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Following the outcome of the All Progressives Congress national and state assembly primaries in Ondo State, losers have been urged to shelve their personal ambitions and support those who emerged as the partys candidates.

Chairman of the party, Mr Isaac Kekemeke, while meeting with the party leaders from the 18 local governments in the state on Monday, said it was the only way the party would be successful in the coming elections.

He said, The only way for the party to win the forthcoming general elections in the state and country as a whole in 2015, is to be united and go to the elections as a team and not as a divided house. Elections cannot be won when members of the party are aggrieved.

I plead that no matter what energy, time and material resources you have expended, we must correctly see such as our contribution to the growth, development and victory of our party.

I wish to, on behalf of the leadership of the party, assure you that the party will never forget your labour.

It is however the truth that this labour can only be rewarded if the party becomes victorious at the polls next year.

Some aspirants expressed their grievances, saying the game was not played according to the rules during the exercise.

They also demanded the candidates should carry them along in the preparation for the general election, alleging that some of the candidates that won the primaries in their various constituencies saw them as political enemies.

Kekemeke however promised to meet with all the candidates to settle the rifts and strategise on how to win the coming elections.

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The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has berated Governor Ayodele Fayose for not fulfilling his electoral promises to Ekiti people, saying his stomach infrastructure slogan was a deceit to treat the electorate like beggars.

The party said the governor had turned Ekiti people to beggars by giving them handouts in form of kwashiorkor-infested chickens not bigger in size than ailing pigeons.

But the Peoples Democratic Paty in the state has branded the APC as an hypocrite for adopting the stomach infrastructure which it had condemned the governor for.

The party claimed that a national leader of the APC distributed 2,000 bags of rice, vegetable oil, sugar and a little cash gift to people from various parts of Lagos State on Sunday, adding that,it is hypocrisy at its peak to do what you abuse someone else for doing.

The APC in a statement by its state Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun,said Ekiti people had now seen the deceit of a man who said he was a friend of the common man with his callous attitude to the people he claimed to love during the period the people are supposed to be happy.

Governor Fayose gave two congos of rice and miserable palm oil not up to 1 litre, all totaling N700 to each worker that the governor had earlier deducted N2,000 from their salary for Christmas gift.

This is in contrast to Governor Kayode Fayemi who empowered the people through agriculture, cooperative and employment and apprenticeship schemes involving over two thousand youths, which helped the people to earn a living and made them happy for four years as against Fayoses tokenism as Christmas gifts.

Olatunbosun said instead of Fayose building on these laudable schemes, he had cancelled all the programmes, rendering the youth jobless while he had also cancelled many promotions in the civil service and dismissed many workers for the offences they did not commit.

Fayemi last year paid civil servants 30% of their salary as xmas bonus. He also paid their leave bonus while their December salary was paid on December 18.

In contrast, Fayose has refused to pay civil servants their September salary even though he had collected September allocation from the Federal Government. Civil servants are yet to be paid as of December 22.

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Embattled Speaker of the Ekiti State Assembly, Dr. Adewale Omirin,

The management of Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, has opposed the bid by the 19 All Progressives Congress lawmakers of the Ekiti State House of Assembly to conduct their plenary in the institution.

The management of the university said no political meetings would be allowed on the campus.

The opposition lawmakers had at their plenary presided over by the embattled Speaker, Dr. Adewale Omirin, at a secret location in Ado-Ekiti on Friday, resolved to hold their sittings and conduct normal legislative business at the Faculty of Science, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti.

This followed a motion by the majority leader, Churchill Adedipe, to reconvene the Assembly at a public place within the state capital, outside the House of Assembly chambers for security reasons.

He said the action was supported by Section 101 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).

But in a statement issued by the Registrar of EKSU, Mr. Emmanuel Ogunyemi, the management of the university said no political meetings would be allowed on the premises.

The statement read, The attention of the Management of Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, has been drawn to news reports by print and electronic media organisations over plans by the All Progressives Congress lawmakers in the Ekiti State House of Assembly to hold plenary meetings on the university campus.

The university management wishes to inform the general public that the Ekiti State University premises is not open to political meetings and we state unequivocally that no legislative meeting was held on our campus as being speculated in some quarters and no such meetings would be allowed to hold in the university premises.

The university is a community of teachers and scholars and Ekiti State University is committed to excellence in teaching, learning and research and should not be joined with unnecessary political issues.

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Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola | credits: File copy

A senatorial aspirant of the All Progressives Congress in Osun-East senatorial district, Mr. Sola Lawal, has said Governor Rauf Aregbesola cannot upturn his victory at the partys primaries.

Lawal, who accused the governor of rejecting his victory because of his alleged bias for incumbent Senator Babajide Omoworare, said this in a statement signed by his media aide, Mr. Sina Adeyemi.

Lawal, who is the publicity secretary of the APC in Ogun State, said it was unfortunate that those who fought against injustice perpetrated against them before getting to power could be involved in oppressing others.

The aggrieved aspirant said he was ready to defend his victory, saying he won the primaries because of the support of the people.

Lawal said he polled 17 votes to defeat Omoworare who, according to him, scored just three votes .

He said, Similar primaries were conducted at the same venue where former Governor Isiaka Adeleke defeated the incumbent Senator Mudashir Hussain of Osun-West, while incumbent Senator Sola Adeyeye defeated Otunba Lai Oyeduntan in Osun-Central.

While Governor Rauf Aregbesola accepted the victories of Adeleke and Adeyeye, he rejected that of Lawal, preferring to have the incumbent serve a second term. Any attempt to subvert the will of the people through electoral subterfuge will be resisted because I am prepared to defend my mandate.

Both the law, as well as accepted mode of civil conduct, do not prescribe different rules for different people.Whatever is good for Adeleke and Adeyeye should also be nice for Sola Lawal, since it is the choice of the people that is important here.

Whoever finds himself in a position of power today, especially those who have suffered injustice in the past, should desist from unleashing injustice on others, so that the land can be rid of the suffocating stench of oppression.

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December 21, 2014 by Chukwudi Akasike, Port Harcourt 10 Comments

The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, on Sunday expressed confidence that the party would win the 2015 governorship election in the state.

Peterside, who spoke during a non-denominational church service at Obi Wali International Conference Centre in Port Harcourt to dedicate his governorship candidacy to God, explained that in spite of the conditions he was facing, God chose him to be the governorship candidate of the APC.

He added that with the level of support the party was getting, it would be difficult for any political party to dislodge the APC from the State Government House.

The APC candidate, who is a member of the House of Representatives, said, That is the God who did not look at all the conditions surrounding me; he decided to set aside protocols. By dedicating our mandate, we are openly admitting that power belongs to Almighty God.

Whatever power we have today, and the power we are going to have in future, belong to God. The other thing why we are here is to hand over the mantle of leadership of Rivers State to God.

When God opens the doors to Government House for you; nobody can shut it and when God closes the door, no man can open it.

The presiding cleric, Apostle Israel Alubah, predicted that the APC would win the 2015 general elections in the state, just as he said that Peterside had been destined to perform higher than the incumbent governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi.

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