Ijaw elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, on Thursday said the presidential candidate of the All Progressives’ Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, is incapable of ruling a democratic state.

Clark, who stated this in al statement to the 22 aggrieved former governorship aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa-Ibom State, also urged the politicians to whom he addressed his statement, not to desert the party for the APC.

According to him, the APC is an alliance that is not in the interest of Nigerians.

He, however, noted that Buhari is today surrounded by controversies because of his “sordid past,” accusing him on surviving on ethnic and religious sentiments.

Nation

 

Governor of Edo state, Adams Oshiomhole, has accused the Peoples Democratic Party, of oppressing Nigerians.

Oshiomhole said Nigerians have continued to suffer under the 16-year leadership of the PDP as a result of the party’s dedication “to preserve the privileges of the few.”

The governor made the utterances while receiving defectors from the PDP to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Benin, the Edo State capital.

YNaija

 

Reacting to widespread accusation of bias, the management of Daar Communications owners of African Independent Television (AIT), has issued a release claiming that supporters of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Muhammadu Buhari, rigged its online presidential poll.

On Tuesday, January 27, while Buhari was in the clear lead of 71% to President Goodluck Jonathan’s 21%, AIT pulled the poll from its website.

As soon as the poll was taken down, social media, political commentators, and the media went on overdrive with different theories to explain what could have led to the abrupt removal of the poll.

YNaija

 

The Independent National Electoral Commission in the Federal Capital Territory said on Thursday that it was impracticable to extend distribution of the Permanent Voter Cards till the eve of the presidential election scheduled for February 14.

Many have expressed concern over the slow pace of the distribution of the cards‎ and suggested that it should be extended till February 13 to avoid disenfranchisement of many registered voters.

But the Resident Electoral Commissioner of Abuja, Prof. Jacob Jatau, who addressed journalists at his office in Abuja said the the commission would not be able to combine the logistics involved in preparing for the election with the distribution exercise till ‎the eve of the first round of polls.

Punch

 

The Serving Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has said a majority of those that constitute the power blocs in the country are in support of All Progressives Congress pres‎idential candidate, Muhammad Buhari.

He said this while speaking on the theme, ‘Nigeria beyond 2015′, at a public lecture organised by Angola Hall of Obafemi Awolowo University, Osun State, on Wednesday.

According to him, power blocs in any country influence and determine winners during elections.

The Nigerian power blocs, he said, were peoples vote, council of state, clerics, governors, traditional rulers, top entrepreneurs and retired generals.

Punch