The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has broken his silence on his preferred aspirant for the governorship ticket of the party in Lagos State.

Tinubu made his position known in a statement he personally signed on Sunday.

Though he did not mention names in the statement, Tinubu said the incumbent, Akinwunmi Ambode, had disrupted the vision of the party for the state, adding that Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who had been endorsed by virtually all layers of leadership of the party and numerous group, will restore it.

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The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has decided to hold its national convention in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital.

This was one of the key decisions taken at the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting held yesterday at the Abuja secretariat of the PDP.

The party reportedly agreed to hold the convention in Port Harcourt, after Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, tendered an apology to the leadership of the party and other stakeholders at the meeting.

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The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, on Friday said the Minister of Communication, Adebayo Shittu, and the Minister of Women Affairs, Hajia Aisha Al-Hassan, popularly known as Mama Taraba, were not cleared to stand for the governorship primaries of their states in order to protect the core values of the party.

Oshiomhole gave the reasons at a news conference he addressed in Abuja on the failure to clear Shittu and Al-Hassan for the governorship primaries in Oyo and Taraba States respectively.

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After the emergency meeting of the National Executive Committee at the national headquarters in Abuja on Friday, the People’s Democratic Party has insisted on Port Harcout, Rivers State, as the venue for its National Convention.

The convention which will produce PDP’s presidential candidate for the 2019 elections is scheduled for October 5-6, 2018. The party had earlier announced Port Harcout as the venue for the convention but the choice of the venue was protested by some members of the party with claims that the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, is supporting one of the presidential aspirants.

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Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose on Friday alleged that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Police and other security agencies were compromised in favour of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) at the recently-concluded Osun state governorship election.

Fayose, a member of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) said the result of the election was a repeat of Ekiti state governorship election won by the APC which he described as a “stolen mandate” by the ruling party.

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Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has said that there will be consequences if the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP succumbs to pressures from ‘planted PDP Presidential aspirants’ to move the party’s National Convention away from Port Harcourt.

Governor Wike also declared that Rivers State will not support any desperate PDP presidential aspirant, who is sabotaging the economy of the state by fighting against the hosting of the party’s presidential primary in the state.

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Davido keeps giving update on the Osun election on his social media handle. The singer has just revealed that the INEC given figure of the total number of registered voters in 7 polling units including: Orolu Lg, Ife South Lg, Ife North Lg and Osogbo Lg where rerun will take place is wrong.

The total collated figure was given as 3498 instead of 2686 with 812 votes uncovered.

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The rift between All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Senator Bola Tinubu, and Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, has given impetus to an organised challenge of the party’s dominance in the state as a political group, the Peoples Trust, has indicated its intention to coalesce with 30 other political parties to mobilise the people for the takeover of Lagos State.

The group that has as its leading light, human rights activist, Mr. Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), said it would use the rift as a window to mobilise the people to challenge godfather politics and take over the state.

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Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has described the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), as a threat to the 2019 general elections in the country.

Ekweremadu, who spoke in Abuja yesterday against the background of the Saturday’s governorship poll in Osun state which the electoral body declared inconclusive, said what transpired in Osun last weekend was a clear indication that INEC would be a clear threat to the February 2019 elections.

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The World Bishops Council (WBC), Africa, has cautioned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) not to kill the country’s democracy being nurtured since 1999, noting that the reported manipulation of the results of the recent Osun State governorship election should be a major concern to all.

The WBC Directorate of Information said through its Africa spokesman, Bishop Seun Adeoye, that the discovery of such obvious tampering with the original votes recorded by the opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in favour of the ruling party All Progressives Congress (APC) is disgraceful to INEC.

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The All Progressives Congress has accused the Peoples Democratic Party of buying up and cloning Permanent Voter Cards ahead of Thursday’s rerun governorship election in Osun State.

The party stated this in a statement by its Acting National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena.

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The All Progressives Campaign Council for the Osun Governorship Election has urged the party’s members in the areas where the state’s election rerun will be held on Thursday to ignore the alleged rantings of the PDP and turn out en masse to vote for the ruling party.

In a statement in Abuja by the Chairman of the Council’s Media Committee, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Council said the threat by the PDP to challenge, in court, the Independent National Electoral Commission’s declaration of last Saturday’s election as inconclusive was nothing but sheer bravado.

He said the PDP was merely afraid of losing the rerun.

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The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties has described the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission to declare Saturday’s governorship election in Osun State inconclusive as “a rape of basic democratic process and rule of law”.

In a statement signed by its Secretary General, Chief Willy Ezugwu, the CNPP noted that “garnering a simple majority of valid votes cast is what was required to be declared the winner in the Osun State election.

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The APC Campaign Council for the 2018 Osun Governorship Election has described as excessive grandstanding the call by the PDP for INEC to declare its candidate in the polls as the winner.

In a statement issued in Lagos on Monday, the Chairman of the Council’s Media Committee, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, decried the PDP’s descent into hysteria after INEC announced that the election was inconclusive.

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The APC Campaign Council for the 2018 Osun Governorship Election has described as excessive grandstanding the call by the PDP for INEC to declare its candidate in the polls as the winner.

In a statement issued in Lagos on Monday, the Chairman of the Council’s Media Committee, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, decried the PDP’s descent into hysteria after INEC announced that the election was inconclusive.

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President of the Senate and Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party’s Presidential Council on Osun State Governorship Election, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has faulted the declaration by the Independent National Electoral Commission that the results of the election held on Saturday were inconclusive.

Saraki, in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday, expressed dismay over the decision by the INEC to declare as “inconclusive” an election in which a candidate won the highest number of votes and fulfilled the condition for a geographical spread.

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The Minister for Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has stated that his successor, Nyesom Wike, and the lawmaker representing Rivers Southeast Senatorial District, Senator Magnus Abe, are conniving and conspiring to disparage and defame him.

He declared that Rivers State governor (Wike), a chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), and Abe, a governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), were plotting to use his former cabinet members to tell fake, concocted and distorted stories to the media that were meant to denigrate him, impugn his unblemished integrity and paint a very terrible image of him to members of the public.

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Ahead of Saturday’s governorship election in Osun, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) say vote buyers and their customers risk being arrested and prosecuted.

Rotimi Oyekanmi, the Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said this in a statement in Abuja on Friday.

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Former Head of state, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, on Friday said he will forever be an enemy of anyone that tried to hinder the democratic development of Nigeria or plunge Nigeria into crisis.

Abdualsalami said this at the Maiden Edition of General Abdulsalami Abubakar Foundation Peace Lecture, organised by the staff and students of the Abdulsalami Abubakar Post Graduate Students’ Hall of the University of Ibadan. The lecture was titled; “Collaborative Peace Building in Nigeria.”

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Nigeria forward, Alex Iwobi, is delighted with the great start Arsenal made to their UEFA Europa League campaign in Group E this season on Thursday.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored twice while other goals from Danny Welbeck and Mesut Ozil gave the Gunners a comfortable 4-2 win over Ukrainian side Vorskla Poltava.

Vladimir Chesnakov and Vyacheslav Sharpar bagged the consolation goals for Vorskla Poltava.

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Senator Ademola Adeleke, the PDP governorship candidate in the Osun election on Saturday may not be qualified to run for the office and his attempt to make things up, has landed him in police trouble.

The police asked him and four others to report today to report to their Special Investigation Panel at the Abuja headquarters for arraignment in court.

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Tuesday said that the declaration by the supervising Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, that Nigeria was facing revenue challenges further vindicates its stand that President Muhammadu Buhari lacks the creative capacity and competence to run a productive economy.

The opposition party noted that had President Buhari heed wise counsel from Nigerians to accept his incompetence, hands off economic issues, end the corruption in his Presidency and get a strong economic team to manage the country’s economy, the nation’s foreign direct investments and domestic productivity would not have crumpled.

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President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday attended the grand rally of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oshogbo, where he said the state must be retained by the party.

He appealed to the people not to allow darkness to take over the state of Osun.

Buhari said that the people should come out massively to vote for APC and not allow corrupt people to have their way in the state.

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to stop parading himself as ‘Mr. Integrity’, following revelations that the federal government smuggled the erstwhile Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, out of the country.

The party alleged that Adeosun was smuggled out of the country by the government to prevent her from exposing how the Presidency cabal, including close relations and associates of the President fleeced the country of trillions of naira.

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Former Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswil Akpabio, yesterday in Abuja portrayed himself as a chameleon when he disclosed that his heart was actually with President Muhammadu Buhari at the 2015 presidential election and not with his party’s candidate, former President Goodluck Jonathan.

Akpabio who last month defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC), made the disclosure after a meeting of the elders and leaders of Akwa Ibom State with President Muhammadu Buhari in the State House.

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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp defended Neymar’s play-acting at the World Cup and believes it will be impossible to completely snuff out the Brazilian’s threat when Paris Saint-Germain visit Anfield in the Champions League on Tuesday.Klopp insisted Neymar wasn’t fully fit in Russia after breaking a bone in his foot in February that forced him to miss the rest of the club season with the French giants before the World Cup.

However, the world’s most expensive player earned few plaudits for his performances and became a figure of fun for his constant feigning of injury as Brazil crashed out at the quarter-finals to Belgium.

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Gombe State Governor and a presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Ibrahim Dankwambo, has praised the leadership of the party for rejecting the proposal for a micro-zoning to pick its standard bearer for the 2019 presidential election among its various aspirants.

Dankwambo, who spoke through his campaign organisation, commended the leadership of the PDP for its quick and timely response in jettisoning the demand for micro zoning arrangement among its presidential aspirants, especially those from the North West geo-political zone in the primary election scheduled for October 5, 2018.

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Sule Lamido, a presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says Nigerians are living in fear.

Lamido said this on Monday when he met with the Southern and Middle Belt Forum in Abuja.

The former Jigawa governor is the fourth aspirant to meet with the elders after former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, Attahiru Bafarawa, former Sokoto governor, and Sina Fagbenro of KOWA Party.

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Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic made history on Saturday, scoring his 500th career goal in stunning fashion but it wasn’t enough to lift the Los Angeles Galaxy to a win over Toronto FC.

The 36-year-old Ibrahimovic has always had a flair for the dramatic and he did just that in becoming the third active footballer to reach the milestone, joining Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

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Barely last minute change, Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode may endorse former Commissioner for Establishments, Training and Pensions, Babajide Sanwo-Olu as his successor on Sunday.

Sanwo-Olu is billed to declare his intention to run for the governorship seat of Lagos for 2019 tomorrow at the Police College, Ikeja, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria.

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A free kick by midfielder Granit Xhaka and a goal by Mesut Ozil gave Arsenal a 2-1 win at Newcastle United despite a stuttering first-half performance on Saturday.

Newcastle’s Federico Fernandez brought down Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang on the edge of the box and Xhaka stepped up to strike a free kick into the top right-hand corner from 30 yards.

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An All Progressives Congress governorship aspirant in Lagos State, Mr Jide Sanwo-Olu, on Friday said he did not believe a national leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, would ask him to back down on his ambition.

Sanwo-Olu made the statement during an interactive session with newsmen in Lagos.

A journalist had asked him whether he would step down his ambition or not if Tinubu asked him to do so.

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