Oyegun: Tinubu did not make me APC National Chairman

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, John Oyegun has said a National Leader of the party, Bola Tinubu was not responsible for his emergence as the ruling party’s National Chairman.
Oyegun made the remark in an interview with Vanguard while responding to a question that some people are alleging that he has not been fair to those who assisted him to emerge National Chairman of the party, especially, Bola Tinubu.
The APC Chairman insisted that everybody in the party and not a particular individual aided his emergence.
According to Oyegun, “Everybody assisted me to this position and I am grateful to all of them. The only thing is my personality and integrity; I don’t joke with these two things because they are the only currency that I have and I will defend them at any time.
“I don’t believe one particular person solely assisted me to this position, everybody assisted me and someday, the story of how I became chairman of APC will be told.
“You will then see that everybody did assist me to become National Chairman. This means that I am there for everybody. I don’t belong to any camp in the APC. I belong to all members of APC high and below.”

RIVERS GOVT CALLS FOR DISSOLUTION OF INEC UNDER YAKUBU

Rivers state government has called for dissolution of the Independent National Electoral commission, INEC under the leadership of Professor Mahmood Yakubu.

Commissioner for Information and Communications, Dr Austin Tam-George in a statement Tuesday said the national assembly and the federal government should work towards disbandment of the electoral body.

He accused the commission of allegedly conniving with the leadership of the All Progressive Congress, APC to postpone the rerun elections slated for Saturday indefinitely.

The government further enjoined the international community to assist in mounting what it termed diplomatic pressure on the federal government to give Nigerians a credible electoral body.

His words, “The government of Rivers State and people of Rivers State are shocked by the bare-faced collusion between INEC and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to subvert democracy in the state”.

“It is completely unacceptable that Rivers State would continue to be denied full representation in the National Assembly due to the incompetence and malpractices orchestrated by INEC”.

"We call on the presidency and the National Assembly to act urgently in the national interest to disband INEC as presently constituted, for its incompetence and open partisanship."

“We call on the international community to initiate and maintain diplomatic pressure on the federal government, which continues to frustrate the independence of INEC and the evolution of democratic diversity in Nigeria”.

“The people of Rivers state will continue to resist and defeat the medieval authoritarianism of the APC”

Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/07/rivers-govt-calls-dissolution-inec-yakubu/

I WILL PROBE OSHIOMHOLE WHEN I BECOME GOVERNOR – IZE-IYAMU

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate in forthcoming governorship election in Edo State, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has sworn that the incumbent governor, Adams Oshiomhole’s administration must be probed if he wins the September 10 polls.
Ize-Iyamu further challenged the governor to probe his (Ize-Iyamu) eight years in office as Chief of Staff and Secretary to the State Government.
He was speaking during his campaign in Uromi, Esan North East Local Government Area of the state yesterday.
He said, “I call on Adams Oshiomhole to probe my time in government and look at everything that I did.
“Let him do it because by the grace of God, when I am governor, I will probe him. I will probe him; every kobo that has come to Edo State must be accounted for. That is his fear; that is why he can no longer sleep.”
Oshiomhole had thrown critical comments on Ize-Iyamu and PDP chieftain, Tony Anenih during the APC’s candidate, Godwin Obaseki, campaign in Edo South on Friday, alleging that they had contributed in under-developing the state.
Oshiomhole further said the PDP candidate was seeking to become governor by all means in order to avoid prosecution.
But Ize-Iyamu said, “Adams Oshiomhole believes that the more he attacks, the more he can hide the truth. He should know that it is not by insulting Ize-Iyamu or Chief Anenih.
“Only recently in a Catholic Church, he met Chief Anenih and he apologized to him on the alter to forgive him. Days after, he was abusing Chief Anenih.
“He says Pastor Ize-Iyamu is bad; Ize-Iyamu is useless. When he appointed Pastor Ize-Iyamu DG (Director-General) of his campaign, he did not know that time.
“When he made him national vice chairman of his party, he did not know then. Now that Ize-Iyamu has left him, Ize-Iyamu is suddenly bad.”

Source: http://dailypost.ng/2016/07/23/will-probe-oshiomhole-become-governor-ize-iyamu/

MELAYE VS TINUBU : SARAKI WADES IN

ABUJA - STRONG indications emerged Wednesday that the peace and reconciliation was under way between the Chairman, Senate Committee on Women Affairs, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, All Progressives Congress, APC and her colleague, Senator Dino Melaye, APC, Kogi West as Senate President Bukola Saraki has intervened.
Vanguard gathered that Senator Saraki's intervention was among others, to nip in the bud, the lingering crisis between the two senators of the same political party, the APC.
A source told Vanguard that in his desirous move to end the war of words, Senate President Saraki yesterday met with both Tinubu and Melaye separately for a period of two hours each.
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Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/07/melaye-tinubu-faceoff-saraki-wades-meet-feuding-senators-separately/