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Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has accused President Buhari of planning to rig the forthcoming elections in Rivers State on Saturday.

  

The Governor said; “Only a President with ulterior political motives will elevate political violence above the kind of genocide carried out by Fulani herdsmen in Benue State.”

A PDP chieftain, Senator Buruji Kashamu has defended the president of the Federation, Muhammadu Buhari saying his corruption war is not targeted at his party PDP, but to all. In a recent interview reported by Clifford Ndujihe, when asked to address the rumours that the corruption war was targeted at the people of his party, the Senator said;

I am shocked and embarrassed by comments that the trial of the people who  allegedly  misappropriated money that was meant to buy weapons in the war against insurgency is a political witch-hunt of members of my party, the PDP. The masterminds of that crime wanted the war to escalate and if that had happened unchecked, the insurgency would have spread to other regions of the federation.

Donald Trump ordered Secret Service agents to remove a number of black students from his Georgia rally on Monday evening, according to The Des Moines Register.

Before Trump spoke in Valdosta, Ga., about 30 black students who were quietly standing on the top of the bleachers were told to leave the GOP front-runner’s event.

The newly-appointed national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ali Modu Sheriff, yesterday during a thanksgiving service organised to mark the victory of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu at the Supreme Court, in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, said he is ready to lead his party members back to Aso Rock and other leading positions in the country come 2019.

Mr. Sheriff a founding member of the All Progressives Congress who defected to the PDP in 2014 ahead of national elections in 2015 said;

“We are here today, we are starting from here, and we are going to Aso Rock, Insha Allah by 2019.  We will head from here and we will do it together. This my long cap is prepared to lead my colleagues and brothers to Aso Rock, Insha Allah.

“By the grace of Allah nothing will deter this party from going to Aso Rock in 2019. By the time we put down our master-plan I am sure they (APC) will go back to where they came from. And Insha Allah, nothing will stop us.”

A former Governor of Ekiti State, Niyi Adebayo who ruled the State from 1999 to 2003 has said the current Governor of the State, Ayodele Fayose has done nothing but to make mockery of the respected State. According to Niyi, nobody in Nigeria is happy with the way Ekiti is being run by the State Governor. He also went ahead to say, Ekiti already has an airport and wonders what Fayose’s government wants to gain from starting a construction of another one. Niyi said all this while speaking with journalists yesterday in Ekiti.

Late Abubakar Audu’s running mate, James Faleke who is in court challenging the decision of his party APC to make Yahaya Bello the Governor of Kogi State after Audu died suddenly, has said the way the new Governor of the State is running it is not the way he should.