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WASHINGTON Senate Republicans on Wednesday slammed President Obama's response to Russian aggression as timid and insufficient, and offered an alternative that would impose sanctions on banking and energy sectors and provide weapons to Ukraine.

In an election-year broadside against administration policy, eight Republicans led by GOP Leader Mitch McConnell unveiled a package of penalties on Russians, assistance for NATO and exportation of U.S. natural gas. The senators said they hoped to secure Democratic support, and at a minimum, force the White House to develop a cohesive strategy rather than its ad hoc response.

"Without being overly partisan," McConnell, who faces re-election this year, said of the administration, "I'm deeply disappointed with the tepid response to Russian aggression."

The U.S. and the European Union imposed new sanctions against government officials in Moscow and some businesses this week, the latest round of penalties in response to Russia's annexation of Crimea and the increasing unrest in eastern Ukraine.

In the latest development, Ukraine's acting president, Oleksandr Turchynov, said the country's police and security forces are helpless to quell unrest in two eastern regions bordering Russia, and in some cases are cooperating with pro-Russian gunmen who have seized government buildings and taken hostages.

Russia has been emboldened, placing tens of thousands of troops near the border with Ukraine and increasing fears in Ukraine of an invasion.

At a Capitol Hill news conference, McConnell, Sen. Bob Corker, the top Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, and a half dozen other Republicans assailed the administration's actions and cast them as ineffective as the U.S. response to Syria and Libya.

"Insufficient, tepid, too timid," said Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H.

"The president has an uncanny ability of underestimating every crisis and being late," said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.

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The just-concluded state congress of the All Progressives Congress in Akwa Ibom State has left the party more fragmented than before, writes ETIM EKPIMAH

These are not the best of times for the Akwa Ibom State chapter of the opposition All Progressives Congress.

The just-concluded state congress of the party has rekindled old rivalries among leaders of the four legacy parties which came together to form the APC.

Three, out of the four parties, are accusing the members of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria of hijacking the process.

Members of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change, All Nigeria Peoples Party and the All Progressive Grand Alliance are the ones on the offensive.

In February, some members of the state chapter of the party threatened to defect in their numbers if the national headquarters did not intervene in the simmering crisis.

The bone of contention is the alleged hijack of registration materials by members of the defunct ACN in Uyo and its environs.

They also accused the South-South chairman of the APC, Mr. Emeka Ekwauju, of providing a conducive atmosphere for this to happen.

This, they argued, was done to disenfranchise members of the CPC, ANPP and APGA, who are equal partners in the merger.

A former governorship aspirant of APGA in the state, Mr. David Ekanem, said two chapter chairmen were manhandled by thugs and security agents at the Silver Spring Hotel, venue of the collection of registration materials.

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