VALENTINE: Feb 14 polls not to slight Nigerians - INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday said it had not fixed the Presidential and National Assembly elections on February 14 to rub Nigerians of the joy derivable from the lovers’ day.

The Chief Press Secretary to the commission’s Chairman, Mr Kayode Idowu, said in Abuja that the election date was a coincidence.

He said: “When the commission was taking that decision, it never even occurred to the leaders of the commission that it was Valentine’s Day. But then, it is a day for showing love and if we can show love that will discourage people from fomenting violence.

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Jonathan dismisses MEND’s endorsement of Buhari

President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, dismissed the alleged endorsement of the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC,

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Buhari takes campaign to Jonathan’s home base

All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), yesterday, took his campaign to the home base of President Goodluck Jonathan in Bayelsa and Rivers States

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Why Obasanjo’s at war with Jonathan, by Owie

Former Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Rowland Owie, has alleged that the reason former President Olusegun Obasanjo was at war with the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan was because the latter refused to be an errand boy to the former President.

He said that Nigerians were suffering today due to the faulty foundation laid by the former President.


He said: “The former president should apologize to Nigerians rather than blame the administration of President Jonathan which is doing very well for Nigerians.

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2015: APC’ll win on first ballot – Ngige

The senator representing Anambra Central and the South East zonal coordinator of All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign Council, Senator Chris Ngige, said yesterday

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Don’t blame Jonathan for Nigeria’s woes — Oba Akiolu

The Oba of Lagos, Oba Railwan Akiolu, yesterday, said that President Goodluck Jonathan should not be blamed for the problems of Nigeria.

Akiolu said this while receiving Jonathan at his palace in Lagos.

He said that many of the problems in the country pre-dated the Jonathan administration.

The President was in Lagos State for the flag off of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s, presidential campaign at the Tafawa Balewa Square.

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