Ijaw Youths Council Sharply Criticizes MEND For Endorsement Of Buhari

Self-acclaimed ex-militant generals Wednesday gathered in Yenagoa to decry the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta Region’s (MEND) endorsement of the APC standard-bearer, Muhammadu Buhari.

Buhari Promises To Grow Non-Oil Sector Of Economy

The Presidential Candidate of All Progressive Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammad Buhari, on Wednesday promised to use the non-oil sector to boost Nigeria’s economy, if elected.

Buhari made the promise in Calabar at a Presidential Campaign rally.

“Our main objective is to make sure that agriculture and other non-oil sector get priority to give opportunities to every Nigerian so that Nigerians, whether educated or not, will have gainful employment,’’ he said.

Buhari said his administration would also restore the lost glory of education and address the problem of power supply to resuscitate ailing industries in the country.

We Will Expose The Real Buhari — Femi Fani-Kayode

A former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, on Wednesday said there are dangers in electing Muhammadu Buhari, the candidate of the opposition party All Progressives Congress, APC, as the President of Nigeria come February 14.
Mr. Fani-Kayode, who is the spokesperson of President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign team, said the group will expose the dangers he described.
He said this at a news conference in Abuja.

Nigerians are tired of Jonathan, he’s a failure – Former Nasarawa Governor, Abdullahi Adamu

A former governor of Nasarawa State and Senator representing Nasarawa West Senatorial District, Alhaji Abdullahi Adamu, has said Nigerians were no longer at ease with President Goodluck Jonathan.

The Senator, who is seeking re-election to the Senate under the All Progressives Congress (APC) stated this at Kurudu village of the state during his campaign.

Oyo Guber: Alao-Akala ditches PDP, picks LP ticket

Alao Akala

Despite being defeated at the Oyo State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primaries, former governor of Oyo State, Adebayo Alao-Akala, seem determined to return to the Oyo Government House as he has defected to the Labour Party (LP) where he has reportedly been offered the party’s governorship ticket.

Daily Independent reports that a leader of LP in Oke-Ogun area of the state had told other gubernatorial aspirants, including Sharafadeen Alli, Nurudeen Akinyo, Kazeem Adedeji and Olu Abiala, to allow Alao-Akala get the ticket because of his war chest.

EXCLUSIVE! 2015: Seven Oyo State Commissioners Set To Dump Ajimobi Cabinet For Akala

As the political camp of former governor of Oyo State, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala continues to swell by the day in his new abode, Labour Party, no fewer than seven top members of the Senator Isiaka Ajimobi -led government have concluded all necessary arrangements to defect to the Labour Party.

Latest On Buhari’s Certificate: Desperation In Anticipation Of Defeat At The Jonathan’s Camp, A Can Of Worms Nigerians Should Be Ashamed Of – By Dr. Wumi Akintide

The debate currently going on whether or not a 4 star General has requisite qualifications to be certified as a candidate in the next election is a development that would come back to haunt Jonathan long after he loses the election on February 14. It is a development that can open a can of worms on the first Prime minister and most of the past Presidents of Nigeria from the North who were flag bearers of the same PDP and its predecessors like the NPC, the NPN and NRC. What qualification did Tafawa Balewa have to qualify him as the first Prime Minister of Nigeria? The same people raising the question should tell me what qualifications did Ahmadu Bello have to emerge as the pre and post- Independence leader of the Northern Peoples’ Congress and de facto leader of the whole country?