Today’s Daily Brief: Gov. Dickson insists Bayelsa PDP isn’t divided, Party Leader says only APGA can win Lagos for GEJ, Emeka Wogu is still running for gov. in Abia, and more

The immediate past Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu, has said he is still in the Abia governorship race contrary to speculations in certain quarters that he has given up his ambition as a result of an alleged truce among aspirants of Ukwa-Ngwa extraction to produce a consensus candidate.

Wogu, who made the clarifications in a press conference at his Aba country home on Saturday, said there was never a time any meeting was held among governorship aspirants from Ukwa-Ngwa for the purpose of producing a consensus candidate.

He described as  bogus and deceptive campaign strategy, the claim by some aspirants that they had been endorsed by the state governor.

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Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson has said the Peoples Democratic Party in the state is not divided.

He described the PDP in the state as one peaceful, united and focused family under the leadership of President Goodluck Jonathan and himself, whom he said were working together for the good of the state and the nation.

The Governor, who made this known in a statement on Sunday by his Chief Press Secretary, Daniel Iworiso-Markson, pointed out that the PDP was working collectively and rallying the needed support for Jonathan and the party to achieve maximum success in next year’s general elections.

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Prof. Yusufu Obaje, the former State House Chaplain, said that none of the credentials of the aspirants clamouring for the presidency measured up to that of President Jonathan.

Obaje said this while delivering a homily at the inauguration of the Civil Chaplaincy Ministry Nigeria, a civil society group, on Sunday in Abuja.

He tasked the Ministry to spread God’s word in schools, hospitals, prisons and Nigeria at large.

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Aggrieved Ondo State Peoples Democratic Party aspirants for the positions of State House of Assembly, Federal House of Representatives and the Senate have declared their readiness to work against the party in the 2015 general elections.

This, according to the party members, is to protest the practice of handpicking and imposing politicians on residents of the state.

The Chairman, Ondo PDP Aspirants Forum and a contestant for the House of Representatives, Mr. Femi Adekanmbi, told journalists in Abuja that the party should be allowed to conduct its primaries without interference if it must record success in the forthcoming elections.

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But we APGA are purely, call it non-indigenes, call it outsiders, are the only ones who can push in, with our people, with our votes, with our population. Lagos has got 5 – 6 million votes but we haven’t gotten up to 2 million votes since the election started; which shows that non-indigenes are not voting, it’s the same Yorubas.

And they are voting one direction. So forget the PDP you are seeing, you are only seeing people who are struggling for political position at the national level. They know that they will not win (governorship election) but let them get the ticket so that they can negotiate minister at the federal level. They know that they cannot push away themselves inside the same river. The main Yorubas are there so those who are outsiders know they don’t have the capacity to take over. Except they combine with outsiders which they are not keen on.

Today, in the PDP (Lagos) state executive, there is no Igbo man there, Hausa man they just gave them few minor role to balance issue. Ordinarily non-indigenes and outsiders should be the brain driving PDP if it must make a case in Lagos State.

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