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Speaking at the National Executive Council meeting of the People’s Democratic Party in Abuja on Tuesday, the party’s presidential flag bearer, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar averred that more Nigerians were killed in the last four years than ever before. He also stated that about  14 million more Nigerians became jobless as a result of what he called the “incompetence” of the All Progressives Congress. Speaking on the postponement of the election, Atiku said “I am sure we can all relate to the losses and burden on our citizens who travelled to various destinations for the exercise. This is in addition to the burden on election personnel willing to sacrifice in furtherance of our democracy”. Noting that his party’s opponent “will stop at nothing to retain power”, Atiku said “our goal is not to gain power for our own sake, but for the people of our country who have been so hard hit by four years of APC cluelessness and incompetence. Four years which have seen 14 million more of our peo

Olamiju Alao-Akala, son of the former Governor of Oyo State Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala, has been advised to honourably vacate his seat as the Chairman, Ogbomoso North Local Government by the Legislative Council of the local government. This was contained in a letter addressed to Olamiju, dated 18th February, 2019 and signed by the Head of Local Government Administration of Ogbomoso North Local Government, Mr. M.F Afolabi. Where it was stated that the resolution to releave Olamiju Akala of his position was arrived at plenary of the local government's Legislative Council on Friday 15th February, 2019. Copy of the letter was made available to our reporter. Recall Olamiju Akala, who is currently serving as Chairman of Ogbomoso North Local Government under the ruling party in the state the All Progressives Congress (APC), was sighted on his father's campaign train last week in Ogbomoso.  Akala is the gubernatorial candidate of the Action Democratic Party (ADP).

The Peoples Democratic Party, Osun State chapter has come heavily on the All Progressives Congress in Osun State and their lies and fabrications in order to deceive the Police authorities in the state.  They are again trying to implicate our Party  members, the PDP and Police authority   by making them enmeshed in frivolous arrest of members of the opposition parties based on unconfirmed allegations of attacks and other untoward activities. The State Chairman of the party in Osun State, Hon. Olasoji Adagunodo made a reference to a petition written against PDP members in Ila local government area of the state by APC who brought about 12 people to Asubiaro hospital claiming that PDP members attacked and injured them. They wore bandages on their legs, arms, heads and other parts of their bodies but a closer observation revealed that all their claims of attacks, injuries etc, are mere frame up and there were no injuries on the entire 12 people who  carried bandages all over

The text of a press conference held in Uyo by the Forum of All Political Parties in Akwa Ibom State, following the postponement of the 16 February 2019 elections Gentlemen of the Press, As you may all be aware, the general elections that were to kick off on Saturday, 16 February 2019 have been moved forward by one week. The rescheduling came as a surprise and with a huge cost to us; we were ready as a party for the elections. INEC has said the elections were postponed to get the logistics right in order to deliver a free, fair and transparent elections. In light of the explanation by INEC, we as Political Parties have accepted the cost incurred as a necessary sacrifice for the good of our democracy. Let us take the advantage of this pause on the road to thank God whose grace and protection have seen us thus far in the Akwa Ibom Project. We want to also thank the good people of Akwa Ibom in general and members and supporters of our parties in particular who have remain