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Plateau state chapter of the All Progressives Congress has expressed its willingness to receive members of the Peoples Democratic Party who were rejected by their party.

The PDP had asked some of its members eyeing the office of the governor to stop parading themselves as members of the party and to stop using the partys platform to boost their aspirations.

The members include former governors Joshua Dariye and Fidelis Tapgun, Mr. John Alkali, Mr. Jimmy Cheto and Mr. Jonathan Sheni.

An APC chief, Gen. John Shagaya (retd.), told our correspondent in an interview in Jos on Wednesday that the party would joyously receive them with open arms.

He said We are optimistic that the aggrieved members of the PDP would defect to the APC as the crisis in the ruling party deepens. On our own, we are set to ensure victory for our party in the general election come 2015. We are happy about the mistakes the ruling party in the state is doing.

What is happening now was bound to happen and our party could provide an alternative for disgruntled members, who are unhappy with the way they have been treated in PDP.

Shagaya, who represented Plateau-South in the Senate, also disclosed that he would be seeking re-election into the Senate in the forthcoming elections.

The PDP had asked four of its governorship aspirants and the immediate past governor of the state, Chief Joshua Dariye, to stop using the partys logo for their campaign materials.

Cheto, Tapgun, Sheni, and Alkali, who the party reprimanded for identifying with it, have their posters in parts of the state announcing their intention to vie for the governorship ticket of the party.

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Six candidates for Surrey Board of Education (clockwise from top) Rayman Bhuller, Patricia Enair, Niovi Patsicakis, Charlene Dobie, Sara Sharma and Kirsty Peterson have formed a coalition called Surrey Progressives.

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A group of six independent candidates for Surrey school trustee have joined forces in hopes of bringing a "new and progressive" voice to the board table.

The so-called Surrey Progressives includes incumbent Trustee Charlene Dobie, as well as hopefuls Rayman Bhuller, Patricia Enair, Kirsty Peterson, Sara Sharma and Niovi Patsicakis.

The group says though it's not an official electoral organization or party, the candidates have "a common vision for public education in Surrey."

Dobie hopes to retain her seat of the Surrey Board of Education after first being elected in 2011 as part of the now-dissolved Surrey Civic Coalition.

Patsicakis is a retired (LST) Learning Support Teacher, Enair was co-chair of Surrey's District Parent Advisory Council for eight years, Peterson is Chapter Development Officer for Canadian Parents for French B.C. & Yukon branch, and Sharma and Bhuller are both real estate agents.

Surrey Progressives will be holding an open house Oct. 25, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 8097 134 St. For more information, check http://www.surreyprogressives.ca

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The All Progressives Congress on Tuesday wrote a letter to President Goodluck Jonathan alleging threats against its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed by the leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Mujahid Dokubo-Asari.

In the letter which was signed by its National Secretary, Mai Mala Buni, the APC said Asaris threat, was contained in an interview granted to the online newspaper Premium Timeson Friday, Oct. 17th 2014.

According to the party, the threat was sequel to a press statement which was issued on behalf of the party by Mohammed on Oct. 8th 2014, asking the Federal Government to explain the reported presence of Mr. Asari Dokubo on the plane that transported US$9.3 million cash to South Africa In the interview, Mr. Asari Dokubo said while he would adopt a civilised response to Mr. Mohammed by first suing the APC spokesperson for his remarks, he (Asari Dokubo) warned that should the courts fail to deliver justice, he will resort to self-help by using his hands and any other means to deal with Mr. Mohammed.

The party said we find this threat totally abhorring, dangerous, unacceptable and uncivilized, and therefore wish to request that you call Mr. Asari Dokubo to order and invite him to explain what he meant by his threat to resort to self help.

We have attached a copy of the said interview to this petition.

We take the unwarranted threat very seriously, in view of the antecedents of Mr. Asari Dokubo and his propensity to violence, and will definitely hold him personally responsible if anything untoward happens to our National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.

The party noted that since ours is a country that operates under the rule of law rather than the laws of the jungle, it believes anyone who is aggrieved over any issue should resort to the courts to seek redress.

It explained that where aggrieved persons decide to take the laws into their own hands, as Mr. Asari Dokubo has threatened, it is an invitation to anarchy.

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A chief of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has apologised to the leadership of the BringBackOurGirls movement, over a statement he made in which he said the group consisted of APC members.

Ogbeh was speaking during the declaration of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) for the Presidency in Abuja last week, when he made a slip that the BBOG was made up of APC members, a claim that riled the group and which the members found offensive.

Presidential aides who frowned at the activities of the BBOG had, earlier alleged that the group was being sponsored by the APC, until the party chief committed what amounted to a Freudian slip.

But Ogbeh in a letter of apology dated October 20, 2014, and addressed to the BBOG leadership, said his remarks were not meant to paint the coalition as an APC subgroup.

The letter reads, Dear patriots, I feel obliged to let you know that my statement at our function last week was not intended to paint your group as an APC subgroup. This is because from what we know, less than 2 per cent of the group are our party members, but members we value highly.

The rest of you are not and may not even belong to any political association whatsoever. This is not to say you have no right to be if you choose to. If my statement caused you discomfort, I do apologise, but reiterate that I have nothing but respect and admiration for you for keeping a six-month vigil and telling the world that the Nigerian conscience is not entirely dead. The world is watching and making judgement.

Meanwhile, a co-coordinator, BBOG, Hadiza Usman, has flayed statements credited to some government officials that her group was an affiliate of the APC, stressing that her campaign for the release of the 219 Chibok schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram, was motivated by her status as a mother and a Nigerian.

Usman in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, stated that she had never hidden the fact that she was an APC member, stressing that her activism in the BBOG, had nothing to do with party politics.

She said, I have watched, with keen interest, recent attempts by some principal officers of the Federal Government to discredit me and the #BringBackOurGirls group. This is not new. It has been the case since we commenced our citizens-driven advocacy movement, which explains why my initial reaction was to ignore the chatter and concentrate on the noble work of the #BringBackOurGirls campaign.

I am a member of the APC, and there has been no time I have hidden this fact or tried to mask it. But lets be clear, when I worked to mobilise women, men, and Nigerians at large to come out on April 30th to protest that the Government should intensify efforts to #BringBackOurGirls, I did so not as an APC member, but first as a human being, as a woman, a mother, a Nigerian and an African. It was never about politics and/or my political affiliations; it was rather about our shared humanity as human beings.

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A Presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, Mr. Sam Nda Isaiah, has promised to rehabilitate Nigerians from the hardships brought to them by the harsh policies of President Goodluck Jonathans government.

A statement issued by the media office of Nda Isaiah and made available to our correspondent in Asaba on Tuesday, said the publisher-turned politician said if he gets the ticket of the APC, he would lead the party to a successful campaign for people-oriented policies.

I understand the anger and concerns of a greatnumber of Nigerians, unemployment, job insecurity, poor housing, poor healthcare and lastly insecurity which is becoming a prolonged nightmare in Nigeria.

As a professional and a presidential aspirant that can claim to know his onions, I understandthe fears about our common future, the failures of our democracy to lift Nigerians out of poverty to prosperity, the APC chieftain said.

I want to offer Nigerian youths a better life than I had; I want to put the drive back in the Nigerian dream, he said.

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