Today’s Daily Brief: Akpabio says PDP has always suspected Tambuwal, Kwankwaso declares presidential bid, PDP rejects 2 presidential aspirants, and more

We deliver your news brief for Tuesday, October 28, 2014.

 

Its majority status in the House of Representatives far from overwhelming, after a series of defections, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, acknowledged Tuesday it may lack a required two-third support to force out the speaker, Aminu Tambuwal, who decamped from the party Tuesday.

Mr. Tambuwal dumped the ruling party for the opposition All Progressives Congress, citing factionalization within the party in his home state, Sokoto.

In its response, the PDP national leadership said the “honourable and responsible” thing for the speaker to do would be to resign from his position.

The party did not state its response if the speaker refuses to voluntarily quit.

Premium Times

 

The governor of Kano State, Rabi’u Kwankwaso, on Tuesday in Abuja, formally declared his intention to seek the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the February 2015 election.

He lampooned the Goodluck Jonathan-led federal administration, which he described as incompetent and divisive, saying the government had led Nigeria on the path of corruption and economic woes.

Mr. Kwankwaso becomes the third aspirant on the platform of the Nigeria’s main opposition to formally declare his presidential bid.

Premium Times

 

Governor Godswill Akpabio  of Akwa Ibom State has said the PDP has always suspected the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr.  Aminu Tambuwal.

He said his defection to the APC did not come to him and the party as a surprise, but said that even with the defection, the ruling party still has majority in the House.

Akpabio, who spoke with journalists when he visited the national secretariat of the party in Abuja on Tuesday, said as an honourable, he would expect the speaker to resign.

Punch

 

The Peoples Democratic Party had turned back two presidential aspirants who were at its national headquarters in Abuja to pick their presidential nomination forms on Tuesday.

The aspirants are Dr. Abdul-Jhalil Tafawa-Balewa and Prof. Akasoba Duke-Abiola.

First to arrive was Tafawa-Balewa, who hails from Bauchi State, and the son of Nigeria’s First Republic Prime Minister, Abubakar Tafawa-Balewa.

All the caucuses of the party, including the National Executive Council, had endorsed President Goodluck Jonathan as its sole presidential candidate, foreclosing the possibility of any aspirants angling for the party’s ticket.

Punch

 

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, on Tuesday spoke about his fears for next year’s general election in the country.

The INEC chief said he was bothered by heightening insecurity and the unruly attitude of politicians which constitute major challenges to peaceful elections next year.

Jega, who said the security problem was more evident in the three troubled Northeastern states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe, stated that his greatest fear for the 2015 elections was making politicians to play by the rules.

“The attitude of the political class is the greatest challenge. They want to intimidate, harass and induce.‎

Nation

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