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PDP Back the Incumbent Delta Governor Okowa Second Race

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Former governor of Delta State, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, finally put to rest rumours of his alleged cease and desist to the All Progressives Congress when he hosted leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party and his successor, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, at his Warri residence on Saturday. At the meeting, Uduaghan and other top leaders of the PDP from Delta South Senatorial District passed a vote of confidence in Okowa, endorsing the governor for a second term in office, with a pledge to queue behind him for the 2019 governorship election in Delta. This was coming months after it was rumoured that Uduaghan had concluded plans to join the APC in pursuit of his senatorial ambition in 2019. The Saturday meeting was the first public PDP meeting that the ex-governor attended since he left office. Sources at the meeting told our correspondent on Sunday that the former governor said with the return of a former governor and leader of the party in the state, James Ibori, nobody was leaving the ...

President Buhari Is Now Part-Tume President. Says Fayose

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The Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari has now become a part-time and ceremonial President who is only descry during Jumat service at the Presidential Villa. Ekiti Sate Governor Ayodele Fayose says. According to his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the governor said on sunday, it was necessary for Nigerians to be properly informed about the well-being of their President. Fayose, who said Buhari, like any old man, was susceptible to illness, said the President would do well to go and take proper care of his health and allow the Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo, to constitutionally act as the President. “But it is doubtful if those cabals that are obviously running their own Presidency within President Buhari’s Presidency will allow him to take a long vacation, probably outside Nigeria to take care of himself,” Fayose said.