Today’s Daily Brief: PDP tells APC to focus on the campaign, Boko Haram ‘abducts 18 female soldiers in Borno’, APC commiserates with GEJ over sister’s death, and more

The Peoples Democratic Party has told the All Progressives Congress and its Presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to focus on real campaign and try to win followers genuinely.

PDP National Publicity Secretary, Mr Olisa Metuh, in a statement in Abuja on Monday said “the APC ‘change agenda’ should be based on issues and not on change of dressing and religious gathering.

“This election is not about political window-dressing and dramatizing. What will count is record of performance and antecedents, in which President Jonathan stands taller than Buhari.

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THE leader of the All Progressives Congress in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State and the House of Representatives candidate of the party, Chief Tony Okocha, has called on the Rivers State Police Commissioner, Mr. Dan Bature, to arrest the former local government chairman of the area, Chief Timothy Nsirim, for allegedly assaulting him during the APC ward congress.

Okocha told newsmen in Port Harcourt on Monday that Nsirim, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Obio/Akpor, who walked into the venue of the APC ward congress in Ward 12, attacked him with a chair.

He expressed surprise that a PDP chieftain could come into an APC event to attack him, adding that he was able to defend himself when Nsirim attempted to hit him with a chair for the second time.

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During the recent attack by Boko Haram on Baga, in Borno, 18 female soldiers were reportedly kidnapped from the town.

According to online platform, Sahara Reporters, two military sources disclosed that only 8 out of the 26 female soldiers posted to the military base of the Multinational Joint Task Force, have been accounted for.

The report stated that the commander of the troops in the area, Colonel Kuti, has also been missing since the insurgents attacked the town on Saturday, January 3.

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Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has told his predecessor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, to stop lying on the actual cost of the new Government House that he inaugurated in his last days in office.
The Governor said the total contract sum for the Oke Ayoba Government House was N3.38bn and not N2.1bn as claimed by Fayemi.
Fayose in a statement by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, on Monday revealed that Fayemi authorised the award of additional contracts for the building on October 10, 2014.
He disclosed that the contract was initially awarded to Kouris Construction Nig. Ltd on July 27, 2012 for N2,054,573,822.00 while additional contract of N730,186,636.87 was awarded on October 10, 2014, six days before the expiration of Fayemi’s administration.
The statement read, “Apart from the additional contract of N730m, another contract worth N604,961,645.72 for the furnishing of the Government House was awarded to Kitwood Nigeria Limited on June 18, 2014, three days to the  governorship election that he (Fayemi) lost scandalously.

THE All Progressives Congress has condoled with President Goodluck Jonathan over the death of his 52-year-old sister, Mrs. Nancy Jonathan-Olei.

Mrs. Jonathan-Olei had died in a hospital in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, during a brief illness.

The APC, in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, urged President Jonathan to take solace in God for the unquantifiable loss.

“The All Progressives Congress (APC) has commiserated with President Goodluck Jonathan on the untimely death of his sister, urging him to take solace in God for the unquantifiable loss,” the statement read.

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