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The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress Governors Forum, Rochas Okorocha, has urged the party to stop the culture of imposition of candidates to move ahead of the competition.

Okorocha said this in his remarks at the 1st Progressive Governors-Legislative-Civil Society Roundtable, with the theme: Improving Governance through transparent budgeting, accountability and effective public financial management, in Abuja, on Monday.

The Imo State governor, who said he was aligning himself to comments made by a previous speaker, said the 2015 general election was for the APC to win or lose.

According to him, the outcome of the recent opinion polls conducted by APCs foreign consultant was a true reflection of what was on ground.

He noted that for the APC to form government in 2015, it must do things differently.

Okorocha said, Our victory is in our hands it is left for us to make it or mar it, but I believe we can make it. I believe that this issue of imposition of candidates must stop in APC and that is the only way.

The masses know us better, when they say this is the candidate that can win the election he is the candidate let there be liberal democracy.

Turning to the theme of the gathering, he said, if we keep doing the same old things, the same old way, we will get the very same results.

According to him, most of the time, our budgetary system from conception to execution was faulty hence the need for change.

Earlier in his remarks, Senator Olusola Adeyeye, said when APC forms government at the federal level, it will reintroduce tolls along major highways to generate the required revenue to maintain the roads.

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APC must stop imposition of candidates to succeed -Okorocha

The All Progressives Congress has called 50 witnesses to testify over the allegation of electoral malpractice during the November 16, 17 and 30, 2013 governorship election in Anambra State.

Chief Olarotimi Akeredolu (SAN), counsel for APC and the governorship candidate of the party, Sen. Chris Ngige, announced this in Awka on Tuesday during proceedings at the Anambra Election Petitions Tribunal.

Akeredolu said the figure was pruned down from 101 to enable speedy trial and determination of the petition.

At the resumed sitting, Akeredolu urged the Justice Ishaq Bello-led tribunal to allow him time to submit additional documents before calling witnesses.

They included forms EC8A results for Idemili South, Aguata and Awka North local council areas as well as list of ad hoc staff for Aguata council.

However, the tribunal refused to admit as evidence extracts from polling units 004, Eri primary school, Otuocha in Anambra East council area following objections by counsel to Gov Willie Obiano and APGA.

Mr Onyechi Ikpeazu (SAN) and Mr Osita Nnadi (SAN) objected to the request on the grounds that it formed the central part of the dispute and that it ought to come in when a witness was being cross-examined.

They argued that the document related to the issue of multiple registrations which had already been struck out by the tribunal earlier.

According to Ikpeazu, It is not only inadmissible based on the state of the pleadings for now.

It is also equally a contested document which due process needs to be made.

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Governor Rochas Okorocha | credits: File copy

The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress Governors Forum, Rochas Okorocha, has urged the party to stop the culture of imposition of candidates in order to move ahead of the competition.

Okorocha said this in his remarks at the 1st Progressive Governors-Legislative-Civil Society Roundtable in Abuja, on Monday.

The roundtable was tagged Improving Governance through transparent budgeting, accountability and effective public financial management. The Imo State governor, who said he was aligning himself to comments made by a previous speaker, said the 2015 general election was for the APC to win or lose.

According to him, the outcome of the recent opinion polls conducted by APCs foreign consultant is a true reflection of what is on ground, noting that for the APC to form the government in 2015, it must do things differently.

Okorocha said, Our victory is in our hands, it is left for us to make it or mar it but I believe we can make it. I believe that this issue of imposition of candidates must stop in APC and that is the only way.

The masses know us better, when they say this is the candidate that can win the election he is the candidate let there be liberal democracy.

If we keep doing the same old things the same old way, we will get the very same results.

Senator Olusola Adeyeye, at the forum, said when the APC formed the government at the federal level, it would reintroduce tolls along major highways to generate the required revenue to maintain the roads.

He explained that just as the government had responsibility to the people, the people equally had civic responsibilities to perform.

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has dared the PDP to urgently make available to the Nigerian public any evidence of the opposition's alleged involvement in the ongoing Boko Haram insurgency or forever shut up

"We have absolutely no hand in this insurgency, and we dare anyone with contrary information to publish such today. It is trite that he who alleges must prove," the party said in a statement issued in Lagos on Friday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.

It said that In the absence of any evidence, Nigerians will have no choice but to conclude that the relentless finger-pointing by the PDP/Presidency is a ploy to divert attention from those who are actually behind this insurgency, those who see it as a trump card to 2015 and those who have been benefitting massively from the huge funds being allocated to security.

APC said the latest accusation by the PDP is being made within the framework of its plan to frame up the opposition and clamp down on its leaders ahead of the 2015 general elections, having realized that it (PDP) cannot possibly win the 2015 elections due to its appalling record of failure.

"Otherwise, how can the PDP-led federal government claim to have 'evidence of meetings held outside the shores of the country' to violently overthrow the government of President Jonathan, and yet refuse to make such evidence public or arrest and try those involved? Or is it only the riotous spokesman of the ruling party who has the evidence?" the party queried.

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has advised President Goodluck Jonathan, as the father of the nation and commander-in-chief of the armed forces, not to be afraid to visit any part of the country, especially Yobe State which suffered a massive attack by insurgents last month.

In a statement issued in Lagos yesterday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohanmed, the party reminded the President that he had not yet visited Yobe State one month after the dastardly killing of many schoolchildren in the state, to commiserate with the government and the bereaved families.

APC noted that since the president's planned return from his foreign trip on Tuesday coincides with one month of the killings, he take the opportunity of the timing and fly straight to Yobe to sympathise with the victims.

APC reminded the president that since the killings, he has hosted a wasteful centennial celebration, travelled across Nigeria to illegally kick-start his campaign for the 2015 elections and journeyed to Namibia, Italy and The Netherlands, in a needless junketing that belies the massive security problems facing the country.

It said: "Mr President, charity begins at home. You cannot be engaging in photo-ops abroad when your country is burning," he said.

"In this case, President Jonathan's pointed avoidance of Yobe, where the death of innocent school children highlights the senseless nature of the Boko Haram insurgency, is a morale booster of sorts to the cowards who murdered those children.

"If however the President has any reason why he does not want to visit the scene of the gruesome murders to commiserate with the bereaved families, he should tell Nigerians who have continued to wonder why he has been avoiding the state."

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