We deliver your news brief for Wednesday, October 29, 2014.
The National Working Committee (NWC) Wednesday advised Governor of Ondo State, Olusegun Mimiko to respect Labour Party (LP) constitution and resign from office.
Mimiko who was elected into office as LP candidate dumped the party for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
LP NWC took the decision after a meeting in Abuja.
According to a statement issued by the LP National Publicity Secretary, Ikpe Etokudo: “The NWC came to the inevitable conclusion that the constitution of the republic and provision of relevant section of the electoral laws must be respected by Dr. Olusegun Mimiko and his new party – the PDP.
Still basking in the euphoria of his defection from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the opposition All Progressives Congress, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, on Wednesday, vowed that his new party will chase out the “cabal” currently running the country in the 2015 presidential election.
Apparently referring to the PDP-led federal government, the Speaker said the APC was the only party that could give Nigerians hope and urged its members to unite in order to achieve the task.
Mr. Tambuwal spoke at the APC’s extraordinary non-elective national convention held at the Old Parade Ground, Abuja Wednesday.
Members of the National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party have taken a position on the zoning of governorship position in Akwa Ibom State.
In a surprise move aimed at silencing opponents of Governor Godswill Akpabio, the party said only candidates from Eket Senatorial Zone would be allowed to vie for the party’s governorship seat in the state.
With this, the party has pitched its tent with Akpabio against others, who had opposed the resolve of the governor on the zoning formular.
A former Governor of the state, Chief Victor Attah, has been the leader of a group of PDP stakeholders among whom is a former Minister of Petroleum, Chief Don Etiebet, asking that qualified aspirants be allowed to contest, the party’s ticket in the state, regardless of their zone.
Eight Peoples Democratic Party aspirants that obtained nomination forms for the botched October 11 governorship election in Adamawa State stormed the Abuja secretariat of the party on Wednesday, asking the leadership to respect a subsisting agreement.
They had stepped down for the former Acting Governor of the state, Umar Fintiri, before a Federal High Court in Abuja halted the by-election and installed the former Deputy Governor, Bala Ngilari, as governor.
Upon stepping down for Fintiri, in the botched by-election, the PDP had assured the aspirants that their nomination forms would still be valid for the governorship election proper.
The leader of the six anti-Governor Rotimi Amaechi lawmakers in the Rivers State House of Assembly, Mr. Evans Bipi, has called on the governors kinsmen to tell their son to desist from the verbal attacks against President Goodluck Jonathan.
Bipi, who describes himself as the speaker of the State House of Assembly, also warned that the state would be made ungovernable for Amaechi should he continue in to attack the President.
Speaking with newsmen in Port Harcourt on Wednesday, Bipi expressed the need for the governor’s kinsmen to call him to order so that he (Amaechi) could conclude the remaining months of his tenure.
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