, last Thursday, postponed the election from September 10 to September 28, citing security reports received by the Nigeria Police Force and the Department of State Security over threats by insurgents to cause violence during the exercise.
The Edo State PDP chairman, Chief Dan Orbih, at a press briefing on Wednesday in Benin, claimed that the party received information from the Government House that the Kaduna State governor allegedly influenced a national commissioner of the INEC to postpone the election.

Edo guber: My husband not in politics for personal gains – Ize-Iyamu

Osagie Ize-Iyamu

The vision and mission of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu in politics is not for personal gains but for the welfare of the people.
Making the remarks in Benin at Christ Embassy Church, wife of the PDP candidate, Dr. (Mrs) Osagie Ize-Iyamu, urged eligible voters to remain focused on giving their mandate to him in the rescheduled September 28 election.
In a statement by the Ize-Iyamu Campaign Organisation and signed by Tenet Iredia, she appealed to women and all eligible voters in the state not to allow the postponement of the election to dampen their enthusiasm.
She observed that other extraneous reasons might have been responsible for the postponement of the election but stressed that the primary concern of eligible voters was to ensure that they did not succumb to tricks and antics of the APC in the state.
While further advising them not to sell their PVC as this would mortgage their future, she said that

President not responsible for economic recession — APC chieftain

The Cross River State 2015 Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr. Odey Ochicha has charged Nigerians not to blame President Muhammadu Buhari for the nation`s present economic predicaments.
Ochcha gave the charged in a statement issued in Calabar by his media officer, Mr. Inyali Peter, urging Nigerians to learn how to separate lies from fact stressing that, if not for the intervention of President Buhari, the economy of Nigeria could have been in total disarray.
Ochicha stressed that a time has come for Nigerians to face economic reality instead of believing

Ondo guber: APC appeal panel report ready – C’ttee

The Appeal Panel Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Ondo State governorship primary election will conclude sitting and submit its report within the week.
The committee, which is probing the governorship primary that produced Chief Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), sat all through the Sallah holiday considering the allegations raised by three of the 24 APC aspirants.
It was gathered that some of the aspirants who contested the governorship ticket of the APC had petitioned the Appeal Panel Committee headed by Mrs. Helen Bendega demanding the cancelation of the result of the primaries.
Among those who submitted their petitions to the panel alleging irregularities in the primaries are Chief Olusola Oke, Senator Ajayi Borofice and Segun Abraham.
Another aspirant who also submitted their petition to the APC Appeal panel Akinwale

Edo PDP cautions voters against selling PVCs

The leadership of Edo state chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has advised eligible voters in the state against selling or given out their Permanent Voter cards , PVCs to some individuals who now engaged in an alleged illicit buying of voters cards for N10, 000.
PDP deputy state chairman , Mr. Emma Ogbomo said the ruling party, APC has resorted to the new antic after PDP punctured their purchase of PVCs .
Addressing members of the APC who joined the party at the campaign office of the PDP governorship candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu in Benin City, Ogbomo posited
“It is their new trick to ask people for the numbers of their PVC and then offer them money for the revelation. We advise people not to sell their numbers because they may not be able to use their voter card on Election Day”.

PDP will lose nothing over members’ defection to APC – BoT chair

Walid Jibrin

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party Board of Trustees (BoT), Sen. Walid Jibrin, on Wednesday said the party would lose nothing over the defection of Sen. Abubakar Sodangi to the APC.
Jibrin told newsmen in Nasarawa, his country home in Nasarawa State, that the accusation of impunity against the PDP by Sodangi was laughable.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Sodangi, served as senator for Nasarawa west between 1999 to 2011 under the PDP.
He defected from the party to the All Progressives Congress, APC, due to what he called the inability of the PDP to purge itself of impunity and imposition of candidates.
The BoT chairman, however, dismissed the claim, insisting that the party, especially in the state, would not be affected by the defection.

Edo guber: Oshiomhole mobilizing militants to rig rescheduled election – PDP

Dan Orbih

Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State, Mr Dan Orbih, has accused Governor Adams Oshiomhole of masterminding the postponement of the governorship election in the state.
Orbih made the allegation at a news conference at the party’s secretariat on Wednesday, in Benin.
The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, recalls that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had on Thursday announced the rescheduling of the election from Sept. 10 to Sept. 28.
It had explained that the shift was in compliance with security alert from the Police and Department of State Service , DSS.
Orbih alleged that Oshiomohole colluded with Gov. Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State and a female staff of the INEC to postpone the election.
He said that the postponement was to enable the governor and the All Progressives Congress,

Edo PDP alleges ploy to manipulate re-scheduled poll

Adams Oshiomhole

Edo state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has alleged that the rescheduled Governorship election now slated for September 28 by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was supported by Comrade Adams Oshiomhole’s led All Progressive Congress to enable the party to manipulate the election and to also import members from APC states to buy up Permanent Voters Cards, PVC’s for the purpose of voting.
State chairman of the party Dan Orbih at a press briefing yesterday also alleged that credible information available to it indicated that the APC government has paid huge sums of money to militants from Delta State lodged in different hotels in the state capital to unleashed mayhem on PDP leaders before and during the governorship election and called on security agencies to immediately swing into action in apprehending the militants.
It would be recalled that Governors Adams Oshiomhole had last weekend accused the PDP and the governors of Rivers and Delta state of importing 8, 0000 armed militants into the state for

Recession: It’s time to quit – PDP tells Buhari

Dayo Adeyeye

The leadership of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to resign and allow competent hands to steer the country away from the present economic recession.
In a statement Wednesday by the spokesman of the PDP, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, the party said the crass ineptitude and lukewarm-attitude of the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration could no longer be tolerated.
“Therefore, we are calling on President Buhari and his team to return Nigeria to its state of booming economy before they assumed office in May, 2015, and then quit immediately to allow other capable leaders recover our ailing economy”, the statement added.
The party further expressed worry over the state of affairs in the country, particularly a recent statement attributed to the Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun, to the effect that “recession is just a word”, a statement the minister had since denied.
“Is this statement as a result of ignorance, lack of patriotism or in-line with President Buhari’s