The South East chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has expressed outrage over the claim by a former Senate President, Ken Nnamani, that the zone would support President Goodluck Jonathan’s second term bid to enable him complete the second Niger Bridge.
Mr. Nnamani, who spoke for the South East members of the People Democratic Party, PDP, at Mr. Jonathan’s declaration on Tuesday, said the region was backing the president in the February presidential election to avoid the abandonment of the bridge.
He also expressed worry that the president had not rehabilitated the Enugu-Onitsha Highway, which is the busiest highway in the region.
The party, in a statement by its spokesperson, Osita Okechukwu, said it was yet to recover from Mr. Nnamani’s double-speak on one hand indicting Mr. Jonathan for neglecting the highway, which is in terrible condition, and on the other hand that it was only the president that could fix it.
The Nigerian Police have said an agent of the All Progressives Congress in the June 21 governorship election in Ekiti State, Mr. Peter Alabi, was involved snatching of ballot box during the poll in Ayedun Ekiti, Ikole Local Government Area of the state.
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal, has joined the race to become the President of the country in 2015 on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, which he defected to two weeks ago.
Media aides of the Speaker, who joined the APC from the Peoples Democratic Party, confirmed that “friends and associates” bought the presidential nomination form of the party for Tambuwal, who became the Speaker of the House in 2011.
Tambuwal’s Special Adviser on Media, Mr. Imam Imam, told our correspondent on the telephone on Thursday, “Earlier today, some friends and associates of the Speaker notified him that they have bought presidential nomination forms for him.”
A governorship aspirant of the People’s Democratic Party in Plateau State, Senator Cosmas Niagwan, is dead.
Our correspondent gathered that Niagwan died in his sleep in Lagos.
News of the ex-lawmaker’s death, who was 75, filtered into Jos in the early hours of Thursday.
Niagwan, who represented Plateau South senatorial zone in the 5th Assembly, was said to have travelled to Lagos from his Jos home to transact some business when he met his untimely death.
The opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, has promised to recapture all territories lost to the terrorist group, Boko Haram, if the party wins the 2015 election.
The national chairman of the APC, John Oyegun, who addressed a press conference at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja on Thursday, said the ruling Peoples Democratic Party and President Goodluck Jonathan have failed the nation by allowing the terrorist group to take over control of some towns and Local Government in the north east.
Borno state government recently announced that Boko Haram was in control of eight of the twenty seven local governments in the state. Governor Bala Ngilari of Adamawa state also said the insurgents control about five local governments in the state. Boko Haram are reportedly also in control of about three local governments in Yobe state.
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