We deliver your news brief for Tuesday, October 14, 2014.
The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has asserted that any Nigerian who decides to vote for PDP in the 2015 elections could be seen as one of those conniving with the party to sell the rights of Northern Nigerian people.
To this end, the forum said the Northern People have lost confidence in the Northern Governors who in 2011 elections entered a secret deal with President Jonathan to contest that election without necessarily telling their constituencies about their unbecoming acts.
The Forum Secretary Professor Ango Abdullahi who stated this during an interview at his office in Bauchi said that the secret deal was later confirmed by President Goodluck Jonathan himself.
Prof Pat Utomi, the 2011 Presidential Candidate of the Social Democratic Mega Party (SDMP), on Tuesday said that he would contest in 2015 if asked to do so.
Utomi spoke in an interview in Lagos.
Utomi, currently a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was also the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in 2007.
Utomi said that he was willing to run in any capacity if his party and his people asked him to do so.
Ebonyi State Governor, Martin Elechi, on Tuesday maintained that the people of the state want the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, to succeed him because he has the capacity to do the job.
Speaking with State House correspondents in Abuja, Elechi said Chukwu has not shown any interest for the position, but the people in the state are appealing to him to come and take up the position in 2015.
He said: “First let me put the facts straight, the Minister of Health has no ambition to become governor or hold any other political office but we the people of Ebonyi State have assessed him and we think he is a good material to do the job. So we are appealing to him, he is not canvassing, but we want to conscript him to answer the call of his people.”
The Bauchi State Chapter of Buhari Campaign Organization on Tuesday realised over N6 million on the spot at a sensitization rally to purchase an All Progressive Congress presidential form for former head of state, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd).
The Bauchi State Coordinator of The Nigerian Solution Network Group, Dr. Danjuma Dabo, told the over 10,000 audience at the solidarity rally in support of Buhari that the organization would source for fund to buy nomination form and foot campaign bills for the ex-Nigerian leader.
Describing Buhari as honest, committed and patriotic Nigeria, Dabo charged the APC supporters to contribute money for his campaign activities.
The former acting Governor of Adamawa State, Alhaji Ahmadu Fintiri, has vowed that “the legislature, as the defender of democracy, will exercise its constitutional duties of ridding Adamawa of bad governance once again without hesitation”.
Fintiri stated this during the plenary session on Tuesday when he addressed members of the state House of Assembly on his resumption as the Speaker.
Presiding over the day’s plenary, the returnee Speaker told the members that “as I happily resume my duties, as the Honourable Speaker once again after a brief but action-packed stint as the acting Governor of Adamawa State, I thank honourable colleagues for the overwhelming co-operation I have enjoyed as your ambassador in the executive arm”.
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