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Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed | credits: File copy

The All Progressives Congress on Monday hailed the reported suspension of a planned rally by the Peoples Democratic Party, in Yola, Adamawa State, on Tuesday.

The APC said the decision taken by the ruling party, which was in line with the prevailing mood of the nation, especially the abduction of over 200 schoolgirl in Borno State, was a positive sign.

Interim National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said in a statement released in Lagos that the suspension was the very right decision to take under the circumstance.

According to the APC, the suspension of the rally has shown that President Goodluck Jonathan is beginning to hearken to the voices of his compatriots on important national issues.

The statement partly read, As we said in a statement we issued on April 24, it smacks of insensitivity, inhumanity and indecency for our President and other leaders to be engaged in any celebratory venture when we do not yet know the fate of the schoolgirls who were abducted from their school and taken to an unknown destination.

We also said the President should not repeat the same mistake he made by flying to Kano to dance at a political rally even as the smoke was yet to clear from the scene of the Nyanya bus park bombing. We are delighted that good sense has prevailed this time.

The party also said while the President does not have to shut down the government, he must continue to shun all celebratory public outings until all the schoolgirls have been safely reunited with their families.

In response, the PDP said it was high time the opposition party stopped taking credit for well thought out decisions made by the President.

Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Abdullahi Jalo, told The PUNCH in a telephone interview in Abuja that no one envisaged that such an ugly situation was going to take place. As such, the issue of the opposition party advising the President not to go to Yola did not arise.

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The All Progressives Congress on Monday commiserated with Vice President Namadi Sambo on the death of his younger brother, Capt. Yusuf Sambo, in a road crash in Abuja.

The condolence was expressed in a statement issued in Lagos by the partys Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.

The statement said that the party expressed shock and sadness at the death of such a vibrant personality in such a tragic circumstance.

Death is never easy to accept and when it is so unexpected, it adds to the grief.

But the sweet memories and good deeds of the departed will always be a balm to sooth the indescribable pain of death.

We sincerely sympathise with the Vice President, the immediate family of the departed as well as his extended family.

We pray that God will strengthen and comfort them all in this difficult time, it said.

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The All Progressives Congress has hailed the reported suspensionof the PDP rally scheduled for Adamawa State on Tuesday, in line withthe prevailing mood of the nation, especially the abduction of over200 school children in Borno State.

In a statement issued in Lagos on Monday by its Interim NationalPublicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party called thesuspension the very right decision to take under the circumstance.

It said the suspension of the rally has shown that President GoodluckJonathan is beginning to hearken to the voices of his compatriots onimportant national issues.

As we said in a statement we issued on April 24, it smacks ofinsensitivity, inhumanity and indecency for our President and otherleaders to be engaged in any celebratory venture when we do not yetknow the fate of the school girls who were abducted from their schooland taken to an unknown destination.

We also said the President should not repeat the same mistake hemade by flying to Kano to dance at a political rally even as the smokewas yet to clear from the scene of the Nyanya bus park bombing. We are delighted that good sense has prevailed this time, it said.

The party said while the President does not have to shut down thegovernment, he must continue to shun all celebratory public outingsuntil all the school girls have been safely reunited with their families.

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Asiwaju Bola Tinubu | credits: File copy

The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress says the call by the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party for the arrest of the national leader of the APC, Bola Tinubu, is mischievous.

The APC added that since Tinubu called for the roasting of those who would rig the coming governorship election in Ekiti and Osun states, the PDPs reaction showed that it was defending the continued subjection of elections in Nigeria to manipulation and rigging.

In a statement by the Lagos State Publicity Secretary of the APC, Joe Igbokwe, the party wondered why the PDP always grew paranoid whenever the issue of punishment for election riggers cropped up.

Igbokwe said the Lagos PDP, by its reaction, was also publicising the readiness of the party to continue to tow the line of electoral criminality through shamelessly stealing every election and subjecting the country to the scourge of corrupt unelected leadership.

He said, We are not surprised that it is the PDP that has come in defence of election rigging because we know the history of the party.

That the state chapter of a party that has been ruling the country for the past 15 years can come out and make an endorsement of election rigging as the call for Tinubus arrest for warning against election rigging portends shows that Nigerians have not witnessed the last of the PDPs bizarre electoral frauds.

We therefore warn Nigerians to be on their guards as the Ekiti and Osun governorship elections approach and the 2015 elections draw nearer.

Igbokwe said the state of the country with wrecked infrastructure, corruption, governmental incompetence and embarrassing cluelessness, general state of insecurity and hopelessness were products of electoral fraud.

The Lagos APC spokesman disagreed with the state PDP that Tinubus statement was capable of worsening the security situation in the country.

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BELGRADE -- The ruling Serb Progressives (SNS) on Sunday accused the opposition Democratic Party (DS) of "using the national broadcasting service (RST) for smear attacks."

These "attacks" are launched against the party and its leader Aleksandar Vui, said a statement, and with the goal of "humiliating the new government and the reputation of Vui."

"The SNS is not complaining about anything, but we wish to inform citizens that the RTS, instead of being a public service of all citizens, serves as a daily ground for launching dirty attacks on SNS President Aleksandar Vui."

The opposition Democrats (DS) then issued a statement of their own, saying that the accusations were "incredible", considering that for the past two years, the RTS audience "could only watch a promotion of the Serbian government, the SNS, and Vui himself."

The DS added that the Progressives were "continuing their fight against imaginary enemies," and that they, despite achieving absolute power, "still wish to control the media."

Reacting to this, the SNS issued another release, saying that the DS, "in cooperation with some people employed by the RTS," was using the public service to attack Vui and his party, while DS leader Dragan ilas "could not refrain from commenting, as for years he has been known for exerting a direct influence on the media's editorial policy."

In separate releases, the Journalists' Association of Serbia (UNS) and the Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia (NUNS) voiced their concern over the SNS statement, saying that the party criticized the RTS's editorial policy without providing any concrete objections or examples.

The two associations assessed that the ruling party's move was "a classic example of pressure against the RTS and media freedoms, and intimidation of journalists."

BELGRADE -- Dragan ilas said in parliament on Sunday that Aleksandar Vui did not present a new, but rather "a reshuffled government."

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