Obasanjo's Exit Is A Fatal Blow To PDP — Kwankwaso

The Governor of Kano state, Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, has recently described the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a dying elephant and said that Olusegun Obasanjo’s defection is a fatal blow to the party.

The Governor of Kano state, Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso

Kwankwaso claimed this on February 23, 2015, while speaking with newsmen, Nigerian Tribune reports.

Buhari Is Too Frail To Rule, Says Fayose

The Governor of Ekiti state, Ayodele Fayose, has attacked the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) again, this time saying he is too weak to rule the country.


Fayose said this in Abuja on Monday at a press briefing, adding that Buhari spoke in an interview with foreign journalists in a suite at the Transcorps Hilton Hotel, Abuja, and not the in UK as is being portrayed by his campaigners.

Jimi Agbaje Blasts Fashola's Alleged Claims On Unpaid Taxes

 
The Peoples Democratic Party Lagos gubernatorial candidate, Jimi Agbaje posted on his Facebook page this morning a response to Governor Fashola’s comments that his company only paid his taxes after he was publicly called out.
The Honourable Governor B.R. Fashola (SAN) has lied again and I think it’s time to address his repeated blunder.

Governor Mimiko Shows His Other Side

Popularly called “Iroko” by his admirers, Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State is an enigma on the Nigerian political scene.

Mimiko can best be described as a political cat with nine lives, having benefited from Nigeria’s democracy since its return in 1999. The 60-year old former medical practitioner was Ondo state government’s secretary from 1999 to 2003 and minister of power from 2003 to 2007. In 2007 Mimiko decamped to the Labour Party (LP) from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to contest the Ondo state governorship seat, which he initially lost, but he was installed by the courts in 2009.

Fayose Shows Proof That Buhari's London Interview Was Fake

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state has released proof to back his claim that Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress,(APC) wasn’t interviewed in London recently Nigerian Bulletin reports.
Addressing journalists Monday February 23 in Abuja, Governor Fayose dismissed the current picture of a purported interview in London of Buhari, describing it as fake, a fabrication on the part of the APC designed to deceive Nigerians.

According to Vanguard, Governor Fayose said the picture was taken in suite 881 at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja contrary to claims that they came from an interview in London, adding, “the picture which was widely published by the media was taken in suite 881 at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja.”
The Governor yesterday took some journalists to the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja to prove that the photo of Gen Buhari, having an interview with Kemi Fadojutimi on ‘All Eyes on Africa’ TV show was actually conducted in Abuja and not in London like his media aides claimed. He compared the sofa, paintings, table lamp, the flower vase, the lighting points and DSTV magazine in the suite with what was published in the papers.

Atiku Challenges Police Over Killing Of ABU Professor

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Sunday challenged the Nigeria Police to provide reasonable explanations on the circumstances that led to the murder of Prof. Ahmed Falaki of the Ahmad Bello University, Zaria.
This was disclosed in a statement by his media office in Abuja, The Nation reports.
The professor of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria was killed after he had been mistaken for a Boko Haram insurgent.

Atiku Abubakar

The former Vice President said the explanation given by the police on the circumstances that led to the death of Prof. Falaki, is an embarrassment to the police.
According to him, the explanation that has been given so far on how Falaki died under police custody falls short of logical assimilation.

Liberia Lifts Curfew, Opens Borders After Curbing Ebola

Liberia has officially reopened its border with Sierra Leone and other African nations, and lifted its nationwide curfews after several months of closure due to the Ebola outbreak, the BBC reports.

Health officials transport an Ebola victim

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Sunday ordered the lifting of the nationwide Ebola curfew put in place in August to prevent the further spread of the virus. Sirleaf also ordered the opening of the country’s borders with its West African neighbours.