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Rob Ford was elected mayor four years ago on a promise to take a sledgehammer to city council, its transit plans, and its budget. Immediately after he won, councils left wing began trying to figure out how to thwart his agenda.

John Tory was elected mayor Monday on a promise to bring council together. He will get a grace period.

Tory, a moderate conservative, will be granted an opportunity to be the consensus-building pragmatist he said he would be, progressive councillors said in interviews Wednesday.

We have to give him a chance. We have to give his staff a chance, said Paula Fletcher (Ward 30, Toronto-Danforth). I think council has proved that it wants a balanced approach in the city of Toronto. A steady, balanced approach. And Ill certainly give him a chance to make sure that thats what hes going to do. Thats just what I think people want in the city.

Tory did not release a formal platform, and several of his promises were unspecific. One progressive councillor, who asked for anonymity to candidly discuss strategy, said Tory has such a vague mandate Im not Rob Ford, well all get along, Im not going to increases taxes past inflation, and Im going to build SmartTrack someday that he has left an awful lot of room for conversation with the left.

Its Torys move, the councillor said. By the end of January, it should be clear what kind of administration he wants to run. And well govern ourselves accordingly.

Torys honeymoon may not be mere post-election courtesy. Maria Augimeri, a suburban progressive Tory supported in the election, said he will receive more votes on some issues from progressives than from conservatives.

This is a pro-housing guy. This is a pro-transit guy, said Augimeri (Ward 9, York Centre).

Augimeri said she expects Tory to operate in the inclusive manner of Mel Lastman, to whom he was an informal advisor. Lastman, another conservative, created positions to suit the passions of several progressives: Jack Layton was made homelessness advocate, Olivia Chow childrens advocate, Joe Pantalone tree advocate.

Every progressive had a leadership role. I envision that John Torys administration would be similar to that, Augimeri said.

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The All Progressives Congress said on Thursday that the usage of card readers by the Independent National Electoral Commission for the 2015 general election remained one of the best ways to guarantee free and fair poll.

National Chairman of the party, Chief John Oyegun, stated this in Abuja when he received the ECOWAS Fact Finding team to Nigeria led by former Ghanaian President, John Kuffour, in his office.

He said the INEC had no excuse not to deploy the technology because some countries in West Africa with lesser population and human resources, were already using it.

He said, We are hoping that INEC will do their best. Good as the chairman is, he does not know the reality of what is on ground under him.

Our prayer as far as INEC is concerned is that they use card readers in the election so that we can be sure of cleaner process. It is a no go area and a must that card reader has to be used.

The Peoples Democratic Party is doing everything within its power to convince the world that we are not ready for it. But if countries like Ghana, India and the rest of them are able to deploy this technology, I cannot see why we cannot use it in Nigeria.

The APC chairman also said there should be no militalisation of the electoral process like what was witnessed in the recent polls conducted in Ekiti and Osun states.

He said, It was alright they tried it in Ekiti. But in Osun State, we had to convince them that if they try what they did in Ekiti, then, it will be a mutually destructive process.

I think that at the very last minute, they tried to announce some fake results but at that time, we had gotten the results of every process and they knew that if they did anything contrary, they would have plunged that state into total anarchy.

Our prayer is that they dont try to replicate that at the national level.

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Progressives: The New Gods
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By Gabriel Enogholase

WARRI-- All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, claimed that no election took place in Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State during last Saturday's council polls, threatening to go to court.

This came even as members recounted how they were allegedly attacked by suspected political thugs.

While victims of the alleged attacks were said to be receiving treatment at unnamed hospitals in the state, no fewer than 30 vehicles of APC and its members were equally said to have been vandalized by the thugs.

Meanwhile, women of Gbokoda, Udo, Tebu and Aja Amita communities in Warri North, yesterday, demanded a re-run of the local government elections for them to elect their true leaders.

The women, on the platform of Women Forum, WF, in a petition addressed to the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 5, Benin, and copied to Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, Commissioner of Police, Department of State Service, DSS, Asaba; JTF Commander, among others, expressed total rejection of the outcome of the elections.

While declaring that no election took place in the local government, state Organizing Secretary of APC, Mr. Amorighoye Mene, described the present administration in the state as "bad and wicked," claiming that Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was not on ground in North Warri Local Government.

Mene alleged that PDP, led by a Warri Chief (names withheld) brought thugs to attack APC members and destroyed more than 30 vehicles belonging to them.

APC councillorship candidate for Abi-Ugborodo ward in Warri North Local Government, Mr. George Inowandajegha, said: "I was attacked with a machete by PDP thugs."

Another victim of the alleged attack is Mr. Siko Eyenmi, from Ogbonbiri, who is APC vice chairmanship candidate for Warri North.

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National chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Chief Victor Umeh, on Tuesday said the party is not an appendage of the Peoples Democratic Party.

Umeh spoke in a lecture titled Towards a successful 2015 election: The role of the opposition, which he delivered to mark the inauguration of the executive committee of the Correspondents Chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, in Enugu.

He made the assertion in apparent response to the South East zonal spokesman of the All Progressives Congress, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, who had, earlier in a keynote speech at the event, described APGA as an appendage of the PDP.

APGA is a distinct political party which cannot be an appendage of another political party, Umeh said.

However, he noted that the fact that APGA was not in power at the federal level does not mean that the party must oppose the Federal Government.

According to him, The term opposition is misleading in Nigeria we assume that once you are not in government you must be opposing government.

You must not oppose government all the time if you are not in government.

In developed countries (opposition parties) means those who are not in government but are interested in government.

Umeh accused the APC of engaging in blind opposition.

He also offered an insight into APGAs refusal to join merge with the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria and All Nigeria Peoples Party to form the APC.

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