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A faction of the All Progressives Congress in Edo State on Monday officially declared their membership of the Peoples Democratic Party, after months of intrigues and agitations within the state APC.

The group, led by a former Secretary to the State Government under the former Governor Lucky Igbinedion administration, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, publicly declared their membership of the PDP in Benin, the Edo State capital.

The group had recently announced their resignation from the APC following a seven-day ultimatum given to the state governor, Adams Oshiomole, to nullify the results of the partys congresses.

Speaking at the official declaration of their membership of the PDP, Ize-Iyamu said the defection became necessary to save the political life of the state from the selfish resolve of desperate individuals to dominate the political system.

He assured his supporters that the PDP would sweep the polls in Edo in 2016.

According to a member of the break-away group and former chairman of the Action Congress of Nigeria in Edo, Tony Omoaghe, the group had convened a meeting of stakeholders who were then members of the APC in the state, where issues bothering on flawed membership registration exercise as well as the fractured ward and local government congresses conducted by the party in the state were discussed.

Omoaghe lamented that genuine efforts were not made by Oshiomhole to intervene and accede to the demands of the group.

Rather than focus on the issues, so much energy and state resources were dissipated in blackmailing and attempting to induce pockets of the aggrieved to submission. This tactics only went to prove that indeed, all was not well with the party we all laboured to build, he said.

Reacting to the development, the Interim State Publicity Secretary of the APC, Godwin Erhahon, described the defected members as seasonal birds who have parted to meet again.

I congratulate Comrade Oshiomhole for the major relief and assure the people of Edo that they stand to benefit from the exit of these people. We wish them well, he said.

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Edo APC members join PDP

The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State has opened its Obio/Akpor Local Government Area secretariat.

Chairman of the APC in the state, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, said the secretariat in Obio/Akpor would ensure victory for the party in the area which is also the Local Government Area of the Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike of the Peoples Democratic Party.

He said,When you have the most brilliant governor in Nigeria from Ikwerre, the most courageous governor in Nigeria from Ikwerre and then we have somebody who is serving the party also having his wife from Ikwerre, what do you think? That means that Ikwerre have everything.

The official opening took place at the weekend amidst loud encomiums on the Rivers State Governor and Chairman of Nigeria Governors Forum, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi for his footprints of development and positive growth in the state.

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APC opens secretariat in Obio/Akpor

The All Progressives Congress in Niger State has described last weeks cabinet reshuffle by the state governor, Babangida Aliyu, as an outright display of insensitivity to the suffering of the people by the Peoples Democratic Party-led government.

APC in a statement issued on Sunday in Minna by its state Publicity Secretary, Mr. Jonathan Vatsa, said the exercise as an action aimed at securing the political interest of the governor and not to serve the people.

According to him, the recent cabinet reshuffle was mere waste of government time and resources because it was mere recycling of the same old hands to serve the governors political ambition in 2015, it said.

Vatsa said it had become obvious that the PDP under Governor Aliyu in the state was tactically encouraging corruption and disorder.

When the PDP administration of Babangida Aliyu came on board, it promised not to work with thieves and corrupt officers of the preceding Kure administration in the state. But we see today that he has not only included the members of Kures administration in his government but has embarked on outright financial recklessness and insensitivity to the plight of the common man in the state, it said.

He said the people of the state were wallowing in poverty while civil servants remained grossly under paid

This deception must stop, we urge the good people of Niger State not to be deceived by the cosmetics of the government which beauty is in the rhetoric of government pronouncement with no practical achievements to show for it, it said.

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Niger cabinet reshuffle shows insensitivity of PDP -APC

The All Progressives Congress has won all the chairmanship and councillorship seats in Saturdays council polls in Kano state.

This is contained in a statement signed by Chairman of Kano State Independent Electoral Commission, Dr. Sani Malumfashi, on Sunday in Kano.

The election has been largely successful and peaceful and APC won all the 44 local government chairmanship and the 484 councillorship posts in the state as officially declared by returning officers at the various levels, it disclosed.

The two-paragraph statement thanked the state government, politicians as well as residents for the support given KANSIEC before and during the election.

News Agency of Nigeria reports that 19 parties contested the election although only the APC and the Peoples Democraic Party contested all positions.

Meanwhile, the PDP in Kano State has rejected the outcome of the local government election.

Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, a former governor and chieftain of PDP in the state announced the rejection on Sunday while addressing newsmen in Kano.

Shekarau said that the state electoral body failed to conduct a free and fair poll.

He said his party had evidence of electoral malpractices during the exercise.

He said that the PDP would go to the court to defend the principles of democracy as enshrined in the constitution.

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APC wins all seats in Kano council polls

President Goodluck Jonathan | credits: File photo

The All Progressives Congress on Sunday said by failing to visit Chibok, Borno State, where over 200 schoolgirls were abducted by Boko Haram since April 14, President Goodluck Jonathan had betrayed Nigerians who voted him into office.

The party said the cancellation of the allegedly planned presidential visit to Chibok was indicative of the Jonathan administrations policy flip-flop in the fight against Boko Haram.

In a statement in Lagos, its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, APC said the Jonathan administration had bungled the fight against the sect and exhibited cluelessness in handling the abduction of the schoolgirls.

The party said, With his utterances and actions or inaction, President Jonathan has deepened the pains of the parents and guardians of the girls, and indeed that of the whole nation, when he should have been the consoler-in-chief at such a difficult time for a nation he leads.

A President and Commander-in-Chief, who is afraid to visit any part of his country, has betrayed the very people who voted him into office. In the case of Chibok, he has shown that the residents of the town should not expect to be seen as compatriots by their own President; hence they are on their own.

APC accused Jonathans administration of lying to Nigerians by saying the President never planned to visit Chibok, even when it was widely reported that the Presidents advance team had landed in Borno State.

The party described the Presidents explanation that he did not go to Chibok because the girls were not being held there as pedestrian.

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Aborted Chibok trip: Jonathan betrayed Nigerians, says APC