2015: The masses will enforce free and fair elections – Aregbesola, Oshiomhole

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state and his counterpart from Osun state, Governor Rauf Aregbesola, yesterday declared that Nigerians will enforce free and fair election in 2015, saying that the developmental strides of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in its controlled states will sack President Goodluck Jonathan from Aso Rock come 2015.

The duo declared that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led Federal Government has lost focus therefore the need for Nigerians to vote the alternative party which is APC come 2015 general election. The governors declared this in Benin City during the Commissioning of the 12 blocks of 31 classrooms at Asoro Grammar School Benin City, Annunciation Catholic College Irrua and Isua-Uzenema Road Uromi by Governor Aregbesola. The projects were constructed by the Governor Oshiomhole led administration.

Jonathan can't end Boko Haram, they will continue if he returns —Governor Okorocha

This is what you get if a President is not assertive and his government uses kid gloves on terrorists.

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has said that Boko Haram insurgency would not end if President Goodluck Jonathan gets returned as Nigeria’s leader in the 2015 general elections.
Okorocha made the declaration in Akure, the Ondo State capital, during a visit to the state’s secretariat of the APC with his team to woo delegates to back him for the party’s presidential ticket.

He said President Goodluck Jonathan had proved incapable of handling the Boko Haram insurgency, and that the terrorists threat was becoming worse than the Nigerian civil war. He accused officials of the Jonathan administration of using the anti-insurgency campaign as a “commercial business like buying and selling.”

OBASANJO BOMBS FAYOSE

....Ekiti Gov’s apology letter released 
Fayose condemns colleagues for visiting Obasanjo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has asked Ekiti State governor, Ayo Fayose, to shut up and seek God’s forgiveness for abusing him barely two years after he begged him in a letter over previous insults.
Governor Fayose had last week in Ile Ife, Osun State, lambasted Obasanjo for what he called Obasanjo’s unnecessary outbursts on President Goodluck Jonathan.
But Obasanjo, through one of his associates who craved anonymity in Abeokuta on Friday, said that Fayose who wrote him a letter, begging him two years ago to facilitate his (Fayose) return to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) could be attacking him again so soon.
The Obasanjo associate asked Nigerians not to take Fayose serious as he would soon write another letter of apology to the former president.

Effect of Free And Fair Elections In Nigeria

APGA National Assembly Primary in Awka: Failed to hold!As Women threatening to protest Naked in the street of Awka!The election could not hold even till 9:30pm as the people resisted the attempt to use the wrong list that is different from the Authentic list of the delegates that emanated from the ward delegates election .You may recall that APGA on last week held ward congress for the purposes of electing delegates that will elect the party candidates during the election .Early as 8AM yesterday (4/12/2014) the elected delegates and other party faithful were already in the venue of the election (BanHill Hotel, Awka) waiting for the panel that will conduct the said election .The panel came around 6:50pm , but tension went up when they brought out the delegates list that contradict the list of elected party delegates .Most of the party faithful especially those elected by the party members protested and insisted that Party must use the list of those emerged from the various wards for the election since it was the same Party that conducted the delegate election where party members were elected for

You’ve not shown leadership, Kolade tells Jonathan

A former Nigeria’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Dr. Christopher Kolade, on Thursday condemned President Goodluck Jonathan for not showing the right leadership in the manner he had been handling his responsibilities as the nation’s leader.

He spoke at the sixth Christopher Kolade Symposium organised by the Nigeria Leadership Initiative, an organisation he was a pioneer patron.

He made specific reference to Jonathan’s decision to honour a political rally in Kano shortly after a bombing that killed several people early in the year, saying the best he could have done was “to postpone the political event.”

For choosing to continue with the programme, he said, the President did not demonstrate that he was sensitive to the pains of the people.

Tambuwal, Ambode, others win APC governorship ticket

FOR the All Progressives Congress the 2015 contests got underway on Thursday with state chapters electing their governorship candidates.

The APC governorship candidates for the 2015 polls, as they emerged on Thursday, include Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal (Sokoto); a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and public administrator, Akinwunmi Abode(Lagos); a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nasir el-Rufai (Kaduna); and second-term-seeking governors, Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun); Abdulfattah Ahmed (Kwara) and Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo).

Why We Cancelled US Training For Soldiers – FG

The federal government yesterday said the training of Nigerian soldiers by the US was cancelled due to some logistical components needed for the training which the US failed to provide.It said that the US instead relied on Nigerian military equipment which is currently in use in the troubled states in the north east.

The coordinator of the National Information Centre, Mr. Mike Omeri, who stated this when he briefed journalists in Abuja said Nigerian soldiers had concluded two phases of the training out of the three phases before the cancellation.

“The training that is being mentioned were supposed to be in three phases, two phases have been concluded, the next phase requires some logistical components and I don’t think it’s wise to take equipment from the field and keep them in Jaji for training when our soldiers are out there needing the equipment.

World's fattest man, Keith Martin is dead

A Brit who was officially the fattest man in the world has died, it emerged today. Martin - who weighed an astonishing 70 stone at his heaviest - died from pneumonia following a lengthy battle with his weight.

His death at the age of 44 came just eight months after Keith had undergone a successful gastric sleeve which removed three-quarters of his stomach.Speaking today, the surgeon who tried to save his life with life-changing weight-loss surgery is calling for the government to swiftly impose a fast-food tax.Unemployed Keith admitted much of the weight had come from eating huge amounts of super-cheap fast food.

Ganduje Wins Kano APC Gubernatorial Primaries

Kano State Deputy Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, on Monday emerged winner of the APC gubernatorial ticket in the state.
Dr. Ganduje scored a total of 5,588 votes of the total votes cast, defeating the only other aspirant, Brig. Gen. Jafaru Isa (rtd.) who got 126 votes.
Two other contenders, Rep. Abdurrahman Kawu Sumaila and Alhaji Usman Alhaji stepped down for Ganduje shortly after the primary elections commenced at Sani Abacha Indoor stadium in Kano City.
Announcing the result after the election, electoral officer Bello Ayuba disclosed that having has satisfied all the party and INEC conditions, Dr. Ganduje was duly elected.

ABACHA VISITS JONATHAN, SAYS APC WILL LOSE KANO

A gubernatorial aspirant of the People's Democratic Party in Kano State and son of former Head of State Sani Abacha, Mohammed Abacha, says the All Progressives Congress (APC) will lose the 2015 general elections in the state.
Abacha said this in an interview with State House journalists on Friday after a two-hour closed door meeting he had with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
He said despite the defection of Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso to the APC, the PDP remains the dominant party in Kano State.