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  • #EkitiDecides2018: APC wins Fayose’s local government

    #EkitiDecides2018: APC wins Fayose’s local government

    BREAKING: Fayemi wins Ekiti gubernatorial election [See Full results]

    The candidate of the All progressives Congress (APC) in the ongoing Ekiti State election has emerged victorious in Irepodun-Ifelodun Local Government Area.

    Kayode Fayemi of the APC polled 13,869 votes in the local government of the outgoing governor, Ayodele Fayose. The PDP had 11,456 votes.

    Even though the PDP won in Mr Fayose’s polling unit and ward, the votes in other wards were not enough to secure victory for his party in his local government.

    The local government has 11 wards. Results from each ward was collated at the headquarters of INEC situated in Igede.

    A total of 66,162 electorates are registered in the local government while 27,306 were accredited.

    Of the 27,211 votes cast, 25,849 were valid while 1362 were rejected.

    Only party agents of APC and PDP present at the centre signed the result at 11:06p.m.

  • 2019: Shehu Sani, other Kaduna senators clear air on alleged defection from APC

    Sen. Shehu Sani (APC-Kaduna) says he is yet to defect from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to any other party.

    Sani made this known in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja on Friday.

    He said that consultations were still ongoing with regard to the future of the party.

    “I am yet to defect or decamp or migrate from the APC to any other party.

    “However, discussions and consultations are ongoing as regard to our future in the Party.

    “Decision will be taken in a matter of week or two whether to remain in the party or migrate.

    “When the time comes, I will make a formal announcement on the floor of the Senate, my Facebook and Twitter handle,” he said.

    There were reports earlier on Friday, claiming that Sani and Sen. Suleiman Hunkuyi (APC-Kaduna) had left the APC.

    The report was credited to the Hunkuyi-led faction of the APC.

    The group, which is said to be known as APC Akida, purportedly made the statement in Kaduna.

    Meanwhile, Sani had said via his Facebook handle that “We the persecuted are on Exodus, riding on horses, chariots and caravans, departing Pharaoh Thutmose’s Egypt.

    “We are now at the coast of the Red Sea, about to leave the land of cruelty and injustice.”

    The lawmaker has been having running battle with his state Governor, Nasir El-rufai, who also belongs to the APC.

    There are indications that Sani is nursing the idea of picking a governorship ticket for the 2019 election, a decision which he claimed had pitched him against the governor among other things.

  • 2019: Shehu Sani’s group dumps APC

    A faction of the All Progressive Congress known as APC Akida and members of APC Restoration group in Kaduna state on Friday dumped the ruling party.

    According to the two groups, they decided to dump APC because the party had failed to meet the expectations of millions of Nigerians who voted for the party.

    The two groups disclosed this at a joint news briefing in Kaduna under the leadership of Mataimaki Maiyashi for Akida group and Jaafaru Ibrahim for Restoration.

    The groups did not mention the new party they will be joining but said serious consultation was ongoing with political parties that share their values.

    According to Maiyashi, they were satisfied with the position to dump APC because the party is incapable of accommodating criticism.

    Maiyashi explained further that the joint press conference was the culmination of extensive reviews and consultations over the state of the APC in Kaduna State as well as in the nation.

    Shehu Sani, the senator representing Kaduna Central is a member of the Akida faction and has always threatened to dump the party. But he was not at the press conference.

    “Members of our two groups have decided to leave the APC because it is incapable of accommodating and responding to well-meaning dissent, criticism and demands for inclusiveness and internal democracy,” Maiyashi said.

    “It has not lived up to the expectations of the millions of people who laboured to put in power,as well as Nigerian who expected that it will usher in genuine change.

    “We are hereby advising all our teeming members to formalize their withdrawal from the APC. We are engaged in serious discussions with parties which share our value and principles toward political collaboration that best suits our interests.

    “In due course, we will make public the outcome of these discussions. We want to commend the resilience and commitment of our members in the face of institutionalized exclusion, marginalization and abuse. We urge them all to keep faith,” he said.

    The chief of staff to senate president Bukola Saraki, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, who is also a member of the Akida group, dumped APC weeks ago.

  • Why Buhari ordered deployment of 30,000 policemen to Ekiti State – APC

    Why Buhari ordered deployment of 30,000 policemen to Ekiti State – APC

    The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has defended the deployment of 30,000 police officers to monitor the governorship election scheduled to hold on Saturday, July 14 in the state.

    The ruling party explained that the decision was necessary to ensure peace and order during the highly tensed poll.

    The party stated its position in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Malam Bolaji Abudullahi, in Abuja on Thursday.

    The party’s position was in response to claims by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that the policemen were deployed to harass its supporters to favour APC’s Governorship candidate, Dr Kayode Fayemi

    “As usual with elections, extra security deployment is routine to keep the peace for credible and transparent elections.

    “With PDP’s claim in its press statement, it is obvious that its leadership does not have the facts of the actual events in Ekiti State or it is deliberately attempting to divert public attention,” APC stated.

    It described the attitude of Gov. Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti on Wednesday as comical, saying it was clearly contrived to give the public impression that he was being persecuted.

    “Somehow, Fayose has contrived to make this election about himself but it is not: the contest is between Dr Fayemi and the professor that has continued to hide behind Fayose’s fingers.

    “What is clear to every voter in Ekiti is that to vote for this professor is to hand Fayose a third term, given their horrid experience with him, they have wisely rejected them both,” APC stated.

    According to the party, PDP in Ekiti has read the hand-writing on the wall and knows that it has lost the election and is only saving face with wild allegations.

    The party added that the story of how Fayose used security agencies to manipulate the last election was still fresh in the memory of the people of Ekiti.

    “Unfortunately for him, he has no such opportunity this time, winning a free and fair election is a strange territory to him and that’s why he is looking stranded.

    “It is therefore, mischievous of PDP to continue to claim that the police assaulted Fayose on Wednesday after Fayose himself has apologised to the police authorities for lying against their officers,” APC said.

    It maintained that the ultimate decision about who would govern Ekiti was with the people , which they would make on the principle of one man one vote.

  • Panic as APC leader falls from two-storey building, dies

    Panic as APC leader falls from two-storey building, dies

    A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bayelsa State chapter, Chief Lionel Jonathan-Omo, is dead.

    Jonathan-Omo, the Deputy Campaign Director General of Sylva/Igiri Campaign Organisation during the 2016 governorship election in the state reportedly had a fatal fall from the balcony of his two-storey building in his country home in Beleu-Pogo in Ogbolomabiri, Nembe Local Government Area of the state.

    He was said to be relaxing on the balcony when he started feeling dizzy. He was trying to get up with the aid of a pillar close to him when he fell off the two-storey building.

    Close associates revealed that the fatal fall from the balcony was discovered by his wife after hearing the sound from the kitchen.

    He was immediately rushed to a hospital in the state where doctors were said to have advised that he be taken to the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital in Rivers State.

    It was learnt that the deceased was operated upon when he was rushed to the UPTH but did not survive the operation.

    A member of the Nembe Council of Chiefs and the State Chairman of the Civil Liberties Organisation, Chief Nengi James, said the death of Jonathan-Omo, a former Law Lecturer at Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt, had thrown the Nembe Kingdom into mourning.

    He said the news of his death came as a shock, describing the late Jonathan-Omo as a colossus that had contributed greatly to the Nembe Kingdom and the state as a whole.

    Reacting to the development, the APC described the death of Jonathan-Omo as an “indescribable loss” of a wonderful ally at a time his experience and energy were most needed.

    In a statement in Yenagoa on Thursday by the State Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mr Doifie Buokoribo, the party said Jonathan-Omo, who died on Thursday was a forthright politician, and an illustrious son of Bayelsa State and the Ijaw nation who partook in popular activities to better the lives of his people.

    Buokoribo said, “Jonathan-Omo broke his limbs in a fall and fought bravely for his life at a private hospital in Port Harcourt to recover from the injuries he sustained. He never survived them.

    “The chief died on Thursday after an unsuccessful operation. All of us had hoped that Jonathan-Omo would recover from his injuries and get on with his life, particularly, at this time of intense political activities in our state and country when his experience and wisdom are seriously needed.

    “Lionel Jonathan-Omo, who is from Nembe, trained as a lawyer and taught Law at the Rivers State University of Science and Technology for several years. He was a former commissioner in Bayelsa State.

    “He was also a delegate representing the state at the 2005 National Political Reform Conference. Until his death, he was a member of the APC. During the 2015-2016 governorship elections, he was the Deputy Director General of the Sylva/Igiri Campaign Organisation.

  • 2019: Labour, ADP, deny membership of PDP’s coalition against Buhari, APC

    The Labour Party (LP) has distanced itself from the coalition of political parties which recently came together in an attempt to oust the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2019.

    Dr Mike Omotosho, National Chairman of the party said this while addressing newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja.

    According to him, the Labour Party is not part of any coalition with any group.

    He said that the leadership of the party has not been consulted, neither has there been any formal meeting or agreement between the party and any other political party in Nigeria in that respect.

    “The Labour Party is not only a political party but a political movement, guided by its ethics, values, principles and social ideology, where all actions are taken in consideration of due process.

    “If there was any need for the party to join any coalition, the consent and the approval of the National Working Committee (NWC) and the National Executive Council (NEC) would have been sought before such decision is taken.

    “It is an undisputable fact that the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and its allies, the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the civil society, are the owners of the Party.

    “Such a vital decision to join a coalition cannot be effected without the approvals of their respective governmental organs.

    “As it stands now, the NWC, NEC, nor NLC are aware or privy to this crocket coalition engagement, ’’he said.

    He, however, called on Nigerians to disregard all allusions to the inclusion of the Labour Party and those of the NLC & TUC, as members of any collation.

    Omotosho added that the commitment of the Labour Party to the coalition is, therefore, the fiery imaginations and fictions of a few recalcitrant members.

    According to him, this borne out of their hurriedness to mortgage the Party for their selfish political end.

    “We hereby dissociate our great party, the Labour Party, from such a gathering, calculated to further throw the political atmosphere of Nigeria into more heinous confusion.

    “The vision and mission of this coalition is not yet clear to Labour Party,” he said.

    “We therefore at this moment cannot subject the party to an alliance whose objectives and goals is currently not understood,” he added.

    Meanwhile, the Action Democratic Party (ADP) also disassociated itself from the coalition.

    National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Sani Yabagi made the party’s position known at a news conference on Wednesday in Abuja.

    “You will recall that on July 9, the PDP, in conjunction with about 34 other political parties signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to field a common presidential candidate for the 2019 general elections, after forming the CUPP.

    “The parties are also to collaborate in several other areas to ensure that the All Progressives Congress (APC) -led Federal Government is defeated in the coming elections.

    “Let me say here for the avoidance of doubt that we are not part of the coalition,” he said.

    Yabagi added that his party, however, believed that the time had come for a generational shift in leadership, but not by putting old wine in new bottles.

    This, according to the ADP national chairman, is what the PDP- led coalition represented.

    He recalled that similar coalition was formed in 2015, noting that it is time for Nigerians to wake up and resist another deceit by desperate and corrupt politicians ahead of 2019 general elections.

    He stressed that ADP was committed to building a new Nigeria that offers hope to all, and ensure transformation in health, education, infrastructure, security, and employment, among others.

    According to Yabagi, what Nigerians need at the moment, is a new direction, championed by true patriots, a process he said his party was determined to drive.

    “We shall be calling on like-minded patriotic, God fearing and credible Nigerians, to join the ADP-led coalition to rebuild Nigeria and make our nation the pride of Africa,” he said.

    He said that ADP was a child of necessity that would deepen democracy and good governance to establish the credible political platform that would rescue the country.

    He stressed that the party was not prepared to jettison its values and Constitutional provisions such as the use of direct primaries as against the often used corrupt delegate system by the other parties in the CUPP.

    “The ADP is also not in a hurry to hobnob with those who mismanaged Nigeria for sixteen years, and now re-grouping in an un-strategic haste to resume unprecedented loot of the nation’s treasury.

    “It is important to know that those who pushed Nigeria to the precipice are the drivers of the coalition and have nothing new to offer.

    “To collaborate with them is to sleep with strange bedfellows,”the ADP national chairman said.

    He maintained that the ADP was, however, not averse to any political coalition that could bring a positive overhaul of the Nigerian system, but stressed that such coalition must be done with true patriots.

    He added that such patriots must not be seen to be a part of the Nigerian problem.

    Yabagi added that in the desire to acquire power, the ADP would not compromise its basic principles and ideology. (NAN)

  • Breaking: Security operatives allegedly brutalize Gov. Fayose [PHOTOS]

    Breaking: Security operatives allegedly brutalize Gov. Fayose [PHOTOS]

    The road to the Ekiti State gubernatorial election is getting messier as Governor Ayodele Fayose has been severely brutalized by security operatives attached to the State’s government house.

    TheNewsGuru reports Governor Fayose had earlier raised alarm of heavy shooting in front of the government house before his manhandling by the security operative.

    According to a statement by the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), the security operatives acted at the dictate of the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led federal government.

    Fayose had shared photos of armed mobile policemen, he alleged were brought by the APC, barricading entrance to the government house.

    TheNewsGuru reports the Governor alleged that the plan was to prevent the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) victory walk slated for today.

    “But we will remain undeterred,” he said, adding “Power of God and the people will prevail over Federal Power”.

     

  • #EkitiDecides: Gov. Fayose raises alarm of heavy shooting at Govt House

    Governor Ayodele Fayose on Wednesday morning raised an alarm of heavy shooting in front of Ekiti state government house.

    He shared photos of armed mobile policemen, he alleged were brought by the All Progressives Congress (APC), blocking entrance to the government house.

    TheNewsGuru reports the Governor alleged that the plan was to prevent the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) victory walk slated for today.

    “But we will remain undeterred,” he said, adding “Power of God and the people will prevail over Federal Power”.

     

  • Chris Ngige: Fayose says Minister is his good friend

    Chris Ngige: Fayose says Minister is his good friend

    Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has thanked President Muhammadu Buhari’s Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, for campaigning for his governorship candidate.

    TheNewsGuru reports the Minister of Labour and Employment got himself into a big mess on Tuesday at the All Progressives Congress (APC) mega rally held at the Oluyemi Kayode Stadium in Ado Ekiti.

    Ngige, instead of campaigning for the APC party he represents, he faltered and campaigned for the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) and Governor Fayose instead, in the presence of his boss and the mammoth crowd present at the rally.

    Reacting to the development, Fayose called the Minister his good friend, and thanked him for campaigning for him, saying the Minister is not afraid to say the truth.

    “I thank my good friend, Dr Chris Ngige for campaigning for me at the APC rally in Ado Ekiti yesterday.

    “Dr. Ngige is a man who is not always afraid to say the truth and that’s what he demonstrated yesterday even in the presence of the President and other APC leaders,” he said.

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    Ngige at the rally, turning to President Buhari, said, “Mr President, the leaders of our party, our people are ready, they are ready and on Saturday it will happen.

    “Especially those from the South west for the mistake they made in 2014, so they won’t make that mistake again”.

    “If you marry two wives, you go know which one wey better. Fayose is the better Wife, he dey cook, he dey give him husband better food, he no dey give am trouble, so you must bring back Fayose on Saturday,” he said to the amazement of the crowd.

     

  • 2019: APC, 20 others join forces to tackle PDP’s anti-Buhari coalition

    Less than twenty-four hours after a group of 38 opposition political parties led by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) announced the formation of Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) to wrestle power from the President Muhammadu Buhari led All Progressives Congress (APC), another group of 20 political parties on Tuesday joined forces with the APC in an alliance to form the Coalition of Progressives Political Parties (CPPP).

    The political parties which met in Abuja to form the CPPP include; All Progressives Congress (APC), Accord Party, Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM), United Progressive Party (UPP), Advanced People’s Democratic Alliance (APDA), Hope Democratic Party (HDP), Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) and Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN).

    Others are: Freedom Justice Party (FJP), Fresh Party (FP), New Nigeria’s Peoples Party (NNPP), Nigeria’s Peoples Congress (NPC), Nigeria Peoples Movement (NPM), Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), National Action Congress (NAC) and NDLP.

    The chairman of the coalition, who is also the National chairman of PDM, Alhaji Bashir Yusuf Ibrahim, told reporters after hours of meeting at the Transcorp Hilton, Abuja that the coalition was made up of like-minded political parties who believe in Nigeria’s unity and stability.

    He noted that the coalition, which was formed in 2014 ahead of the 2015 presidential election aligned with the candidature of President Buhari, then the APC candidate.

    Ibrahim said the coalition was merely resurrected to counter the orchestrated PDP coalition against the APC-led government.

    Berating the PDP coalition, he said the parties were driven by selfishness and hunger to capture power in 2019.

    He explained that the parties that formed the coalition with the PDP lacked the agenda to drive a new Nigeria.

    The PDM chairman alleged that most of the parties in the PDP coalition were fraudulently included to sign the MoU to deceive Nigerians.

    He noted that while the Accord Party chairman and his party, the PDM, among others, abstained from the PDP meeting, their parties’ names were listed without their consent. This, he said, raised doubts about the credibility of the coalition.

    He said: “Yesterday (Monday) we woke up to a new development where PDP outside power has now managed to create another coalition. As facts continue to emerge, they listed 36 political parties. Our analysis of that coalition reveals that a number of political parties were included in that coalition fraudulently.

    “Part of the 42 political parties they listed is Accord party and the chairman of the party is here with us. If you are creating a coalition, you need to be honest about it as to who and who are members of the coalition.

    “As of today, the membership of that coalition is in doubt. Two members also listed at that coalition are here. We are not part of that coalition because we represent a political type of politics which is in total contradiction of what they are doing.

    “We do not believe that our country should be governed by people whose only objective is to capture power. For what purpose is that coalition built? Is it for the purpose of taking Nigeria back to 1999 and 2015 or is it for the purpose of building a new Nigeria?

    “That purpose has not been stated, even their in their memorandum. The only thing in their MoU is to agree to capture power in 2019. Their programme has not been made known to the Nigerian public . We will not be part of a coalition that does not have a programme for Nigeria.”

    On the objective of the CPPP coalition, Ibrahim said it was to mobilise Nigerians to play a greater role in political activities and ensure that they are given the right to elect their leaders in a free. fair and credible electoral process.

    He said the agenda included to monitor and exert pressure on INEC to uphold the sanctity of elections and to help identify security threat, among others.

    The secretary of the Coalition and National Chairman of the Advanced People’s Democratic Alliance (APDA), Shittu Muhammed Kabiru, noted that the coalition was to advance the course of democracy and to stabilise the economy which was mismanaged by past PDP- led governments.

    Shittu said the coalition would bring Nigeria out of economic impoverishment.

    “We want Nigerians to know that our coalition is for a new Nigeria and to advance the cause of Nigeria and democracy and also to change the country from impoverishment to economic prosperity.

    “We want Nigeria to survive. We will do everything to defend the economy of this country; we are concerned about the unity and stability of Nigeria,” Shittu said.