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The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress convention planning committee, ex-governor Kayode Fayemi, has said the committee rose above the hostility of the federal government, to give the party a transparent presidential primary election.

This, he said, was made possible with the commitment of members of the committee and the corporation of delegates as well as all the aspirants.

Fayemi said this while presenting the committee report to the party chairman, Chief John Oyegun, at the party national headquarters, in Abuja, on Wednesday.

According to him, despite earlier misgivings, the choice of Lagos as venue for the event turned out to be a good one for the party in spite of all the challenges.

Fayemi said, We cannot be mentioning the hostility of the federal government in refusing us the use of the National Stadium as the complementary venue to the convention that we organised, we dont think such intolerance should be accommodated in the genius democracy.

He also gave some details about how the committee achieved the feat of giving the party the acclaimed transparent process.

The committee chairman said, We broke our works into eight sub-committee in all, we had electoral committee, security sub-committee, entertainment sub-committee, the accreditation sub-committee, media and publicity sub-committee, finance sub-committee, transport and accommodation sub-committee.

Those sub-committees worked tirelessly to ensure that we had a good convention which was mostly smooth in all respect.

The aspirants cooperated with us and the innovation we must commend the party for, which also contributed to the success of the convention, was the inclusion of representative of aspirant representatives. It is something we will recommend for every convention of the party, because that singular act saved us of a lot of rumours because the representative of the aspirants will have quenched the fire even before it gets to us and they were readily available to their own aspirants and also readily available to us and we were able to solve a lot of problems because of that.

He further explained that the involvement of representatives of the aspirants contributed, in no small measure, to the success of the event because they were part of the process from the beginning.

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The National Leader, All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has pledged to support the candidacy of APC presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and his running mate, Prof. Yemi Osibajo.

Tinubu, in a statement in Abuja, said though he was offered the position of the running mate by Buhari, he said he decided to maintain his position as a national leader.

He said, There came a time during the course of the events when our Presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, offered me the Vice Presidential slot. Being a normal human being, I was deeply moved and honoured that he would consider me for the position. Being a patriot, I had to weigh my potential candidacy in all of its dimensions.

I have concluded that the interest of the party, our campaign and that of the nation are better served if I retain my position as the National leader of the APC, allowing me to be a bridge builder across all divides.

I sincerely commit myself to the rescue agenda of General Buhari and Professor Osinbajo.

I declare to you, I will work and dedicate myself so that our ticket succeeds and wins the 2015 election not for his good, not for my good, not even for the partys good but for the good of our nation.

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Chief Nyesom Wike

THE Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress on Tuesday predicted that the immediate past Minister of State for Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, was unlikely to get up to 10 per cent of the votes to be cast during the 2015 governorship election in the state.

The state APC said in a statement signed by the Senior Special Assistant, Media and Public Affairs to its chairman, Chief Chukwuemeka Eze, that despite the support of the Presidents wife, Patience Jonathan for Wike, the ex-minister would not win the governorship poll.

Describing Wikes emergence as a governorship candidate as controversial, the state APC pointed out that 16 governorship aspirants boycotted the PDP governorship primary.

Chief Nyesom Wike is unlikely to get up to 10 per cent of the votes to be cast during the 2015 governorship election in the state, not minding the pledges and support by Dame Patience Jonathan, the Presidents wife and others.

This is a man who is perpetually afraid of competition and who never believes in a free and fair election. Hence we are not surprised that he brazenly used his stooges and clowns in the PDP to frustrate and rig out the 16 better qualified governorship aspirants.

For having the temerity to level a false accusation against the APC when all that we have been doing is to state the facts regarding Wikes unreliable nature his lack of preparation for the weighty responsibility of governorship, the state APC added.

It noted that the former minister was no match for the state APC governorship candidate, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, adding that Wikes chances in the race to the Government House had been dimmed by the disenfranchisement of 16 governorship aspirants of the PDP in the state.

According to the state APCs statement, Wike is no match in any way to our credible candidate, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, a man of impeccable character with a proven record of performance.

His chances, which were slim from the very beginning, have been further dimmed by the plot of the G16 disenfranchised governorship aspirants to fight him to a standstill.

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The Ogun-East senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Mr. Dapo Abiodun, says he has initiated reconciliatory moves with aggrieved aspirants who rejected the outcome of the primary which held on Monday last week.

He said he decided to reach out to all aspirants in the district in order to pave the way for a smooth take off of the partys campaign ahead of the 2015 elections.

Abiodun said this during a meeting with party members at his home in the Ikenne Local Government Area, Ogun State, on Monday.

He said the parley was not organised to usurp the partys leadership role, but rather to fashion out some measures that would make the party approach the coming election as a united family.

Abiodun, who emerged winner of the partys senatorial primaries in Ogun-East with a landslide 2,500 votes, assured all aspirants who lost at the primaries of compensation.

He said, Let me thank all of you for honouring the invitation to be here at a short notice and more importantly for your support during the primaries. I have called for this gathering to assure all our aspirants that this will not be a case of winner takes all.

We will take care of everyone who contested and lost and we will get the party to also compensate them. Having said this, as faithful party members, we need to go back to our local councils, wards and polling units to sell the manifesto of our party to the people so that the masses can see us as one united family prepared to sweep the polls in the House of Assembly, House of Reps, Senate, governorship and presidential elections

He said all aspirants would be included in the campaign committees for them to be able to carry all their supporters along to join the campaign train.

House of Representatives aspirants who attended and made contributions at the parley were Dewunmi Onanuga from Shagamu, Babatunde Ipaye from Ijebu Igbo, Kunle Otun from Ijebu Ode, Teju Shote from Ijebu Ode and Gbenga Baruwa from Sagamu.

Another chieftain of the party, Tunde Oladunjoye, however, urged all members of the party to see Abiodun as the project of the party and ensure that he emerged winner at the polls.

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