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The member representing Ekiti Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, on Wednesday described as untrue and baseless, allegations by some members of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state that the All Progressives Congress was planning to frustrate the inauguration of the Governor Elect, Mr. Ayo Fayose, on October 16.

Ojudu, who spoke with our correspondent in Abuja, denied the alleged move by the APC to use the crisis between Fayose and the judiciary in the state to stop the swearing-in of the governor-elect.

He said, It is not true that the All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State is plotting to frustrate the inauguration of Fayose on October 16. What APC had done is to go to the tribunal to challenge the election of Fayose and the court was about to sit when Fayose invaded the court with his thugs and disrupted it.

The senator explained that invasion of the court by Fayoses men, informed the relocation of the tribunal outside the state so that members can sit in a separate location.

He also added that the E-11 group had instituted its case against Fayose before the governorship election and that it was the annual court vacation that stalled the hearing of the suit before the poll.

He said, The E-11 had gone to court since May 23 to challenge the qualification of Fayose to contest the election. But there was a strike, and the court later went on vacation, and the suit suffered some setback, so they are just hearing it now.

Why is the PDP in Ekiti blaming its misfortune on other people? It is taken that when anybody is aggrieved, the place to resolve it is the court and not through self help. The E-11 went to court, and the APC went to court.

It is the Fayoses group that went to court to beat up judges and disrupt court proceedings. Why are they now claiming to be the victim.

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A chief of the All Progressives Congress, Dr. Bukola Saraki, hassaid that APC will not disintegrate because of its presidentialprimaries.

He stated that the contestants had given assurance that they wouldabide by the outcome of the primaries and would work for the overallinterest of the party.

In an interview with journalists in Ilorin on Monday, he also said itwas a mere propaganda that APC would disintegrate after itsprimaries. He said such propaganda would not materialise.

According to him, the presidential primaries would rather unify andstrengthen the party.

Saraki said, This is the propaganda from the opposition. I want toassure Nigerians that the fact we are going to have the primariesshould not in any way disintegrate the party. I believe that even suchprimaries will help to unify the party. We saw it during the era ofSocial Democratic Party; after the primaries, the party did notdisintegrate, rather it made the party stronger.

Even in the early days of the Peoples Democratic Party, ChiefOlusegun Obasanjo and Dr. Alex Ekwueme had primaries and the party didnot disintegrate. I can open up and tell you that I have had theopportunity to sit with General Muhammadu Buhari, Alhaji AbubakarAtiku and Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwaso. There are assurances from them that whichever way the primary goes, they will support whoever emerges asthe candidate.

When we started to merge with the legacy parties, the opposition saidthe party will disintegrate with the merger. After that they said thatby the time we go for national convention the party woulddisintegrate, yet none happened.

The party will not disintegrate because we are all making sacrificesevery day. It is not easy to come together to take on a governmentwith this level of impunity. We are all doing this because we trulybelieve that this is the best way for Nigeria. I have utmostconfidence that whoever emerges as the presidential flag bearer forAPC, we will rally round the person.

Saraki who is Chairman, Senate Committee on Ecology and Environment,said he would soon inform Nigerians whether he would contest for the2015 presidential election or not.

He urged all Nigerians to rise above selfish ambitions and makenecessary sacrifices that would uplift the country.

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A former Vice-President and All Progressives Congress presidential aspirant, Atiku Abubakar, has called for devolution of powers to give more resources to states in the country.

According to him, most of responsibilities being carried out by the Federal Government are supposed to be handled by the State Government.

He said the 2015 general elections was another opportunity for Nigerians to chase out the Peoples Democratic Party by voting for the APC.

Abubakar stated this on Monday in Ado Ekiti at the inauguration of the ultra-modern Oba Adejugbe General Hospital built by Governor Kayode Fayemi to mark the end of his four-year tenure in office.

Fayemi assured that the state had made efforts to ensure that itwas free of the Ebola.

Abubakar, who commended Fayemi for the feats explained that the Federal Government had no reason venturing into agriculture, health, employment and others, which were the fundamental statutory duties of the state government.

He said,The Federal Government is too powerful in Nigeria and has taken in more responsibilities than it is supposed to be. There is need to devolve powers to the state and if we move powers to the state government, we should also move resources alongside.

The Federal Government has no business handling projects in health, agriculture, employment and other sectors. I have always been saying this each time I have the opportunity.

The Federal Government ought to be left with foreign policy, defence and monetary policy, so that the Presidency can be made less attractive to reduce the tension in the polity.

Abubakar described the APC as a strong and better organised party to tackle poverty and rescue Nigerians from the sufferings brought by the PDP in the last 15 years.

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