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Ahea of the 2015 general elections, the All Progressives Grand Alliance has offered automatic tickets to President Goodluck Jonathan and Chief Victor Umeh.

Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State disclosed this on Saturday in Awka where a mega-rally was to urge Jonathan to seek re-election as President.

Obiano however said the partys candidates for all other elective positions will be determined through primaries.

While Jonathan has the partys presidential ticket, Umeh, APGAs national chairman, will fly the partys banner in the Anambra Central Senatorial election.

Umeh said APGA has gone into an accord with the Peoples Democratic Party to support Jonathan for the presidential election.

Former Anambra State Governor, Mr. Peter Obi, was absent at the rally. But Obiano said Obi got permission to travel to the United States to attend the World Igbo Congress.

Former Senate President Ken Nnamani and former PDP national womens leader, Mrs. Josephine Anenih, presented solidarity messages at the rally.

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Two weeks from tomorrow, Saturday, Sept. 13, is a big day for Wisconsin progressives.

That's when the 13th annual Fighting Bob Fest takes place back at where it was founded at the Sauk County Fairgrounds just east of Baraboo and all good progressives need to be there.

Bob Fest has become a huge annual gathering, attracting some of the country's best-known progressive speakers and featuring breakout sessions on everything from poverty to public education plus lots of music and just plain old fun in between.

It's modeled after the old-fashioned political chautauquas that were popular throughout the country back in the early 20th century when Wisconsin's Robert M. "Fighting Bob" La Follette was campaigning for office. Sponsored by The Capital Times and the Progressive Magazine, which was founded by La Follette, the annual festival is aimed at keeping the Wisconsin progressive spirit alive.

Local favorite Bernie Sanders, the independent Vermont senator who has been at the forefront of reforming the VA hospital system and calling for a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's "Citizen's United" decision, will again be the keynote speaker at this year's fest.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke is scheduled to address the gathering in the late morning. Other speakers include Rep. Mark Pocan, Kevin Alexander Gray, Lisa Graves, Chris Hedges, Will Durst, Ruth Conniff, Anne Feeney, Mike McCabe and Bad River Indian Chief Mike Wiggins.

Professor Nancy Unger, the author of "Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer," will once again lead a breakout session on La Follette family history, this year focusing on Fighting Bob's wife, Belle La Follette.

Nino Amato will lead a breakout on poverty and racial disparities; Michael Copps, Professor Bob McChesney and John Nichols will talk about media reform; the Center for Media and Democracy's Lisa Graves will lead a discussion about ALEC and the Koch brothers; Roger Bybee will lead a panel on getting your message across; and Progressive Editor Ruth Conniff, along with One Wisconsin Now's Scot Ross and Madison teachers' union John Matthews, will talk about defending public education.

As always, Bob Fest and the parking at the fairgrounds are free, but donations are accepted to help defray the cost of speakers' travel, rental fees and other costs. It all begins at 9 and ends around 5.

As in other years, a Friday evening, Sept. 12, bash in Madison will take place at the Barrymore Theater on Atwood Avenue, starting at 6:30. Sanders will make an appearance, as will Madison Mayor Paul Soglin, and state Reps. Mandela Barnes, Dianne Hesselbein, Melissa Sargent and Chris Taylor. The evening will conclude with Progressive columnist Will Durst's comedy act. The fee for that event is $10 at the door.

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LAGOS -- PROSPECTS of the country's major opposition party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, were shaking, yesterday, ahead of a decisive ruling on the validity of the party's registration by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Besides, some party members were also apprehensive on the direction of the party following tension among party leaders on account of recent disagreements.

Some party insiders were fearful that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu who had been a major rallying point for the opposition party might be losing enthusiasm over what sources claimed as the increasing opposition to him by other major party stakeholders, mainly some governors.

A ruling by a Federal High Court, Abuja, today, was anxiously being expected on a suit instituted by the unregistered African Peoples Congress, APC against the registration of the All Progressives Congress by INEC.

A loss for INEC in the suit in which the All Progressives Congress was refused to be joined in as a party, could be catastrophic for the new political party and put it in possible jeopardy ahead of crucial gubernatorial elections in Ekiti and Osun states.

Tinubu, according to sources was not enthusiastic about the meeting expected to deliberate on outstanding issues flowing from recent congresses across the country. Tinubu, it is alleged, is miffed over the recent turn of events in the party which has seen him at the short end on three sensitive issues to the club of governors in the party.

Tinubu, according to party sources lost out on the venue of the convention, the choice of a chairman of the convention planning committee and on the zoning of the office of national chairman in the next executive.

Following the development, there were fears that Tinubu who had alongside General Muhammadu Buhari been the rallying point in the merger could lose enthusiasm for the new party. Party spokesman, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, however, rebuffed insinuations of any tension in the party over the alleged misunderstanding. Party elders are, however, to meet within days to deliberate on outstanding issues affecting the party notably the unresolved congresses, zoning of national party offices and permutations on the presidential candidate of the party.

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Supporters of the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti clashed on Monday in Ado-Ekiti over alleged failed plan to destroy an electronic bill board.

The bill board, erected near the Ekiti State Government House in Fajuyi Memorial Park, was said to have been attacked by thugs loyal to the PDPs governorship candidate, Mr. Ayo Fayose.

A Hilux patrol vehicle belonging to the Peace Corps was vandalised by the thugs.

Security men quickly arrived at the scene to bring the situation under control but not without resistance from some thugs loyal to the APC.

An eyewitness said a man identified as a member of the PDP was abducted in the presence of the security men to an unknown location.

The eyewitness said, The man was on a motorcycle when he was arrested by the thugs. He kept shouting that he was just returning to Ado-Ekiti to pay his childs school fees but the thugs did not listen to him. He begged them to spare his life but that didnt make them to change their mind.

The only reason they arrested him was because one of the APC boys said he sighted him at Spotless Hotel belonging to Ayo Fayose; they did not even care to verify the claim by the thug.

The fight came two days after supporters of Labour Party and the APC clashed in Ikere-Ekiti when the governorship candidate of the LP, Opeyemi Bamidele, and Ondo Governor, Olusegun Mimiko held a campaign rally.

The Mondays clash took place at the timethe states chairman of the APC, Mr. Jide Awe, was addressing journalists in Ado-Ekiti where he accusedthe police and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps of complicity in the wave of attacks fast spreading in Ekiti.

He cited the attack on Commissioner of Tourism, Mrs. Ronke Okusanya, by PDP thugs at a police station in Efon-Alaye as an example of police complicity.

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