October 23, 2014

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OUSE of Representatives Speaker Aminu Tambuwal’s yet unclear political future has sent panic into the Presidency and the Peoples Democratic Party

(PDP). They are worried about how to handle Tambuwal, should he defect to the All Progressives Congress(APC) to vie for Sokoto State governor. The Presidency and the PDP are believed to be planning to take control of the House once Tambuwal moves to APC. In line with the agenda of the Presidency and the PDP,

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Ceasefire announcement ‘hasty’

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ALKS were on yesterday in N’Djamena, the Chadian capital, between a Federal Government team and Boko Haram representatives. But the shape of the talks, those in the teams and the venue were shrouded in secrecy. Chadian President Idris Derby is believed to be involved but top diplomatic sources could only confirm that they

From Yusuf Alli, Abuja

were talking. They had no knowledge of the extent. The Chadian talks are a follow-up to the initial decision in Saudi Arabia last week after which hope was raised on the release of the abducted 219 Chibok schoolgirls. Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh announced a ceasefire.

But attacks by suspected sect members followed last Friday’s announcement. Further clashes initiated by the sect’s fighters also occurred. Besides, the military is said to be probing the reported abduction of no fewer than 40 women in Madagali, Adamawa State. “I sense Nigeria rushed to Continued on page 4

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APC governors to confront Jonathan as cash crisis bites Consensus candidate ‘okay’

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From Adekunle Jimoh, Ilorin

LL Progressives Congress (APC) governors demanded yesterday an emergency meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan over the cash crisis that is crippling the states. Besides, the governors said at a meeting in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, that they had not endorsed any aspirant as their presidential candidate. They supported the emergence of “a consensus candidate or any other candidate in so far as it is in tandem with the party’s internal democracy”. The meeting was attended by Governors Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara), Rauf Aregbesola (Osun), Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo), Abdulaziz Yari (Zamfara), Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano), Ibrahim Gaidam (Yobe), Chibuike Amaechi (Rivers) and Rochas Okorocha (Imo). The governors were worried that allocation from the Federal purse keeps crashing, even as the central government says the country is not broke. Many states, they said, may not be able to pay their workers. “On consensus, our forum is in full support of consensus as one of the ways to produce our presidential candidate or any candidate in the party for as long as it is done with regards to respect for internal democracy. There will be no imposition of candidate in our party”, the chairman of the forum Owelle Okorocha, said, reading the communiqué. He went on: “Our forum has not adopted any candidate, neither has our Governors’ Forum WHEN WILL THE CHIBOK GIRLS adopted any candidate, KIDNAPPED ON but we shall encourage APRIL 15 BE

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•From right: Aregbesola, Shettima, Ajimobi and Ameachi at the meeting...yesterday

We refuse to accept that this nation is broke... if the nation is not broke, what is due to states as revenue should be paid to the states. This idea of cutting down what should go to states does not in any way promote democracy...We do not know why our colleagues in the PDP are not talking of this matter... it is either they are not affected or somehow they are getting something from the back door.

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