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APC Reps berate Fayose over Ekiti Assembly crisis

The All Progressives Congress federal lawmakers in the House of Representatives have berated the Ekiti Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, over the leadership crisis rocking the state House of Assembly.

They were reacting to the purported removal of Dr. Adewale Omirin, as the Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, and his replacement with Dele Olugbemi by 10 pro-Fayose lawmakers.

The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Communications, Mr. Oyetunde Ojo and a member representing Ekiti South Federal Constituency II, Mr. Bamidele Faparusi, vowed that the matter would be raised on the floor of the House as a motion anytime the House resumed from recess.

Speaking in Ode-Ekiti, headquarters of Gbonyin Local Government Area of the State on Friday, the Lawmakers said the House will not watch helplessly when its regulatory powers over the Houses of Assembly was being threatened.

Ojo said, Available facts showed that Omirin never planned to impeach the Governor, but only called for due process to be followed in the screening of the Commissioner-nominees. This is what democracy is all about. The process cannot allow you to assume a dictatorial status.

The APC lawmaker added that the party was well-positioned to defeat the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2015 general elections by ensuring that candidates with grassroots appeal were picked.

He said, You can see that many of our members had to scale the fence last week to defend democracy. If not, what happened to Omirin in the hands of the PDP in Ekiti would have happened to Hon. Aminu Tambuwal. That is why we have to be more vigilant.

You can see that nobody is contesting primaries with me in my constituency because the people felt I have represented them well. Let politics be based on performance and the peoples wish and not by act of brigandage as being done by PDP.

In the last Governorship election, PDP came as an opposition and won. So the chances of APC are very bright in 2015. We will defeat PDP roundly in all elections because we have done the people proud, he said.

Faparusi urged Fayose and the PDP lawmakers to bury their heads in shame for allegedly working against democracy that made them.

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Primaries: Atiku woos Ondo delegates, rules out consensus

Former Vice President and All Progressives Congress presidential aspirant, Atiku Abubakar, on Saturday sought the support of delegates of the party in Ondo state in his bid to fly the partys flag in next years election.

He held several meetings with the delegates and party officials at the Royal Bird Hotel, Alagbaka before moving to the APC secretariat where he was received by the state Chairman, Isaac Kekemeke.

He told journalists in Akure shortly after the meetings that the issue of consensus candidate was no longer feasible in the current calculations.

He said, We have gone past the stage of reaching any consensus or producing a consensus candidate.

He noted that his meetings with delegates in Ondo State was fruitful and encouraging.

Asked if he stood any chances against front runner, Muhammadu Buhari, Atiku said he would prove his popularity at the primaries proper.

He assured that he would emerge victorious in the contest irrespective of the seeming popularity of his main opponent.

Chairman of APC in the state, Isaac Kekemeke, said the party saw Atikus visit as that of an elder visiting members of his family.

He said, What we know is that any of our partys aspirants who emerge would be better that Goodluck Jonathan.

We have not taken any position as a party on any aspirant. But we are excited at the visit of Atiku as an elder in the party.

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PDP has gone from grace to grass -Kwankwaso

Kano State Governor and All Progressives Congress presidential aspirant, Rabiu Kwankwaso, on Sunday said the emergence of President Goodluck Jonathan as the sole candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the 2015 presidential poll shows that the ruling party has gone from grace to grass.

Kwankwaso spoke to journalists in Enugu shortly after meeting with the partys national delegates at the state party secretariat.

The presidential aspirant was responding to questions over the inability of the APC to present a consensus candidate for the presidential election.

He said there was nothing wrong with the APC having multiple presidential aspirants, and described the situation as a positive development.

Noting that some parties have no presidential candidate, Kwankwaso said, A party like APC should have as many presidential aspirants as possible.

PDP has gone from grace to grass now that they have only one candidate that shows that PDP has gone down.

Pointing out that the PDP had, over the years, always recorded several aspirants at its presidential primaries, the governor argued that the absence of any challenge to Jonathans candidacy means that times have changed for the party.

He went ahead to restate his earlier claim that it would be easy to defeat Jonathan.

Jonathan has no capacity to rule the state his government has failed, that is why there is a high level of insecurity and corruption.

All these are as a result of poor leadership.

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Boko Haram working for Satan, not God -Tinubu

A national leader of the All Progressives Congress and former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, says the attack on a mosque in Kano last Friday, which left over 100 worshippers dead, has shown that Boko Haram is not doing Gods work.

Tinubu said rather, the sect was doing the bidding of Satan.

The former governor said this in a statement on Sunday.

He said, Attacks against numerous locations in the northeast demonstrate how heinous and debased Boko Haram and those who sponsor it have become. So depraved, they have become heartless and filled with enmity against all that is good and proper.

This was not the act of human beings. These attacks could only have come from the hands of those who do not know God or serve God. This is the act of godless people.The hand of evil, deploying those who have given their selves over to wickedness, committed this terrible thing.

No reason can be found for what was done except that BH has once again shown its lust for innocent blood and its disdain for life peacefully lived. Boko Haram killed people praying to God because the god of Boko Haram is Satan himself.

The former governor said he was confident that Nigeria would overcome terrorism as evil could never overcome good.

He, however, said this was the time for all Nigerians, regardless of religion, to unite as this was the only way they could defeat the terrorists.

Boko Haram seeks to scare and intimidate Christians and Muslims alike through wanton destruction. They may attack us but never shall this evil force subdue us. Christians and Muslims must stand arm-in-arm to face this terrorist onslaught, he said.

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APC Presidential aspirants to sign undertaking

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief John Oyegun, has said that all aspirants seeking the partys presidential ticket would have to sign an undertaking during screening.

He said the undertaking was necessary so as to enable the aspirants to faithfully implement the partys manifestoes from the day they assumed office.

Oyegun spoke on Friday while receiving the completed presidential expression of interest and nomination forms from the Kano State Governor, Dr. Rabiu Kwankwaso, at the APC headquarters in Abuja.

The APC National Chairman, however, urged Kwankwaso not to lose sight of the enormous challenges ahead of the party.

He said, Now we are faced with real economic crisis to add to it all. The APC is going to provide this nation with a steady hand, an experienced hand, a competent hand.

Our prayer is for those of you who have indicated interest in this very onerous responsibility, because what you are going to take over from the Peoples Democratic Party, is a nation that is virtually pulled to pieces in every aspect of human life.

Oyegun expressed confidence that the partys manifestoes, which he described as people-oriented, would improve the living standard of Nigerians, if carefully and faithfully implemented.

Earlier, Kwankwaso promised to return smiles to the face of Nigerians if elected President next year.

Meanwhile, a fresh crisis is looming in the APC over alleged plan by the partys leadership to give automatic tickets to serving loyal legislators.

The arrangement, it was learnt, was to reduce tension as well as strengthen loyalty among the partys members especially in the National Assembly.

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