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I Remain PDP’s Candidate- Jimoh Ibrahim

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Former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Jimoh Ibrahim yesterday faulted the Court of Appeal verdict which nullified his candidacy as not having a ‘consequential order.”

Ibrahim described the Appeal Court judgment as “one day ruling”, adding that the Supreme Court would sit on the case today (Thursday)

“I have read the decision of the Court of Appeal delivered today (yesterday) without a consequential order. The ruling failed to specifically say that my name should be substituted by INEC.

“Since there is no consequential order directing INEC to do so, the judgement is therefore not binding on me and INEC cannot remove my name and as such I remain PDP candidate for Saturday’s election.

“But we are optimistic that we have nothing to lose as the Supreme Court sits on same case tomorrow. We shall get justice at the Supreme Court and if PDP wins Saturday’s election, we shall have our four-year mandate to rule Ondo State

“Let me advise the good people of Ondo State and my supporters nationwide not to abuse anyone or fight over this one day ruling …

“Mimiko will not succeed himself with Jegede. This is too sure as we continue with our work and remain in our great part, PDP. I love the great people of Ondo State and I thank you all for continuous support.”

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Ibrahim: I remain PDP candidate

Read How Election Candidate Bribes Elderly Men With Erectile Dysfunction Drugs To Secure Votes

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Elderly men in South Korea have allegedly been given erectile dysfunction drugs to buy their votes in legislative elections, prosecutors said Tuesday, announcing an investigation into the suspected breach. South Koreans go to the polls on Wednesday in an election already overshadowed by North Korean nuclear threats and economic difficulties.

The alleged vote-buying took place in Suwon, 30 kilometres (around 20 miles) south of the capital Seoul. “We have yet to verify the allegations. If confirmed, this could constitute a breach of election law,” the spokesman for Suwon Prosecutors’ Office told AFP.

Vote-buying in South Korea carries a sentence of up to five years in prison or a fine of 10 million won ($8,750). Erectile dysfunction drugs are a prescription medication in South Korea and prosecutors will investigate how the unnamed candidate was allegedly in possession of so many, the Dong-A Ilbo daily said.

Anyone found guilty of vote-buying risks being stripped of their election victory, while voters face fines of up to 50 times the value of the cash or gift they received in return for supporting the candidate.

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Kogi: INEC Confirms Bello As APC’s Candidate

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday said Alhaji Yahaya Bello is the APC governorship candidate for Saturday’s supplementary election.

He replaces the late Abubakar Audu, who died before the conclusion of the election process.

The INEC’s Deputy Director, Publicity, Mr Nick Dazang said: “They have sent the name of their replacement candidate, the runner-up in their primaries, that is Yahaya Bello, to the commission”.

The INEC spokesman assured the people of Kogi State that the commission is fully prepared to conduct both the Kogi Supplementary and Bayelsa governorship elections. Both polls are slated for Saturday,

According to him: “Commission is committed to conduct the two elections, that is why in respect of Kogi, in spite of what happened, we came out with public notice which invites the APC to submit its replacement candidate for the election”.

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Kogi Election: PDP Rejects Call For APC’s Candidate Substitution

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has kicked against an advice by the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Mr Abubakar Malami, to the All Progressives Congress (APC) that the party can substitute its late candidate in the Kogi State governorship election.

The opposition party also asked Mr Malami to “immediately vacate his office for harrying and misleading the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) into arriving at the decision”.

In a statement by the opposition party’s spokesman, Olisa Metuh, the party said it was shocked that “INEC, a supposedly independent electoral umpire, could allow itself to succumb to the antics of the APC by following the unlawful directive of an obviously partisan AGF to substitute a candidate in the middle of the ballot process”.

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Tanzania’s Ruling Party Candidate Declared Presidential Vote Winner

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Tanzania’s ruling party candidate, John Magufuli, won the presidential election, the National Electoral Commission announced on Thursday, after the opposition challenged the tallying process and demanded a recount.

National Electoral Commission Chairman Damian Lubuva told a news conference that Magufuli, a minister for public works, secured 58 percent of the votes, beating his main opposition rival, former Prime Minister Edward Lowassa who had 40 percent.

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Tension Heats Up As APC Picks Senate Presidency Candidate

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The criteria recently announced by the National Working Committee, NWC, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, on how the Senate President in the 8th Senate will emerge is generating ripples among senators.

Meanwhile, it was learnt last night that the meeting between the APC leadership and senators-elect where a consensus on the issue of the Senate President was to be resolved may have been shifted.

One of the two camps was said to have pressed for the shift because of the insufficiency of the support it was expecting to show to the party leadership. The APC NWC, at its meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, Tuesday night, had listed certain criteria which the next Senate president must possess.

Some of the criteria stipulated that the party’s candidate for the post must come from the geopolitical zone with the second highest number of votes after the North-West during the Presidential election held on March 28.

It also said that the next Senate president must not have any corruption charges hanging on his or her neck and should be one of the most ranking senators in the current Fourth Republic.

A senator privy to the meeting said the leadership of the party was mandated to, within three days, present the most eligible aspirant as consensus candidate for the post based on the listed criteria during inauguration next week.

The two leading contestants are Senators Bukola Saraki (Kwara Central) and Ahmad Lawan ( Yobe North ).

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Senate Presidency: I’ve No Preferred Candidate, Says Buhari

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The President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, has said that he has no preferred candidate for the post of senate presidency.

Buhari’s position was contained in a statement signed by the Director of Media and Publicity, APC Presidential Campaign Council, Mallam Garba Shehu, on Wednesday,

Buhari said he was prepared to work with any leader freely chosen by members of the House of Representatives and the Senate.

The statement quoted Buhari as saying, “I am prepared to work with the leaders that the House or Senate selects. It doesn’t matter who the persons are or where they are from.

“There is due process for the selection of leaders of the National Assembly and I will not interfere in that process.”

According to the statement, insinuations that Buhari was supporting a particular candidate were probably borne out of people’s expectations based on the way things happened in the past.

Buhari reminded Nigerians that change has truly come.

The President-elect also assured Nigerians that a new dispensation has come, adding that, “My administration does not intend to repeat the same mistakes made by previous governments.”

Indications emerged on Wednesday that the Peoples Democratic Party is divided over the candidate to support among three All Progressives senators contesting the senate presidency.

Investigations on Wednesday in Abuja showed that contrary to reports that the PDP senators were supporting Senator Ahmad Lawan, some members of the party were backing another candidate, Senator Bukola Saraki.

Besides Saraki (North-Central) and Lawan (North-East); Senator George Akume (Benue) is also contesting the senate presidency.

The APC has yet to zone the position and others including the speakership of the House of Representatives.

But it was gathered that some members of the APC caucus in the North-West, which was earlier reported to have endorsed Lawan, had started supporting Saraki.

In the PDP, among those supporting Lawan were loyalists of the Senate President, Senator David Mark, who had been tipped to be the rallying point of the party’s opposition against the APC.

But a crack seemed to have appeared in the PDP as some of the party’s senators-elect attended a meeting of those supporting Saraki at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja on Tuesday night.

The PDP senators-elect that attended the meeting included Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom; Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State and a former Ebonyi State Governor, Dr. Sam Egwu.

A source at the meeting, who pleaded anonymity, said that some PDP senators-elect were backing Saraki because it appeared the APC leaders were in support of Lawan.

The source stated, “For now, the PDP has not endorsed any candidate but some of us are in support of Saraki because the APC leaders appear to be supporting Lawan.”

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Tinubu Denies Endorsing Any Candidate For Lagos Speakership

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The former governor of Lagos State and national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) had denied endorsing any candidate as the next Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly.

Tinubu, who was reacting to rumours that he has anointed the former secretary of the party in the state, Wasiu Sanni-Eshinlokun to succeed Adeyemi Ikuforiji as the next Speaker of House, said he has no intention of endorsing anybody for the position.

Tinubu was speaking when he met some party leaders in his Bourdillon road, Ikoyi residence. He accused some individuals in the state of using his name for their selfish interests.

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APGA Guber Candidate In Abia Crashes APC Caucus Meeting

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The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Abia State, Alex Otti shocked many as he attended the All Progressives Congress (APC) caucus meeting in Abuja on Wednesday. He attended the meeting to solicit for the party’s support in Saturday’s re- run election in the state.

Otti held a closed- door meeting with some leaders of the APC before the caucus meeting started. Although the APC has a candidate in the re-run election, the race is between Otti and the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Okezie Ikpeazu.

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INEC Substitutes Borno PDP Candidate

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INEC) has substituted the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial candidate in Borno State, Alhaji Mohammed Imam, with Alhaji Gambo Lawan.

This was disclosed in a letter by the National Secretariat of commission in a letter with reference number INEC/LEG/DR/356/VOL.1/79.

Secretary to the commission, Ibrahim Bawa, signed the letter addressed to the Resident Electoral Commission of the Borno State ordering that the substitution should be effected. “In compliance to the order of the Federal High Court judgment in suit No.

FHC/ABJ/CS/1123/14 between Alhaji Gambo Lawan Vs. Alhaji Mohammed Imam & 2 others wherein the court ordered INEC to take all necessary steps and actions including the listing of the name of Alhaji Gambo Lawan as governorship candidate of the PDP for Borno state and to allow him contest,” the letter read.

The letter also directed that the name of Alhaji Gambo Lawan be included in the list of Governorship candidates for Borno State as candidate of the PDP.

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ADC Candidate Steps Down For Jonathan

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The Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Ambassador Mani Ahmed has stepped down for President Goodluck Jonathan, who is the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

This was announced in Abuja yesterday by the National Chairman of the party, Chief Ralph Nwosu, who said the ADC Presidential candidate and Vice Presidential candidate, Dr. Obianuju Uzohue, took the decision to enable Jonathan to continue his transformation agenda.

 Nwosu said, “Why Jonathan, Goodluck is an authentic leader struggling with challenges of nation building. Nigeria needs a president who does not have high need for power, an authentic personality who like all of us is struggling to make good with all the vulnerability and vagaries of our time. We need a man at the centre who can stay out of the way and allow the full architecture of governance come alive and take root across the country.
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