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TheNational Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Oyegun, says the party will transform Nigeria if elected into power in 2015.

Oyegun spoke on Monday in Sokoto at the inauguration of the north west executive committee and a special rally.

The party wants to ensure the complete transformation of the nation when elected into power at all levels during the forthcoming polls.

This transformation will include the power sector, security, education, eradication of unemployment and poverty, among others, he added.

Oyegun commended GovernorAliyu Wamakko of the state for transforming the state in the past seven years.

Governor Aliyu Wamakko and his Kano, Imo, Edo and Zamfara colleagues, said that the partywas capable of bringing the desired change to Nigeria.

The governors also said, Nigerians want change and to maximise the God-given potentials of the country.

The APC governors and members across Nigeria are bonded by sheer vision and mission to effect change in the country, the governors added.

The Deputy National Chairman of the party, Sen. Lawal Shuaibu, said that the rally was the beginning of the crusade to bring the change Nigerians needed.

The state chairman of the party, Alhaji Bala Hassan, saidthat APC wouldemerge victorious in 2015 at all levels in the country.

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Paul Ryan claims to be Wisconsinite through and through." But there is one thing about Wisconsin that he despises: the states progressive tradition. Wall Streets favorite congressman gives speeches decrying the legacy of Republicans like Wisconsin Sens. Robert M. La Follette and John Blaine, and he devotes several pages of his 2016 presidential campaign book to ripping the Wisconsin progressives for looking to methods of science to guide government and society.

The House Budget Committee chairman even appeared on Glenn Becks radio show to announce that: "What Ive been trying to do is indict the entire vision of progressivism because I see progressivism as the source, the intellectual source for the big government problems that are plaguing us today. And so to me its really important to flush progressives out into the field of open debate so people can actually see what this ideology means and where its going to lead us and how it attacks the American idea."

"I love you!" gushed Beck.

Beck referred to progressivism as "a cancer."

"Exactly, replied Ryan.

It is probably a good bet, then, that Ryan will miss Saturdays Fighting Bob Fest, the annual gathering of thousands of progressives that takes its name from Robert M. La Follette, celebrates La Follettes legacy and argues that his vision and that of the generations of Wisconsin leaders who have embraced it -- from his sons, Gov. Phil La Follette and Sen. Robert M. La Follette Jr., to Gaylord Nelson and Robert Kastenmeier, to Russ Feingold and Peg Lautenschlager, to Tammy Baldwin and Mark Pocan -- remains the truest expression of the state and its ideals.

When Ryan attacks La Follette, it is for national consumption. Like Gov. Scott Walker, who also rages against La Follette and the progressive tradition, Ryan wants to be considered as a 2016 presidential prospect. Both men would have a tough time winning Wisconsin as leaders of a national Republican ticket, as Ryan learned when he and Mitt Romney got whipped in 2012. So they are ripping on progressivism as part of a broader strategy of appealing to the new generation of robber barons who fund a degenerate remnant of the Republican Party of Lincoln, La Follette, Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower.

Charles and David Koch, and the network of billionaire and millionaire donors they lead, delight in attacks on progressive policies and politics. As a source for New Yorker writer Jane Mayers classic portrait of the Kochs explained, They are out to destroy progressivism.

And understandably so.

Progressivism as it has always been understood in Wisconsin seeks to bust the trusts, to break up the monopolies, to end the crony capitalist deals that help multimillionaires become billionaires. Above all, progressives have favored tax fairness that shifts the burden of maintaining government and a civil society off the shoulders of working families. This is done by addressing the abuses of the robber barons and corporate monopolies that use every method -- including foreign bank accounts and addresses -- to avoid paying their fair share.

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The All Progressives Congress says contrary to speculations, it is not opposed to the aspirations of the Igbo nation.

The party said this while responding to an ultimatum issued to it by the youth wing of a Pan-Igbo group, Ohaneze Ndigbo, that the APC must apologise to the entire Igbo community for branding the former Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika (retd.), a Boko Haram sponsor, or prepare to be shunned at the polls in 2015.

In a statement issued by the APC South-East, spokesperson, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, it assured the Igbo, especially the Ohaneze Ndigbo Youth Wing that its aim was the welfare of all Nigerians, irrespective of the part of the country they originate from.

The APC said its National Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun, did not accuse Ihejirika of sponsoring Boko Haram but only called for an investigation into the allegation levelled against him by the Australian negotiator, Dr. Stephen Davis.

The APC said, For the avoidance of doubt, what our National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, said was that President Goodluck Jonathan should invite the International Criminal Court to investigate and prosecute Senator Ali Modu Sherif and Lt-Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika (retd.), consequent upon the allegation levelled by the Federal Government negotiator, Dr. Stephen Davis. Nigeria is a signatory to the ICC and it seems Boko Haram has overwhelmed Mr. President.

The APC in league with other Nigerian patriots is of the candid view that unravelling the masterminds, sponsors, allies and sympathisers of the monster called Boko Haram, is a sure bet to stamping out the insurgency.

This is what our great party is patriotically demanding, and we sincerely reassure Ohaneze Ndigbo Youth Wing that we mean well. We have no apology to tender to anybody.

The party added that it acted in the best tradition of democracy by asking Jonathan to invite the ICC to investigate and prosecute Sheriff, Ihejirika and any other person found culpable.

It said, It needs to be stated that the Federal Government of Nigeria more than a week after Daviss startling allegation has neither made a rebuttal statement nor dismissed the Australian.

Mrs. Marlyn Ogar is the spokesperson of the Department of Security Service, she is not Dr. Reuben Abati or Mr. Labaran Maku presidential spokesman and Federal Government spokesman respectively. To say that her statements recently are more or less unprofessional and less than transparent is a food for thought for Ohaneze Ndigbo Youths and their co-travellers.

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The All Progressives Congress has asked the Enugu State House of Assembly to investigate how the former deputy governor, Mr. Sunday Onyebuchi, was able to hold an elected political office without resigning from the state civil service.

The APC called on the lawmakers to impeach Governor Sullivan Chime if investigation shows that he knew how a civil servant (Onyebuchi) became a deputy governor for seven years plus.

Following Onyebuchis controversial redeployment to the Enugu State Civil Service after his impeachment over allegations of gross misconduct, reports emerged that he did not formally resign from the service, and as a result, his appointment was never terminated, before he became the deputy governor.

The Chairman of the Enugu State Chapter of the APC, Dr. Ben Nwoye, on Monday told journalists that the development amounted to a fraud that must be investigated by the Enugu lawmakers if the Assembly was not a rubber stamp of the executive arm of government.

The APC chief added that the matter was enough to warrant Chimes impeachment, since he was aware that Onyebuchi never resigned from the civil service.

Nwoye described Onyebuchis tenure as deputy governor when he had not resigned from the civil service, where he held the rank of a permanent secretary before taking up political office, as a case of ghost worker.

Enugu people should be duly informed that they have been cheated, it is fraudulent it is a case of ghost worker.

We should investigate and find out whether he was being paid as a permanent secretary while he was in office as the deputy governor, he said.

The Enugu APC chairman added that Onyebuchis emergence as a deputy governor, while his appointment with the civil service was still running, was illegal as it was not in compliance with the due process.

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The All Progressives Congress on Monday rebuffed threats by the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Wing to label it as an anti-Igbo political party if it fails to apologise to former Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika.

The Ohanaeze youths had on Sunday given the APC 48 hours to make the apology, or be tagged with the anti-Igbo label for calling on the International Criminal Court of Justice to prosecute Ihejirika for allegedly sponsoring the Boko Haram sect, as claimed by Australian negotiator, Mr. Stephen Davies.

The Ohanaeze youths pointed to Ihejirikas exoneration by the Department of State Services to justify its demand for the apology.

But, barely 24 hours after the South-East youth umbrella body issued the threat, the APC has responded, saying it would not apologise to the retired army general.

The APC replied the Ohanaeze youths in a statement signed, and made available to our correspondent, by its South East spokesman, Mr. Osita Okechukwu.

In the statement captioned APC is Pan-Nigeria Not Anti-Igbo, the opposition party said, For the avoidance of doubt, what our National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun called is for President Goodluck Jonathan, GCFR, to invite the International Criminal Court of Justice to investigate and prosecute Senator Ali Modu Sheriff and Lt.-Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika (retd), consequent upon the allegation levelled by the Federal Government negotiator, Rev. Dr Stephen Davis. Nigeria is signatory to ICC and it seems Boko Haram has overwhelmed Mr. President.

APC in league with other Nigerian patriots is of the candid view that unravelling the masterminds, sponsors, allies and sympathizers of the monster called Boko Haram is a sure bet to stamping out the insurgency.

This is what our great party is patriotically demanding, and we sincerely reassure Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Wing that we mean well.

We have no apology to tender to anybody.

APC in the best tradition of democracy is requesting President Goodluck Jonathan, GCFR, C-in-C, to use his good office to invite ICC to first investigate and secondly to prosecute Senator Sheriff, Gen. Ihejirika or any person found culpable, simple and short.

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