APC leader behind attacks on Kyari, Daura – Group

The Arewa Youth Leaders for Development and Change (AYLDC) has alleged that a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the South-west is behind “the nefarious activities to bring down both men and all those close to President Muhammadu Buhari.
In a statement in Kaduna at the weekend, the group maintained that the current campaigns of calumny against the Chief of Staff to the President, Alhaji Abba Kyari, and the president’s nephew, Alhaji Mamman Daura, in some online news platforms were being sponsored by the APC leader.
The statement signed by the National President of AYLDC, Abubakar A. Karga, said the group had observed with disappointment, the unwarranted and malicious attacks on Kyari and Daura in some online publications re-publishing the malicious contents, stressing that a US-based online medium had been at the forefront of the attacks.
The grouse of the APC leader, according to the statement, is that “he is still smarting for not being the one to make every single appointment made by Mr. President.”
The group said it has reasons to believe that the chairman of the anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and a top government official are complicit in the show of shame.
“They are the ones who use their offices to lend legitimacy to questionable information to make it

Ex-TUC President predicts rancour-free poll, victory for APC

Former National President, Trade Union Congress (TUC), Comrade Peter Esele, has expressed confidence that the September 28, 2016 governorship poll in Edo State will be rancour-free just as he predicted victory for the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Esele, who was among the aspirants that lost the primaries to the APC governorship candidate, Godwin Obaseki, added that the developmental strides of the outgoing Adams Oshiomhole-led administration has set the foundation for such success.
Speaking with journalists in Benin City yesterday, Esele said: “My expectations is that the election will be free and fair and at the end of the day the APC will be victorious after the counting.
“I think the governor has done its best in the near past eight years and this is more of a referendum of what APC and the governor has done in the state. My appeal to everybody is that

Edo PDP alleges conspiracy by INEC, APC, Police to rig election

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has raised the alarm over alleged plans by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Edo State government in league with the police and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to rig the Wednesday’ governorship election in the state.
The party at a press conference in Benin City yesterday by its state Publicity Secretary, Chris Nehikhare, said with just three days to the elections, more disturbing facts and information were continually brought forward to the party that the state government and the APC want to deny the people the right to vote for the candidate of their choice
According to Nehikhare, “Very credible information reaching us says that Governor Adams Oshiomhole and his APC have concluded arrangements to thumb print fake ballot papers on Monday 26/9/2016 at Ibillo, Akoko Edo local government area, Edo North, and then transport the thumb printed fake ballot papers to their areas of weakness. Thereafter they will pretend to expose the perpetrators as PDP supporters. This “show” becomes the excuse to crackdown on PDP foot

Ondo guber: Odigie-Oyegun mus go, – Tinubu

The controversy over the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in the forthcoming election in Ondo State is further tearing the party leaders apart.
Aggrieved National Leader of the APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday called on the National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun to resign.
Tinubu, who broke his silence on the controversy surrounding the party’s governorship primary held on September 3 in Ondo, said in a statement yesterday that the APC, “a party born of the quest for democratic good governance”, was under critical threat by those who managed to be in it but are never of it.
He accused Odigie-Oyegun of breaching the principles of democratic fairness and justice meant to guide the party’s internal deliberations.
“To rescue the party, Odigie-Oyegun must go,” Tinubu said.
Efforts to get the APC chairman’s reaction to the matter yesterday failed as all calls to his phone were not picked.

PDP truce will expose forces behind crisis – Makarfi

Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi

The Chairman of the Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ahmed Makarfi, has said reaching a truce with Senator Ali Modu Sherriff would expose those instigating the crisis in the party.
According to Makarfi, who spoke yesterday, both parties in the crisis have agreed to maintain peace to pave the way for reconciliation.
Makarfi, a former Governor of Kaduna State said he would not go into the details of those who were involved in the reconciliation.
According to him, what is important is that “We have agreed to form a joint committee that will look at all the issues, with a view to getting lasting solutions to all outstanding issues, so that we will move as one body.
“I raised a team that will meet with the team that Senator Ali Modu Sherriff and his people will present. That will be the body that will really discuss all issues and put a seal on all items.”

Ondo guber: Tinubu demands Odigie-Oyegun resignation

All Progressives Congress, APC, national leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has demanded the resignation of the national chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, who he claimed Sunday had derailed from the path of progressives.
In a stinking communiqué from his media office, Tinubu accused Oyegun of sabotaging the will of democracy in Ondo State by overriding the decision of the appeal panel that asked for a fresh governorship primary following investigations that showed that the delegates’ list used had been tampered with.
Tinubu in the communiqué further alleged that Oyegun’s action in allegedly subverting the will of the people was not of his doing, saying that for a man of the age of the national chairman to have done what he did that he must have been under the influence of a “powerful and sinister arm at work.”
Tinubu who said that the APC was now under threat of being suffocated by anti-democratic forces pretending to be progressives, said:
“The APC, a party born of the quest for democratic good governance, is under critical threat by

Resist election rigging by all means – Ize-Iyamu tells Edo people

Osagie Ize-Iyamu

The Edo PDP governorship candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has advised Edo people and other eligible voters to protect their votes and resist by all means possible any attempt by the APC, security agencies and other institutions to manipulate the governorship election scheduled for Wednesday.
Advising officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agencies to do the right things by conducting a free, fair and acceptable election, the PDP candidate however stated that those who have planned to manipulate the election will be disgraced.
He also advised the electorate not to allow themselves to be insulted by Governor Adams Oshiomhole and his puppet candidate, Godwin Obaseki, through any inducement, saying the APC-led government that had subjected them to unbearable hardship in nearly eight years cannot come on Election Day to offer them money or rice just to purchase their conscience.

APC will lose if Akeredolu remains candidate – Abraham

Segun Abraham

The second runner-up in the governorship primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State, Dr Segun Abraham, Sunday predicted defeat for the party if eventually it upholds the election of Mr Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (SAN) as the candidate of the party.
Akeredolu was elected as the candidate of the party in the primary held on September 3. But the other aspirants including Abraham, Chief Olusola Oke and Prof Robert Ajayi Boroffice kicked against the outcome of the election.
Abraham flanked by other leaders of the party including Chief Erastus Akeju, Messrs Sola Iji and Rotimi Agbede said the opposition People’s Democratic Party(PDP) would raise the issue of

Dariye’s defection cheering – Plateau PDP

Joshua Dariye

The Peoples Democratic Party Chairman in Plateau State, Mr. Damishi Sango, has said the party is happy with the defection of Senator Joshua Dariye to the All Progressives Congress.
The state Deputy Chairman of the party, Mr Amos Gombi, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Jos on behalf of Sango, that Plateau PDP was relieved.
Dariye, who represents Plateau Central, defected to APC on the floor of the senate in Abuja on Thursday.
Dariye, a former Governor of Plateau, cited PDP’s crisis at the