…Urges President Buhari to take firm stand on Edo crisis A former publicity secretary of the deeply embattled ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo State, Godwin Erhahon has suggested that only the intervention of the president as leader of the party could save the crisis-torn the party in the state. Erhahon who noted that it…
Dissolved NDDC Board set up to Ensure ‘Business as Usual’ – Alasoadura
…Says almost N3 trillion expended with no result The Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs is upbeat about the dissolution of the erstwhile Pius Odubu-led board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. Minister of State for the ministry, Senator Tayo Alasoadura, who accused some people he did not name of having rushed to constitute the…
Edo Assembly Crisis: Confusion over Court Decision on Restraining Order
With all attention now focused on the judiciary in resolving the legislative log-jam in the Edo State House of Assembly, Tuesday’s decision by the Federal High Court, Abuja has sparked off fresh controversy between the feuding parties – the minority group of 10 members loyal to the governor, Godwin Obaseki, who are carrying on legislative…
Uduaghan Cites Regional Development as Reason for Defection
The most commonly advanced reason for Emmanuel Uduaghan, immediate past governor of Delta State to dump the People’s Democratic Party, PDP for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC has been his ambition to go to the Senate. At least that is the refrain from his associates and sympathisers. But those who say this perhaps forgot…
Femi Falana Blows Hot: Says Nigeria’s Human Rights Record Very Bad
Rails against Fellow Lawyers, Accuses them of being Comfortable with Impunity. Radical Lagos lawyer and dogged human rights activist, Femi Falana, senior advocate of Nigeria, SAN, has written off the human rights record of the Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress, APC administration in Nigeria as abysmally low. Falana, in a no-holds-barred conversation Wednesday morning on…
You are a Colossal Failure and don’t Deserve our Support – Oshiomhole’s Kinsmen
Oshiomhole’s Kinsmen Tell Obaseki As loyalists of incumbent governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki and the national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomhole, continue hot exchanges of verbal abuses following the worsening of their political differences, the latter’s political camp has debunked the claim that the governor had been endorsed for…
APC Crisis: PDP’ll Soon Be in The Majority in Edo House of Assembly – Orbih, Out-Going State Chairman
As the crisis that had been rocking the Edo State chapter of the All Progressives, APC, for several months now appears intractable, Edo State chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Dan Osi Orbih is upbeat that the party which lost the state to the Action Congress of Nigeria, (now APC) in 2008 through the…
Edo APC Crisis: Leave Oba of Benin Out of Politics, Oshiomhole Faction Warns Governor’s Camp
The faction of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo State loyal to the immediate past governor of the state and national chairman of the ruling party, Adams Oshiomhole has warned the political camp of the governor, Godwin Obaseki not to drag the Benin monarch, Oba Ewuare 11 into the political crisis rocking the party.…
The fallout of Ize-Iyamu’s Return to APC: Rival APC Faction Embark on Membership Drive
About three weeks after it announced its plan to set up a committee that would embark on its own membership drive in reaction to the controversial rally of Friday, December 13 last year to welcome some defectors from the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC in Edo State led by…
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