Today’s Daily Brief: Buhari submits nomination form, Orji Kalu withdraws from senatorial race, PDP aspirants blame Wike for their woes, and more

Former Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), Monday submitted his presidential nomination form at the All Progressive Congress national secretariat in Abuja, saying it was unfortunate that insecurity has been allowed to prevail in the country.

Buhari, who spoke with journalists after submitting his form to the National Chairman of the APC, Chief John Odigie Oyegun, said last week’s invasion of the National Assembly by some policemen is a rape of the nation’s constitution.

He said, “It is a distressing situation where those who are supposed to protect the constitution are those who are undermining it. That place, the House of Representatives and the Senate are sacred places.

Nation

 

Former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, has withdrawn from the 2015 senatorial race.

Kalu was seeking the ticket for the Abia North senatorial district on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

In a letter dated November 24, 2014 and addressed to the National Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Adamu Muazu, the former governor said he was withdrawing from the race because the Abia State Governor, Theodore Orji, was bent on imposing his handpicked aspirants on the party in the state.

He lamented that the governor deceived some high profile members of the party into resigning their plum positions to contest elections, only for him to ditch them for his handpicked candidates.

Nation

 

Governor Ibikunle Amosun’s Deputy Chief of Staff, Alhaji Shuaib Salisu and three other members of Ogun State Executive Council have resigned their appointments to contest the 2015 elections in compliance with the 2010 Electoral Act.

Amosun made this known at the State Executive Council Meeting held on Monday in Oke – Mosan Governors’ Office, Abeokuta.

According to the Governor, the resignation of the quartet was to allow them pursue their political ambitions in the 2015 elections.

Nation

 

Former Governor of Plateau State, Ambassador Fidelis Tapgun, was on Monday cleared to contest the People’s Democratic Party primary election for the governorship of the state.

The party also made a U-turn and finally received the immediate past governor, Chief Joshua Dariye, and former deputy governor, Mrs. Pauline Tallen, along with 61 others, who defected to the party on Monday.

Dariye is aspiring to go back to the Senate on the platform of the PDP.

He is presently representing Plateau Central in the Senate under the umbrella of the Labour Party.

Punch

 

THE crisis rocking the Rivers State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party took a fresh turn on Monday when 16 aggrieved governorship aspirants accused the immediate past Minister of State for Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, of sponsoring spurious petitions against some them.

The governorship aspirants expressed shock that some of them were confronted by the gubernatorial screening panel with petitions that they were not members of the PDP.

Under the aegis of the Rivers Mainstream Coalition, the governorship aspirants said it was difficult to rationalise such ‘frivolous’ petitions when the aspirant had been certified as members of the PDP by the National Working Committee.

Punch

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