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.
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.
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.
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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