Pics: GEJ, VP Sambo & PDP Chairman toast to Ekiti state victory

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Pictures show President Jonathan, Vice President Namadi Sambo and PDP Chairman Adamu Muazu toasting to PDP's triumph in Ekiti state. Also present were some people of the National Working Committee of the PDP.  See more pictures following the break.

PDP crisis: Jonathan axes youth minister

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The former Minister of Youth Development,
 Alhaji Inuwa Abdulkadir

The frosty relationship between President Goodluck Jonathan and five northern governors on Monday claimed its victim  as the President ordered the sack of the Minister of Youth Affairs, Alhaji Inuwa Abdulkadir.

Our correspondents learnt that the minister was sacked, among other reasons, because of his continuous loyalty to the Sokoto State Governor, Alhaji Aliyu Wamakko.

Until his appointment, Abdulkadir was the  state Attorney-General and Commissioner of Justice in the Wamakko administration.

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Extravagant lifestyle: PDP Spent More Than ₦92b To Rig 2011 Election ––Jonathan

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It has been revealed that the amount spent by the Peoples Democratic Party to rig to 2011 elections is more than what striking lecturers are asking for to return sanity to Nigeria's university system, but the government is not willing to do what is right.

“To meet ASUU demands will deny the party opportunity to stash more money from the national coffers for 2015 election.”

A chieftain of the newly-registered All Progressives Congress in Niger State, Vatsa Jonathan, has accused the Federal Government of insincerity in its current face-off with ASUU.

“What the varsity teachers are asking for is a far cry to what the party spent to rig elections in 2011,” he said while speaking in Minna on Saturday.

He also described the Governor Gabriel Suswan and Senator Anyim Pius Anyim-led government negotiating committees as a bunch of unserious people, just as they were earlier described by ASUU leadership.

PDP Goes Spiritual To Remove ACN Governor

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The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has described the recent prayer session organised by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to stop the second term bid of Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, as a mockery of religion.

ACN called on PDP to first of all seek God’s forgiveness for the eight years’ sins it committed against the electorate in Ogun State rather than embarking on spiritual warfare against Amosun.

An online statement signed by the state ACN Publicity Secretary, Sola Lawal, at the weekend, warned PDP to desist from such prayer, stressing that God does not honour such spiritual blackmail shrouded in falsehood.

The youths’ wing of the Engineer Bayo Dayo-led chapter of state chapter of PDP last Thursday launched a spiritual warfare to enable the party defeat Amosun in the 2015 election.

Oshiomhole begged to join PDP but was turned down – Metuh

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ABUJA—NATIONAL leadership of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, said Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, begged to be a member of the party severally, but his request was turned down, just as it urged him to tell Nigerians how many times he begged.

PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, in a statement,  said  the Edo State governor, in 2007, contacted the PDP for its gubernatorial ticket to run as governor of the state, but the request was rejected on the ground that if adhered to, the party’s zoning arrangement would be distorted.