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The All Progressives Congress in Cross River State has expelled nine of its members over alleged constitutional breaches and disloyalty.

The nine members were said to have dragged the party before a court as a fallout of the Junes state congress of the party.

The Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the National Vice Chairman South-South, Mr. Bassey Ita, who disclosed in Calabar on Thursday, said the expelled members also rebuffed all appeals and attempt by the party hierarchy to ensure an out-of-court settlement of the matter.

He gave the names of those affected to include Ramsey Ndep; Chris Egbe; Innocent Eneji; James Enyam; Sam Iya; Bassey Ene Ekpo; Anthony Ekpeyong; Onen Obono and Rosemary Onah.

He said, Article 9.5 of the party constitution provides that membership of the party ceases for anyone on account of death, resignation or expulsion.

Also Article 21(D) provides that any member who files an action in court of law against the party or any of its officers on any matter or matters relating to the discharge of the duties of the party without first exhausting the avenues for redress shall automatically stand expelled from the partyand no appeal against expulsion shall be entertained until the withdrawal of this action from court by the member.

The aforementioned members had dragged the party to court alleging the June congress was fraught with discrepancies.

Ita said following the development, the national leaders of the party through the South-South zonal office issued an ultimatum dated September 2 appealing to the affected members to withdraw the litigation against the party or risked sanction.

He said the ultimatum, which was signed by the National Vice Chairman, South-South, Mr. Hilliard Eta, stated in part, I am further directed to inform you that failure to adhere to these directives will lead to full invocation of the relevant sections of our party constitution.

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APC expels nine in Cross River for suing party

The All Progressives Congress on Thursday urged President Goodluck Jonathan to secure the release of the schoolgirls, who were abducted from Chibok, Borno State, by the Boko Haram sect over six months ago if indeed the Presidency knows where they are.

The party, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in Abuja, said the President should not seek to make political gains out of the situation.

It said, Mr. President, tongues are wagging that you know where the girls are and that you want them to be released only when it will give you the maximum political advantage. We dont know if this is true or not, but if it is, please release the girls now.

It is cruel and unconscionable for anyone to use these girls as pawns on a political chessboard. They have now been in captivity for over six full months. Please, end the agony of the girls parents and, indeed, of all Nigerians.

The APC said President Jonathan has exhibited an unprecedented nonchalance over the plight of the girls.

It noted that the President waited for 19 days before admitting that the girls had been abducted, losing a critical window of opportunity to rescue them from their abductors.

The party said, A little over a month after the girls were abducted, the Chief of Defence Staff said the security leadership in the country had located where Boko Haram is holding the abducted girls. Since then, Nigerians have been waiting for the girls to be rescued, to no avail. No one has told Nigerians the problems that are mitigating against the release of the girls, be it logistic or otherwise.

More recently, on September 23, the military tweeted the imminent release of the girls, only to retract the statement shortly, thereafter. However, in the intervening period, thousands of supporters of the President had gathered at the Pierre Hotel in New York to welcome the President (who was then in New York for the UN General Assembly session) after the release of the girls, while media interviews had been booked for him. No one has told Nigerians why that imminent release of the girls was botched.

The party added that a flurry of nocturnal activities had been going on to negotiate the release of the girls, even after the same government said it would never negotiate their release.

It is clear that President Jonathan has suddenly shown more interest in their release after his consensus nomination as the PDP candidate for next years elections. Our appeal, therefore, is for the President to allow the immediate release of the girls, rather than wait for when it will give maximum boost to his political fortunes, it said.

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TheAll Progressives Congress has accused the Peoples Democratic Party in Osun State of planning to deliberately cause crisis in the state with its interpretation of the ruling of the Appeal Court.

The Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy of the APC in Osun State, Mr. Kunle Oyatomi, who said this in a statement on Wednesday, called on security agencies in the state to be at alert to prevent the opposition party from throwing the state into confusion.

The Court of Appeal had thrown out the appeal filed by the Independent National Electoral Commission and the Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Ambassador Rufus Akeju, seeking to upturn an earlier judgment of a High Court that Akeju could not preside over the 2011 election in the state because of his alleged relationship with former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu.

The PDP interpreted the striking out of the appeal to mean that all elections conducted by the REC had become invalid and state lawmakers and members of the National Assembly from the state should be sacked.

The statement read, Security agencies should be prepared to nip in the bud the threat to peace and security, which the Peoples Democratic Party has become over the issue of the Appeal Court ruling in Akure, which struck out INECs appeal against its Resident Electoral Commissioner, Amb. Toyin Akeju, from supervising the 2011 legislative elections in the state.

From competent information we have and the intelligence deductions we could make from the PDP chairman, Alhaji Gani Olaoluwas statement to forcefully stop the lawful business of the State House of Assembly, it is obvious that the PDP planned to orchestrate mayhem in the state.

Had there been a declaration, ruling or judgment on the 2011 legislative elections by the Federal High Court, Osogbo? We should ask the mischievous PDP people: what was the issue the INEC appealed against? Did it include that pertaining to the elections for which the High Court did not restrain it from conducting? In fact, the High Court refused that prayer.

We therefor appeal to the security officials not to allow illiterates, who are currently leading the PDP in the state, to throw Osun into confusion.

We are particularly grateful for the response of the State Police Command, which put paid to PDPs attempt to create mayhem at the State House of Assembly on Monday and we also like to emphasise that the threat to peace and security from the PDP is not over yet.

Olaoluwa had said the implication of the appellate courts ruling was that lawmakers produced by the election, which Akeju supervised, should be sacked.

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THE All Progressives Congress in Rivers State and the Grassroots Development Initiative have disagreed on Wednesdays resignation of the Minister of State for Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, and his move to contest the 2015 governorship election.

While the state APC saw Wikes resignation and governorship ambition as a political suicide, the GDI maintained that his resignation was an answer to calls that he (Wike) should quit the Federal Executive Council and contest the governorship primary of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state.

The State Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mr. Chris Fynebone, said in an interview with our correspondent that Wike would suffer the worst defeat in the hand of any governorship candidate should he (Wike) contest the 2015 election.

Fynebone cautioned that the political calculation in the state did not support anybody from Ikwerre to succeed the current governor of the state, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, who hails from the same area as Wike.

I am speaking as an Ijaw person now. We learnt that Wike has resigned to contest the 2015 governorship election. It is a political suicide because he will suffer the biggest defeat any governorship candidate has ever suffered.

His ambition will estrange the Ijaw people from the Ikwerre people and this means he (Wike) will get less than five per cent of the votes from the Ijaw people.

The very moment he (Wike) picks the ticket to contest the governorship election, voting based on party lines or affiliation will melt away, the state APC publicity secretary added.

But the Secretary-General of GDI, Mr. Samuel Nwanosike, described Wikes resignation and governorship ambition as a welcome development, adding that the former minister has what it takes to win the forthcoming poll.

Nwanosike, who spoke in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Wednesday, explained that the former minister would leave no stone unturned to clinch the sole ticket of the PDP.

He boasted that the grand patron of GDI would not only win the PDP primary election, Wike would also win the general election.

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Rivers APC, group clash over Wikes resignation

The All Progressives Congress in Rivers State and the Grassroots Development Initiative have disagreed on Wednesdays resignation of the Minister of State for Education, Chief Nyesom Wike and his move to contest the 2015 governorship election.

While the state APC sees Wikes resignation and governorship ambition as a political suicide, the GDI maintained that his resignation was an answer to calls that he (Wike) should quit the Federal Executive Council and contest the governorship primary of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state.

State Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mr. Chris Fynebone, said in an interview with our correspondent that Wike would suffer the worst defeat by any governorship candidate should he (Wike) contest the 2015 election.

Finebone cautioned that the political calculation in the state did not support anybody from Ikwerre to succeed the current Governor of the state, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, who hails from the same area with Wike.

He said, I am speaking as an Ijaw person now. We learnt that Wike has resigned to contest the 2015 governorship election. It is a political suicide because he will suffer the biggest defeat any governorship candidate has ever suffered.

His ambition will estrange the Ijaw people from the Ikwerre people and this means he (Wike) will get less than five percent of the votes from the Ijaw people.

The very moment, he (Wike) picks the ticket to contest the governorship election, voting based on party lines or affiliation will melt away.

But the Secretary-General of GDI, Mr. Samuel Nwanosike, described Wikes resignation and governorship ambition as a welcome development, adding that the former minister has what it takes to win the forthcoming poll.

Nwanosike, who spoke in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Wednesday, explained that the former minister would leave no stone unturned to clinch the sole ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party.

He boasted that the grand patron of GDI would not only win the PDP primary election, Wike would also win the general election.

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Rivers APC, group differ on Wikes resignation, ambition