A major crisis is brewing in the Yobe State chapter of the All Progressives Congress following the refusal of the party to receive the completed nomination forms from a governorship aspirant, Mustapha Maihaja.
Maihaja, who was at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja on Tuesday, told reporters that he had gone to the state party secretariat to submit his nomination and expression of interest forms, but was turned back.
When he took his case to the national secretariat, he was advised to go back to the state.
Erhiatake Ibori, a daughter of jailed former Governor James Onanefe Ibori of Delta State, is running for a seat in the Delta State House of Assembly. Ms. Ibori plans to seek the legislative seat on the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), a party to which her corrupt father belonged.
A source in the state told SaharaReporters that the imprisoned former governor’s daughter’s ambition had already created disaffection in Oghara, Mr. Ibori’s Oghara community. Last September, some protesters besieged the local government headquarters to register their displeasure with the party’s decision to impose Ms. Ibori as the candidate for the legislative seat.
Ms. Ibori, whose father is serving a 13-year jail sentence in London after pleading no-contest to allegations of extensive money laundering during his eight-year stint as governor, has opened a Facebook page.
Jimi Agbaje, a governorship aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has declared that his party would rule Lagos State for 16 uninterrupted years.
He made the comments while addressing party delegates from Lagos East Senatorial district on Monday, 24 November, at Maryland, Lagos.
Agbaje promised that the PDP would uspet the All Progressives Congress at the next election in the state, while urging party members to ensure PDP’s victory in the gubernatorial polls so that Mr Sikiru Ogboye, a PDP agent, who was shot dead earlier this month, did not die in vain.
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said it will no longer condone what the party described as “deliberate, unwarranted and sustained vicious attacks” on President Goodluck Jonathan, the institutions of democracy by the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC.
In a statement Tuesday, the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, said one of the deductions Nigerians would easily make from the attacks from APC is that the party has neither an agenda nor an issue to offer.
“Nigerians have waited for too long for the APC’s roadmap with convention after convention (two in less than a month) producing only humbug, claptrap and a regurgitation of worn- out, anachronistic clichés,” the PDP said.
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