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As the All Progressives Congress holds its electioneering rally at the Mushin area of Lagos metropolis, the Lagos State Police Command on Monday mounted heavy security at the crisis-prone place.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that to ensure a peaceful atmosphere, the police cordoned off the Abeokuta expressway at the Cappa and Olorunsogo ends.

The development ensured that vehicles did not come into Mushin from the Oshodi end of the road, a development that created gridlock as traffic was diverted to alternative routes.

NAN also noticed the presence of armed policemen who were combat-ready to avert any violence from miscreants that could disrupt the rally.

There was the Police Rapid Response Squad with their Armoured vehicles at rally venue.

The situation kept the so called Area Boys in check as they were seen falling in line with instructions by the policemen on how to go about at the rally.

Speaking with NAN, the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, said the police had always been prepared to nip violence in the bud.

We are prepared like we used to be at every other rally, our men are on ground and we have lectured them on what to do. Security is not one mans business, so, we are ready for anyone that wants to disrupt the rally, Nwosu said.

He added that when people conduct themselves well, they also help the security situation.

The Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola and the APC governorship candidate, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, were seen distributing APC crested T shirts to the crowd.

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Former Head of State, Gen.Muhammadu Buhari

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has promised to create one million jobs for Igbo youths by revamping huge coal deposits in Enugu State for generation of electricity and export.

Buhari said this at the Enugu West APC zonal rally on Saturday, where he was represented by the spokesman of the party in the South-East, Osita Okechukwu.

Speaking through Okechukwu, the presidential candidate explained that the coal industry would be revamped with the objective of generating electricity to serve the entire South-East.

He assured the people that he would award the contract immediately he comes into office to avoid the mistakes made by the Peoples Democratic Party, which he said squandered over N2bn voted for a coal project between 2012 and 2014.

We are banking on huge coal deposits located at Amasiodo, Inyi and Leje axis of Enugu Coal belt. We are going to award contract for mining and construction of coal-fired power plant, unlike the PDP that since 1999 promised to revamp the coal fields and 16 years after, nothing has been done.

We believe that coal is the most abundant fossil fuel in Enugu State and Enugu Coal is one of the most qualitative coal brands in the world, which means that while some are used to generate electricity, some will be exported, he said.

The former Head of State said his objective was to create one million jobs directly and indirectly from the coal sector, as ancillary projects would follow.

My idea is to emulate the Taichung Coal-Fired Power Plant in Taiwan, the largest coal power station in the world.

Coal supplies 46 per cent electricity in the United States and over 60 per cent electricity in China it is callous to abandon such a golden treasury.

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Governor Babatunde Fashola | credits: File copy

The All Progressives Congress has instructed its lawyers to challenge the shutdown of some of its fund-raising platforms by the National Communications Commission.

This was revealed by the Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola, at a meeting of the Fund Raising Directorate of the APC Presidential Council, in Abuja, on Sunday.

He explained that the party was left with no choice but to seek legal redress after an action that was clearly a breach of constitutional provisions as well as double standard.

Fashola said the directive to shut the platform was contained in a letter dated January 19 with reference number NCC/CAB/GEN/2015/VOL.1/004, which was signed by officials of the NCC.

Those who signed it included the Director of Consumer Affairs, Maryam Bayi and the Head of Legal and Regulatory Services, Yinka Akinloye, on behalf of the NCC Executive Vice Chairman, Dr. Eugene Juwah.

Fashola recalled that in 2010, approval was given to the Jonathan/Sambo campaign organisation to raise funds using such a platform but that the APC was being denied the same right in 2015.

He said, We have advised our lawyers to go to court, they are preparing the papers now. In 2010 approval was given to the Jonathan/Sambo campaign to raise fund (using such a platform).The rule seems to have changed in 2015.

Fashola, who is the Director of Buhari/Osibanjo Campaign Fund, also explained to the gathering that the fund-raising platform which included the sale of scratch cards and donations into the designated First Bank Plc account was still valid.

He noted that even though the platform was established when Buhari was still seeking for the partys nomination as flag bearer, it was still up and running and supporters could still donate.

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The All Progressives Congress says it has instructed its lawyers to challenge the shutdown of some of its fundraising platforms by the National Communications Commission.

Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola, said this at a meeting of the Fundraising Directorate of the APC Presidential Council, in Abuja, on Sunday.

He explained that the party was left with no choice but to seek legal redress of an action he argued was clearly a breach of constitutional provisions and tantamount to double standards.

According to him, the directive to shut the platform was contained in a letter dated January 19, with reference number NCC/CAB/GEN/2015/VOL.1/004, which was signed by officials of the NCC.

Those who signed it included the Director of Consumer Affairs Maryam Bayi and the Head of Legal and Regulatory Services, Yinka Akinloye, on behalf of the NCC Executive Vice Chairman, Dr. Eugene Juwah.

Fashola recalled that in 2010, approval was given to the Jonathan/Sambo campaign organisation to raise funds using such a platform but that the APC was being denied the same right in 2015.

He said, We have advised our lawyers to go to court, they are preparing the papers now. In 2010, approval was given to the Jonathan/Sambo campaign to raise fund (using such a platform). The rule seems to have changed in 2015.

Fashola, who is the Director of Buhari/Osinbajo Campaign Fund, also explained to the gathering that the fundraising platform, which included the sale of scratch cards and donations into the designated First Bank account, still subsists.

He noted that even though the platform was established when Buhari was still seeking the partys nomination as flag bearer, it was still up and running and supporters could still donate.

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The All Progressives Congress has challenged the PDP to tell Nigerians how it plans to move from the near zero governance of the past six years of the Jonathan Administration to good and purposeful governance, instead of engaging in perpetual and tiring mudslinging.

We believe that elections should be about issues that will be beneficial to the electorate, not about throwing everything but the kitchen sink at a particular candidate simply because of his soaring acceptability.

Therefore, it is time for the PDP to end the muckraking and tell Nigerians how it plans to tackle the worsening insecurity in the land, the collapsing national currency, with the US dollar now exchanging for 215 Naira, massive unemployment, especially among the youth, decayed infrastructure and the unprecedented corruption under President Jonathans watch, the party said in a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.

It said the essence of the sustained campaign of calumny against Gen. Buhari by the PDP is to distract the APC from telling Nigerians how it plans to effect the much-needed change from zero to purposeful governance, and also to sweep under the carpet the glaring failures of the Jonathan Administration.

In both instances, the PDP has failed, as Nigerians have refused to be swayed by all the scandal mongering by the PDP, while the APC has remained focused in selling its game-changing manifesto to the citizenry, APC said.

The party said the PDP and President Jonathan should tell Nigerians what happened to the 20-billion-dollar missing oil funds, amid concerns that the money could have vanished into the ruling partys slush funds for electioneering campaign.

Nigerians are also asking: Mr. President, where are the Chibok girls who were abducted nine months ago, and whom you promised to reunite with their families? What happened to the stage-managed truce with Boko Haram and why has no one been punished for deceiving Nigerians? Mr. President, where is the report of the forensic audit you ordered into the missing $20b oil funds? It is now two months since the deadline set by your Finance Minister for the release of that audit report. Will the report go the way of others before it?

Mr. President, you said while campaigning for the 2011 elections that four years is enough for anyone to make significant improvement, and if I cant improve on power within this period, it means I cannot do anything. Why should Nigerians trust you to deliver on your promises this time around, now that the power situation has gone from bad to worse under your watch?

Mr. President, instead of creating jobs for the teeming unemployed youth of Nigeria, your administration has been fleecing and sending them to their early graves, as it happened during the fraudulent Immigration recruitment exercise in March 2014 when many innocent youths got death instead of jobs? When will you move from creating phantom jobs to real jobs? These are the issues that are bothering Nigerians and these are the issues they want answers to, instead of engaging in an unprecedented personality-focused campaign, the party said.

APC said the truth is that the PDP and President Jonathan do not have any answers to those serious issues raised above, hence they have decided to engage in a multi-pronged approach of mudslinging, campaign for election postponement and the instigation of violence to scuttle next months general elections, among others.

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