Today’s Daily Brief: Wike challenges Amaechi to a debate on corruption, Sen. Mark gets emotional as constituents purchase nomination form for him, Bashir Tofa says APC will in 2015, and more

We deliver your news brief for Monday, October 27, 2014.

 

The former Minister of State for Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, on Monday, challenged the Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, to a debate on corruption.

Wike, who accused Amaechi of being corrupt, vowed that the governor must account for any fraudulent act while in government.

The ex-minister, who was the chief of staff to Amaechi in the past, vowed to wrestle power from the All Progressives Congress in the state.

Punch

 

Following the crisis rocking the Edo State House of Assembly, heads of security agencies on Monday held a peace meeting with leaders of All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party as part of efforts to restore normalcy to the state.

Briefing journalists after the four-hour closed-door meeting held at the state police command headquarters in Benin, the Commissioner of Police, Folusho Adebanjo, explained that the meeting afforded the participants the avenue to identify the various issues of contention and fashion out ways to reconcile the two parties.

Adebanjo, who was flanked by the Fourth Brigade Army Commander, Brigadier-General Fidelis Azinta, and the State Director of the Department of Security, Bello Bakori, decried recent political wrangling among the two major political parties, which he said did not “augur well for peace and security as the countdown to 2015 elections approaches.”

Punch

 

The All Progressives Congress will defeat the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in a free and fair election in 2015, a one time presidential candidate in Nigeria, Alhaji Bashir Usman Tofa, has said.

Tofa spoke in an interview with the Voice of America, Hausa Service monitored by journalists in Kaduna on Monday.

He said the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, may eventually join the presidential race on the platform of the APC, taking the number of contenders for the nation’s highest political office to six.

Nation

 

Senate President, David Mark, reportedly broke down in tears on Monday as he accepted the 2015 Peoples Democratic Party nomination form from his constituents in the Benue South Senatorial District, to return to the Senate next year.

A statement by Mark’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Kolawole Ologbondiyan, in Abuja, explained that the nine local government council chairmen in Benue South Senatorial zone purchased the party nomination form in Makurdi.

The statement added that the people said they want Mark to return to the Senate unchallenged.

Punch

 

The crisis rocking the Enugu State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has attracted the attention of the National Headquarters of the party.

Our correspondent gathered in Abuja, on Monday, that officials of the party, who were said to be embarrassed by the turn of events, are seeking for a political solution to the feud.

It was learnt that the latest crisis was sequel to disagreements over the appointment of Ilene Adowa as acting state chairman following the resignation of Vita Abba.

Punch

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