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Large turnout of party members characterised the All Progressives Congress ward congresses in Edo on Tuesday, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.

NAN correspondent who monitored the exercise in Benin reports that most of the party members were seen at the various wards as early as 8 a.m.

Officials designated to conduct congresses were, however, not seen at their duty posts as at 10 am.

NAN also observed that security personnel were not seen at most polling units visited.

A party chieftain at Ikpoba-Okha, who pleaded anonymity, attributed the delay in arrival of the officials and materials to harmonised position taken by the party on ward executives across the state.

I can rightly tell you that most ward executives of the party have been harmonised by the party.

This was achieved after series of meetings involving the party chieftains and the governor of the state.

This issue of harmonisation became necessary to avoid rancour or crisis in the party, he stated.

NAN recalls that APC ward congresses were earlier scheduled to take place in the 192 wards of the state last Saturday.

The party congresses at the local government have been fixed for April 12 to be followed by that of the on April 23 respectively.

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The All Progressives Congress on Sunday said it has set a target to produce the next governor of Enugu State come 2015.

The target, it said, was set following the conclusion of its ward congresses across the 260 wards in the state last Saturday.

According to Chairman of the Congress Committee, Mr. Uche Onyeagocha, the APC was not only prepared to make an impact in Enugu State in 2015, but had set a target to take over the Government House.

Onyeagocha, a former House of Representatives member, said it was wrong for anybody to assume that the party had no ground in the state.

He told journalists that the party has seasoned politicians who have contested elections at the national, state and local government levels, but lost because security agencies aided PDP to rig the elections.

He said, We have people like Okechukwu Ideke. We have people like General Joseph Okoloagu. We have people like Osita Okechukwu. These are people who have contested several elections but only lost because they were rigged out and we have many more who are still coming in, and have obtained membership cards.

It would be wrong of anybody to run away with the conclusion that APC has no membership in the South-East. We do. The only difference is that we have not taken over power and that is what we intend to do. Our target is not to make an impact. Our target is to park to Lions Building Enugu.

He also stated that APC was aimsto have many of its members in the National Assembly, because all the PDP federal lawmakers from the South-East could hardly be located in any of the two chambers of the National Assembly.

He said, Many of them are lost in the crowd. By the time APC takes its place in the National Assembly, you will see proper representation of Ndigbo at the National level.

Onyeagocha described last Saturdays APC ward congresses in Enugu State as very successful. He said, Although they were contentious in some areas where there were contests, efforts were being made to harmonise.

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Former Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu | credits: File copy

There are strong indications that the All Progressives Congress will present a Christian candidate for the 2015 governorship election in Lagos State.

SUNDAY PUNCH learnt that a national leader of the APC and former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, may be backing a governorship aspirant in the state.

Tinubu was said to have introduced a former Permanent Secretary/Accountant-General of the Lagos State Government, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode to the state local government chairmen as his choice aspirant at a meeting in Lagos penultimate week.

The opposition party has been in government in Lagos since the current democratic dispensation began in 1999 and all the governors have been Muslims.

A leader of party, who was privy to events at the meeting, told SUNDAY PUNCH in confidence on Friday that Tinubu allegedly nominated Ambode for the race.

The source said, His name is Akinwunmi Ambode; he was a former Accountant-General. He has been chosen. The whole idea is that if they should put a Christian governor, it should be enough.

It is very bad thing (imposition) and it is going to destroy the APC, if they are not careful.

He further said a member of the House of Representatives and Chairman, House Committee on Diaspora Affairs, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, might be chosen as Ambodes running mate.

The Publicity Secretary, APC, Lagos State, Mr. Joe Igbokwe, however, denied knowledge of the development. He told our correspondent on Friday that the opportunity was still open to all aspirants in the party.

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George Will said Friday on Special Report with Bret Baierthat the resignation of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich over his financial support of Californias anti-gay marriage law was evidence, redundant evidence, that progressives are for diversity in everything but thought.

Eich was promoted in March to head the company, which is the creator of the web browser Firefox. However his $1,000 donation to the campaign to pass Proposition 8, which outlawed same-sex marriage in California, drew outrage from some Mozilla employees. It also led to the departure of three of the companys six board members and sparked a boycott by a popular dating website.

Amid the firestorm, Eich resigned after just two weeks on the job, saying in a statement that under the present circumstances, I cannot be an effective leader.

Will, a syndicated columnist and Fox News contributor, said that Eichs decision to step down was illustrative of a new phenomenon in politics, saying no one likes sore losers, but now we have sore winners.

The gay rights movement is winning, particularly with regard to same sex marriage, with a speed and breadth that simply takes your breath away," he said. "In Oklahoma, in Utah, and elsewhere. Yet, unsatisfied with victory, they seem to want to stamp out and punish people for their previous views.

Will drew a comparison between the gay marriage debate and another hot topic in politics: campaign finance reform.

The people who want to reform our finances and increase government control over political speech and spending say well, everyone surely can be in favor of full disclosure of campaign contributions. This case is an example of why some of us who used to be for full disclosure no longer are, said Will. The people advocating full disclosure of campaign contribution say, "we just want voters to make an informed choice." That's not what they're doing at all. They really want to enable themselves to mount punitive campaigns and deter people and to chill political speech.

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The All Progressives Congress in Adamawa State has postponed Saturdays ward congress of the party due to late arrival of materials.

The Interim Committee Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Salihu Baba-Ahmed, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Yola on Saturday.

Materials were brought yesterday (Friday) which is late. We have scheduled a meeting of stakeholders by 4pm today to fix a new date for the congress.

I want to use this opportunity to further urge our party members to continue to bear with us and remain calm as everything possible will be done to ensure hitch free exercise, Baba-Ahmed said.

A former Chairman of defunct CPC, Alhaji Ibrahim Waziri, who spoke on the development, said that with late arrival of materials, the congress was not feasible.

Waziri said this was also because the people that paid for forms to participate in the congress were yet to obtain the forms.

Those that paid for forms were yet to obtain the forms. We need about two to three days to enable them obtain the forms, fill and return them.

We will use the meeting of stakeholders today to fix an appropriate date for the congress, he said.

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