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February 7, 2015 by Tunde Ajaja with agency report 154 Comments

Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.)

The All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has said it will be too bad if the Independent National Electoral Commission allows itself to be compromised to shift the general election or allow irregularities in the voting process.

Buhari made the statement in an interview published on Reuters on Friday, saying he was optimistic that he would win the election and that he would approach the courts if there are irregularities in the voting process. He said he would not call his followers into the streets.

Buhari said, Im optimistic that I wont lose. But we signed an undertaking that it will be violence free. We are attempting to stabilise a multi party democratic system.

There will be no delay. But if INEC is compromised then it will be too bad, Buhari said.

The APC had said that the only reason the pro-Jonathan camp was pushing for a delay of the elections was because it knew that the president would lose if voting should hold as planned.

On the insurgency in the country, the APC candidate said it was a disgrace that neighbouring countries like Chad, Niger and Cameroon had been more successful than Nigeria in the battle against the Boko Haram insurgency.

Buhari told Reuters that, Its a big disgrace for Nigeria. It is now Cameroon and Chad fighting the insurgency more than Nigeria. We will build the capacity and Nigeria should be able to secure its territorial integrity

Our main objective is to secure the country. We will not tolerate insurgency, sabotage of the economy by blowing up of installations, by stealing crude and so on. All these things will be things of the past.

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National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Lai Mohammed

The All Progressives Congress has flayed the persistent call for the postponement of the next general elections by those it described as desperate advocates of evil.

In a statement signed by the APC National Publicity Secretary on Friday in Abuja, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the desperadoes will always fail in their evil machinations because no power is strong enough to defeat a determined people.

The APC said the provocative call by the bogus Southern Nigeria Peoples Assembly for the postponement of the elections and the arrest of Independent National Electoral Commission Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, is one of the new antics of the election postponement campaigners.

The statement read, It is shameful that those who should be working hard to promote peaceful elections as scheduled are the same ones doing everything possible to trigger violence.

Those who should ordinarily be seen as elder statesmen have degenerated to dangerous partisans and shameless promoters of a narrow, parochial interest, at the expense of the national interest.

Who does not know that wherever President Goodluck Jonathans interest lies, therein you will find Chief Edwin Clark, whether or not it is in the national interest?

Who does not know that the anarchic call by Chief Clark and his cohorts are being made at the behest of a frenzied presidency?

It also pointed to a statement credited to the spokesperson for the ruling Peoples Democratic Party which it said was an indication that those working hard to scuttle the polls were not about to give up.

The APC dismissed claims by the ruling party that INEC was working hand in hand with it to disenfranchise supporters of the PDP by making sure they do not get Permanent Voter Cards without a shred of evidence beyond sheer emotions.

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February 6, 2015 by Kayode Idowu, Maiduguri 30 Comments

The All Progressives Congress in Yobe State said on Friday it received into its fold an estimated 26,000 members of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state.

The Speaker of the Yobe State House of Assembly, Alhaji Adamu Dogo, who is the Chairman of the Contact, Mobilisation and Reconciliation Committee of the Yobe APC, said these number cut across seven of the 17 local government areas of the state.

He said the defectors were from Damaturu, Tarmuwa, Yunusari, Nangere. Gulani, Geidam and Bursari local government areas.

Dogo added that in all the local government areas, all the chairmen and the local government executive members among others, denounced membership of the PDP and had thrown their weight behind the APC in the search for a better and purposeful leadership.

He promised the defectors that APC would carry them along in its programmes, saying they would never regret leaving the PDP.

Dogo said, I am happy you now realise and denounce membership of the PDP by shifting your loyalty to the APC. Let me assure you that you will never regret joining the APC because the party will carry all of you along in its programmes and you will be treated just like any other old member of the party.

The former PDP chairman of Damaturu Local Government, Alhaji Ibrahim Talio, who spoke on behalf of the defectors, said they left the PDP because of serious injustice they suffered over the years and expressed optimism that APC will surely be better.

He praised the progress recorded so far by the APC government in the state, expressing the hope that similar transformation would be recorded at the national level when the APC clinches power at the centre.

The seven defected party chairmen and some selected former PDP executive members attended the ceremony held in Damaturu, the state capital.

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The All Progressives Congress governorship candidate in Delta State, Chief Otega Emerhor, has said he remains the candidate adopted by the Urhobo ethnic nationality for the February 28 governorship election.

In a statement on Friday, Emerhor said the Chief Tuesday Onoge-led leadership of the Urhobo Progress Union was the authentic leadership of the union.

The Onoge-led faction of UPU had last Sunday endorsed Emerhor after it broke off from the Joe Omene-led leadership of UPU that endorsed the Labour Party candidate, Chief Great Ogboru.

Emerhor said the truth about the Omenes groups endorsement of Ogboru was that they were working for the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, an arrangement he said was worked out by President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja.

The APC candidate further said Ogboru s alliance with the UPU and Omene was a well crafted political strategy to divide the Urhobo votes so as to enable Okowa of the PDP to win the governorship election.

He urged the people of Delta Central and Urhobo nation in general to support the APC so as to actualise the Urhobo dream of electing him (Emerhor) as the next governor of Delta State come February 28.

He warned that should Urhobos fail to dislodge the Ogboru-Omene political scheming, the Urhobo nation would be marginalised politically for another eight years.

He noted that the PDP government, which deliberately neglected the Urhobo and Delta Central in development, government appointments, both at the state and federal levels, was the same party Omene and Ogboru had aligned with to deprive Urhobos the opportunity of producing the next governor.

Emerhor said the APC was the only party that had the winning structure in Delta State with the capacity to defeat the PDP in the forth coming general elections, adding that the Labour Party had no presidential candidate with a weak structure that could not survive the test of time in this years general elections.

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Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose

The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has hailed the International Criminal Court for its readiness to try politicians who perpetrate violence in the forthcoming elections.

According to the party, this will check violent politicians in power against impunity and violent attacks on the opposition.

The party said there was more than enough evidence of attacks on APC members in the state by the Peoples Democratic Party thugs sponsored by the state government.

The state Publicity Secretary of the APC, Taiwo Olatubosun, in a statement on Thursday called on victims of political violence to furnish the ICC with details of attacks on them.

By this declaration of the ICC, we hereby serve notice to the court that we have more than enough evidence of attacks on our members by agents of government lodged in Adesua Lodge of the Government House who have been helping the government to attack opponents.

It is good that the ICC has now realised that constriction in political freedom through violence by powerful politicians against the opposition is another form of crime against humanity.

Part of the right to human existence is political choice without intimidation and violence. By this, tyrants and politicians with zero tolerance for the opposition will know that their days of reckless attacks on the opposition are gone.

Olatunbosun asked the ICC prosecutor in Nigeria, Fatou Bensouda, to highlight the processes of reporting violent politicians to the international court.

It is good that the ICC has acknowledged that crimes under the purview of the ICC had already been perpetrated in Nigeria, Ekiti State being the most notorious. We thank the ICC for sending its team to Nigeria. Victims of executive lawlessness can begin to compile the list of violent acts against them for onward transmission to the ICC.

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