Afam4eva:
There's no federal character in those private stations. It's a business enterprise, so they employ the best or at least the better.

But used federal character to select the best from each tribe.

Jamey Maxwell: Me sef don tyre oooh. When will nta be like cnn or bbc?

That is even too much for now, they should reach the level of Channels TV, Galaxy TV etc that are local TV first. My state local tv station(B.C.O.S) here in Ib is far better almost in all aspects.

NTA needs to grow up

Afam4eva: NTA is still living in the past. Their pictures of 2013 looks like something that was filmed before NIgeria gained independence. That's what you get when you employ federal character in an industry that is supposed to be managed by technocrats. If we want to move forward as a Nation, we must do away with this disease called "Federal character".

"Federal Character"? I don't think so.
I blame the management team which indirectly is the federal government. Don't think outstanding television stations too don't practice the federal character thing to an extent. Channels TV, Galaxy TV, AIT also practice federal character if you take note but are well managed because they are private.
The country is so complex that if you don't practice federal character those who are not represented will term such station as a tribal one. Those stations I listed up there have workers: presenters, journalist, engineers from all major tribes if you do really watch them. They perform better despite using federal character because those managing them are intellectuals.
Not that I fancy whatever federal character, but if they are to be used they should be used wisely.

Ever since we(Ibadan) handed it over to Nigeria, it has gotten worse
Imagine the first TV station in Africa now the poorest TV station

Thanks to Awo for bringing TV to Africa sha

The boss of Africa

Ekiti before Oyo

The official Twitter handle of Ekiti State Government, @ekitistategov,  is one with the highest number of following among the states that have accounts on the social service in Nigeria.

A search on the site on Tuesday revealed that the handle, which is the only verified official state government Twitter handle in Nigeria, has 8, 707 followers and has since been a platform where the government of the state keeps citizens aware of its activities. Its Facebook fan page is also the one with the highest following – with 9, 462 fans.

Coming a distant second is the official handle of the Lagos State Government, @followlasg,  which boasts a Twitter following of 1,175. On Facebook, Lagos State also trails Ekiti  from behind with a fan base of 8, 412 followers.

Oyo State holds the third spot with 1, 024 followers as it engages citizens with its handle @oyostategovt.

Meanwhile, the official Twitter handles of the governments of Adamawa and Jigawa states have never been active since they were created many months back, findings by our correspondent also revealed.

A check on social network shows that @jigawa1, the official handle of Jigawa State Government, was created on September 6, 2012.

However, eight months down the line, the handle has never sent out a tweet. Rather than engage the citizens of the state via the handle, the social media team of the state chose to follow a parody account of English football club, Manchester United, @unitedupdates. It,  however, finds it good to follow the handles of four media organisations.

Twenty-four citizens of the state, who decided to subscribe to the tweets of the dormant handle,  are still waiting for the day the administration of Governor Sule Lamido will deem it fit to make the account active.

Adamawa State virtually has yet to make any meaningful engagement with the citizenry via the social media. Apart from the fact that its Twitter handle, @AdamawaStateGov, launched on the micro-blogging service on May 7, 2012, has never been active, it's Facebook is no better. The Facebook fan page, which boasts a following of 69 fans was last updated on August 8, 2012.

A check on the social service on Tuesday shows that a handful of state governments have yet to deem it fit to use a Twitter handle. For instance, none could be traced to Osun, Kogi, Taraba, Yobe, and Zamfara states.

For instance, a search through Twitter returned no result for an official handle for Osun State while the Twitter plug-in on the official website of the state, www.osunstateng.com, directed our correspondent to the Twitter Help Centre rather than a Twitter account.

It is worthy of note that rather than creating official handles, some state governments simply create the handles for their respective governors and integrate the accounts on their websites and use them as official state government handles.

For example, the Ondo State Government refused to open an official Twitter account for the state government but rather chose to make use of the Twitter handle of the state governor, Olusegun Mimiko, @OlusegunMimiko. Such decisions usually make it difficult to transfer such Twitter handles to successive administrations in such states.

Lagos and Ekiti states are some of the states that separated the Twitter handle of the state government from that of the state governor. Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola, for instance, has the handle, @tundefashola, while its  state government tweets via @followlasg. With this,  the next administration after Governor Fashola can carry on with the social media engagement with the citizens of Lagos State rather than form a new handle and start from the scratch.

A digital media expert, Sola Fagorusi, argues that it was high time states with no Twitter handles created one to bring governance closer to the people. He explains that with a handful of tech-savvy members of staff of the state governor's media teams, they can kick start an enriching engagement on the micro-blogging service.

Fagorusi says, "State governments stand to benefit a lot from the use of a very popular social network like Twitter. Governance is about service and it's wrong to serve people without giving them feedback or wait till when there is pressure or a crisis to do so. Twitter offers them state governments the opportunity to connect with citizens in real time and it also gives them that very rare opening for feedback in a public square."

http://mobile.punchng.com/output.php?link=http://www.punchng.com/i-punch/on-twitter-ekiti-leads-the-pack/

Cassava bread is a Nigerian innovation in bakery.
Nigeria’s former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has begun a mission to introduce African countries to Nigeria’s innovation in bakery, Cassava Bread.
Mr. Obasanjo, a goodwill ambassador for the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, IITA, recently took the bread to Tanzania where he publicly munched the bread with the President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Mrisho Jakaya Kikwete.
Former President Benjamin Mkapa of the United Republic of Tanzania also ate the bread for the first time. The leaders supported the innovation, noting that it would bring several benefits to the continent.
The 40 per cent cassava bread was first developed by IITA in Nigeria, as part of efforts to boost the utilization of cassava and create market for farmers.
President Kikwete after inaugurating the IITA Science Building in Dar es Salaam on Monday commended IITA for the bread technology, saying that the bread had an “excellent” taste.
“There is no difference between this bread and the normal bread we are used to,” he added.
Mr. Obasanjo encouraged the Tanzania President to promote the use of cassava in confectionaries in his country to
transform agriculture. He noted that the use of cassava flour in bread would stimulate the demand for the root crop, create jobs and, more importantly, make farmers proud.
Mr. Obasanjo, in 2002 initiated a policy on 10 percent inclusion in bread under “the Presidential Initiative on Cassava,” program. The program which was implemented by IITA and national partners, drove the demand for cassava, increased productivity by about 10 million tons in 6 years, and made Nigeria the top world producer of cassava.

http://premiumtimesng.com/news/134415-obasanjo-exports-cassava-bread-to-tanzania.html

^^^
Bayelsa and Ebonyi should be the only two states under PDP by then

Africa's youngest fresh boss
It's your boy whizzy....


Youñg maney fresh maney

By: Edegbe Odemwingie, Jonathan Nda-Isaiah on May 13, 2013 - 7:17am

Coming out of a high-level meeting with PDP top echelon, the Senate President insists on the inclusion of members of the National Assembly in the PDP National Executive Committee(NEC). EDEGBE ODEMWINGIE and JONATHAN NDA-ISAIAH report alongside other key developments in the Senate last week.

The self-proclaimed largest party in Africa, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has been engulfed in a leadership crisis that is threatening to decimate the party’s ranks in the lead up to the 2015 general elections and beyond. Bamanga Tukur, the party chairman is desperately fighting to retain his seat. President Goodluck Jonathan is under serious pressure from PDP governors to fire Tukur. The relationship between Tukur and the PDP governors, tagged “rebels” led by Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, has been everything but cordial. Although the governors have told the president to fire Tukur, he is yet to do so because of the current structure of the PDP’s hierarchy, which will produce Amaechi’s candidate as interim PDP boss in the event of Tukur being forced out of office.

Tukur’s problem started when he and the governor of Adamawa State, Alhaji Murtala Nyako, clashed over the control of the party in the state. Tukur, who hails from Adamawa, has openly endorsed his son as a possible successor to Nyako and runs a faction of the PDP in the state to realise his dream.

The governor is also alleged to be grooming one of his sons for the job while Tukur prefers his own son, a former member of the House of Representatives.

The fear of the unknown has made the PDP governors pitch tent with Nyako and every effort made to reconcile them has so far been to no avail. The clash has now been brought to the national scene and Tukur is being asked to go. Tukur has toured the geo-political zones to reconcile various factions of the party but the governors would not budge. To follow the acclaimed “Mr Fix It”, Chief Tony Anenih, the party’s BoT chairman began a fresh tour of the PDP-controlled states to win the governors back to the PDP.

 

Mark Wades In

Last week, the Senate President, David Mark, told the visiting PDP BoT chairman, Chief Tony Anenih, that all warring factions in the party need to close ranks and work together in order to effectively implement the party’s agenda and that the disagreement in the party was unhealthy and capable of derailing the programme of the party.

Mark requested the inclusion of members of the National Assembly in the PDP’s National Executive Committee (NEC), saying as elected representatives of the people, the lawmakers can make better contributions for the benefits of the citizenry.

According to Mark, the lawmakers are true patriots committed to making good laws that reflects the true state of the Nigerian people.

Mark said: “The National Assembly is the engine room of democracy and government and therefore, should be given its pride of place and we pledge the commitment and loyalty of the lawmakers to continue to work for the peace, unity and progress of the nation’’.

Meanwhile, Anenih appreciated the National Assembly members for their patriotism and loyalty to the party, saying the bills and motions churned out from the parliament have helped to keep Nigeria together.

Issues discussed at the parley included party affairs, the executive and legislative relationship as well as security challenges facing the nation.

 

2013 Budget Impasse

President Goodluck Jonathan’s request to amend the N4.987 trillion 2013 national budget last Thursday, suffered a setback with the Senate deferring consideration of the President’s request to “another legislative date”.

Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba, SAN, declared at plenary when the matter came up that the lead debate for Jonathan’s amendment request was not ready - a rarity for bills already listed for legislative consideration.

Jonathan, in separate letters to the leadership of the two chambers of the National Assembly, dated March 14, 2013, had rejected a number of ambitious stipulations in the 2013 budget allowing the National Assembly to monitor every kobo disbursed by the executive for project execution, a design federal lawmakers hatched to check the perennial problem of poor budget implementation.

 

He called for immediate review.

Another clause directed that the Minister of Finance release funds periodically as due to offices involved, and failure can only be entertained with the due permission of the National Assembly.

The president said that was impossible since revenue fluctuates and might necessitate budgetary defaults.

In the amendment proposal presented to both arms of the National Assembly in March, Jonathan retained the N4.987 trillion passed by the National Assembly last December but proposed N2.4 trillion as recurrent expenditure as against the 2.3 trillion passed on December 20, 2012.

The president is also seeking the approval of N1.588 trillion as capital expenditure as against the N1.6 trillion approved by the parliament last year.

Of the total N4.987 trillion budget in the new proposal, N388 billion is earmarked for statutory transfers while N591.7 billion is for debt service.

Jonathan had in September last year, proposed N4.92 trillion as the budget for 2013 fiscal year, but upon its passage, the National Assembly increased the figure to N4.987 trillion. With the amendment proposal, Jonathan has asked the National Assembly to restore various budget sub-heads as he presented them, in contrast to various tinkering with the figures done by the National Assembly.

 

Season Of Deaths

Last Friday, Jonathan held emergency talks with his security chiefs over a recent spate of bloody violence in the country which left about 350 dead in less than a month, in mostly ethno-religious clashes.

In the most recent case last Tuesday, Ombatse gunmen, a shadowy cult, ambushed a group of police men in the central Nigerian state of Nasarawa, killing 30 of them and setting fire to their bodies. Seventeen policemen are still missing, the police said.

The previous day, 55 people were killed in the northeastern town of Bama when Boko Haram Islamists attacked the northeast town.

In another case of religious violence, a group of gunmen attacked a church in Kano, killing 10 on Sunday, three days after 39 were killed in clashes between Christians and Muslims in central Nigeria’s Taraba state.

On April 16 and 17, brutal clashes between soldiers and insurgents in the northeast fishing town of Baga, left nearly 200 dead in the deadliest-ever episode in the Boko Haram insurgency, which has claimed 3,600 lives since 2009, including killings by the security forces.

Following the violence this week, Jonathan cut short an African tour, “to personally oversee efforts... to contain the fresh challenges to national security,” an official statement said.

On Thursday, he called off a trip to Namibia where he had planned to travel to after his state visit to neighbouring South Africa.

In view of the recent wave of deadly attacks in central and northern Nigeria, Senator Emmanuel Bwacha representing Taraba South, last week, blamed the recent crisis in Wukari which claimed 39 lives to the handiwork of unseen elements, stressing that the people of Wukari have been living peacefully together in the last six years.

Bwacha called on the Taraba state government to relax the curfew announced in the area in the aftermath of the deadly clash.

The Senator was speaking at a press briefing with Senate correspondents in the National Assembly.

LEADERSHIP recalls that two months after an ethno-religious crisis claimed over 100 lives in Wukari, the town witnessed another bloodbath where 39 people were feared killed.

According to the Senator, Wukari is a community where all faiths have been living together and relating peacefully for years. One day for the same people to wake up and start fighting each other its definitely the handiwork of unseen elements, he told Senate correspondents.

Bwacha: “We condemn such acts. The God we serve does not need anybody to fight for him. We must learn to tolerate and  live peacefully with each other. For how long shall people continue taking each others lives. This senseless killings is undesirable and must stop and we condemn it totally.

He also confirmed that a commission of inquiry has been set up by the Taraba government to unravel the root cause of the matter.

“I spoke to the governor on the need to reduce the curfew because people are suffering and the government has promised to look into the immediate and remote cause of the crisis to stop future occurrence. We have also been in touch with NEMA to access the level of damages. As at now, nothing has been done yet”.

An International Financial Centre In The Offing

A Bill for an Act to establish the Nigerian International Financial Centre to provide for a financial free zone offering a full range of financial and allied services was last Wednesday passed for a second reading by the Senate.

The establishment of the financial centre will cost Nigeria N5.6 billion according to the financial compendium attached to the bill. When passed into law, the bill will create three separate bodies; namely the Nigerian International Financial Centre Authority (Administrative body); the Nigeria International Financial Centre Regulatory Authority (NIFCRA) and the Nigeria International Financial Centre Judiciary Authority. The financial centre will be headed by a Director-General.

In lead debates, the Bill’s sponsor, Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba (SAN), (Cross River, PDP) said the bill will “plug” West Africa, especially Nigeria into the global financial system in furtherance of the region’s economic growth and development.

The bill was subsequently referred to the Senate Committee on Finance, Banking and Currency with a directive by the Senate President, David Mark to report back to Senate at plenary in four weeks.

Ndoma-Egba said the International Financial Centre will attract funding and other resource requirements for tapping the sub-region’s unexplored potentials, encourage and attract top rated International Financial Service firms to participate in West Africa’s development.

Despite the bill’s passage, there were some voices of dissent. Senator Olusola Adeyeye (Osun, ACN), said establishing another agency amounted to repeating past mistakes in creating too many agencies, by implication, adding to bureaucracy and wastage of government funds.

The Senate President, David Mark, said Nigeria needs a strong financial centre. He said the unconstitutional parts of the bill will be sorted out at the committee level to meet international best practices.

“The fact that previous agencies failed does not mean this one will fail. Its not about success or failure now but we should ask ourselves when agencies fail, we should hold the person responsible for the failure. We have to open up to the world ,meet international standards provided we put the right people’’, he said.

State Of Nation Address Bill

The Senate, last Thursday considered and passed the report of the Conference Committee on the State of the Nation Address Bill 2013 -  a bill that will make it mandatory for any sitting president to address a joint session of the National Assembly in July every year.

Following failure of the bill to become law after passage by the sixth session, Senate President, David Mark, urged President Goodluck Jonathan to ensure quick assent to the bill. “2013 is the first State of the Nation address by Mr President and I hope that he will assent to it as quickly as possible”, Mark said.

LEADERSHIP recalls that June last year, the House of Representatives had, through a resolution, invited Jonathan alongside security chiefs to appear before a closed session to brief federal lawmakers on the state of security in the country - a move that triggered varied reactions in support and dissent over the propriety of the invitation. Jonathan has refused to honour the request till date.

A conference committee was set up to harmonise differences in the versions of the bill by the Senate and House of Representatives which had affected its passage earlier on March 13, 2013.

Senators in past debates, chorused that the practice (State of the Nation Address) is in line with best democratic practices as evident in the United States and other established democracies.

The bill as passed, if assented to by the President, makes it mandatory for the president, in company of the vice-president and the head of the judicial arm of government, to address a joint sitting of the National Assembly on issues including but not limited to national security, the economy, foreign policy and social justice.

Going by the provisions of the bill, unlike what obtains in the United States from where the model was copied, the State of the Union Address by the Nigerian president would be subjected to rigorous scrutiny and debate in the two chambers of the federal legislature.

Although the president would necessarily address the parliament as prescribed by the bill when enacted, he could also be compelled to do so through summons, should he fail to comply with the law. It provided that the president must address the nation on issues of security, economy and social justice on “the first legislative day of July every year.” The bill states that “the President shall address the joint sitting aforesaid on such issues including but not limited to national security, economy, foreign policy and social justice.

The two chambers of the National Assembly shall each, debate the issues raised within 14 legislative days following the presentation of the State of the Nation Address. “Where the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria fails, neglects, or refuses to render account of his stewardship within the time stipulated by section 1 of this bill, the National Assembly may by resolution, supported by two thirds majority votes of members of each House of the National Assembly, summon the President to address the National Assembly pursuant to the provisions of this bill.”

It also provided that while the president’s address would be debated by the National Assembly, the resolution emanating from the National Assembly would be communicated to the President within 60 days from the date of such address.

 

Nigeria: 1000 New HIV Infections Daily, 100,000 Deaths Yearly

About 1.5 million people living with HIV in Nigeria require treatment; an estimated 1000 new infections occur daily and about 100,000 AIDS-related deaths are recorded annually; 350,000 infected persons have access to treatment with over 1.15 unable to have access.

The disclosures were contained in lead debates on a Bill for an Act to make provisions for the prevention of HIV discrimination and to protect the human rights and dignity of people living with HIV and affected by AIDS and other related matters debated in the Senate last Wednesday.

The Senate passed for a second reading, a Bill seeking to outlaw the discrimination of people living with HIV/AIDS - federal lawmakers say the move will encourage HIV/AIDS carriers to come out and know their status.

Senate President, David Mark, charged agencies in the country saddled with the responsibility of checking the spread of the virus to effectively deploy funds to raise awareness about the virus.

Mark decried apprehension in some quarters on condom use as a preventive measure. According to the Senate President, the belief among some religious groups that HIV/AIDS is a punishment from God is unfounded.

Leading debates on the bill, Ifeanyi Okowa (Delta, PDP), told lawmakers that at the moment, Nigeria has a huge gap in the coverage of prevention from mother-to-child transmission of HIV.

At this point, he said that stigma and discrimination have remained the major reasons why HIV has become difficult to control in Nigeria.

Okowa who lamented that the rights of the people living with HIV and AIDS are often violated, pointed out that such discrimination has limited access to treatment and prevention.

The Bill was referred to the Senate Committee on Health for further legislative works with a directive that it be brought back to plenary in four weeks.

http://leadership.ng/news/130513/pdp-patching-leaking-umbrella

As if they have any option other than voting the Ijaw man. then what is the point of the meeting when we already know what the outcome 'll be

Eko oni baje

Time to sweep off the "umbulera" covering showers of blessing from raining on Nigeria/Nigerians.

PDP people go dey $hit for body now

OLA ADEX: man i bet you this so call upn cannot have 2 or 3 councillor. i dont see them as a treat upn ko upd niiiiii. musiwa forget southwest.

Fashakin himself can't win a ward under UPN
Awolowo's UPN is not the same as the new UPN/PDP

Rhino.5dm:


Ondo state? keep lying to yourself.

You are minding that joker?

He meant east of ondo

And so what? They tricked u! ...

mankevo: ^^^@ I-B
Kai! forgive me for leaving AP and LP (Gbasibe jooor) behind.
Am from east, but honestly Yoruba Politics is out of Nigerian context. So objective and unforgiving..
Praying seriously for a time my people will vote in that manner. I thought Ondo was sweetest till I found myself working in Ogun during 2011 election.

Then i wonder how some people here think PDP can be forgiven in SW
I forgot, no Governor has also spent two complete terms in Osun

ULSHERLAN: From your assessment, is he fast?

LWKMD

Gbawe:


Their tender may have been the best.

i think the durability is more important. What if the tender is favorable to the government and the road is not durable?
I'm not castigating Brazilian firms, but not sure of the quality of their work.

tee bod: I stay @ lambe and there's no sign of construction.

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tee bod: I stay @ lambe and there's no sign of construction.

It think awarding it is different from starting construction. my thought

Why Brazilian firm?

mankevo: Are you PORTING,PORTED or about to PORT?
All Individual differences should be buried,Loyalty questioned/evaluated, Future analysed and MASSIVELY, Nigerians should PORT from the DEVIL THEY HAVE KNOWN FOR 14years (PDP) to APC (The ANGEL they dont know yet)

As a nation we have nothing to lose, if APC fails (and Senate/HOR) fails to correct them as we witness now, then 2019 we PORT AGAIN to another alternative (Not PDP or APC)

Yorubas had AD------PDP-----ACN/ LP/AP and definitely they have better stories in this Republic to tell.

Fixed.
That porting thing is so so good.
We in Ibadan have ported to all the parties in Nigeria, no governor has spent two terms since 1999
if we see that you are dormant and lack ideas we port you out sharp sharp, This present guys we ported to is doing fine sha...
Hope Lagosians too can port to feel the fresh breeze in porting.

berem: You people will always complain and complain! Yesterday it was Rochas, today it's Orji. Tomorrow it might be Elechi. Can you people say at least something good about the South east governors and their achievements? Why passing negative comments?

Even the best Governor Fashola is being criticized and badmouthed, so what do you expect people to say about SE governors doing less?

I think people have the right to express what they feel about these politicians. If he looks slow to anyone, why shouldn't they call him slow? Former Lagos governor too is referred to as "Tinubu" because they feel he is a thief. Same as the people who feel Jonathan is clueless and ret@rded. Do you expect everyone to lick the @ss of these politicians?

This cracked me up- "or shut up forever"

SIMON EBEGBULEM
BENIN CITY-THE leadership of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Edo state, yesterday, challenged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to disclose the evidence that Governor Adams Oshiomhole begged to join the party or shut up forever.

This comes as the leadership of the party read riot act to all its elected council chairmen, warning that they must reciprocate the developmental strides of the Governor in their respective councils and absolute loyalty to the leadership of the party or be sanctioned.

The state chairman of the party and former Speaker of the Edo state House of Assembly, Mr Thomas Okosun, who declared this during a meeting with the chairmen in Benin City yesterday, said the PDP was deceiving themselves by alleging what he described as “their normal story telling”, asserting that they lack what the Comrade Governor will beg for, particularly when it comes to the politics of Edo state today”.

He insisted that the PDP failed in the just concluded Local Government election because they were not in touch with the people, saying “it is funny because they only exist on the pages of Newspapers in Abuja but nowhere to be found in Edo state”.

While stressing the need for the elected chairmen to be disciplined and sincere to the people, Okosun reminded that “the reason why we are celebrating victory today is because of the performance of the Comrade Governor and that is exactly what we demand from you as chairmen. We will entertain no excuses for failure. You must be disciplined, the party has remained united till today due to discipline in the party”.

He admonished them to carry everybody along, “ even those that did not vote for you or never supported your nomination. It is a shame that the PDP is crying over an elected that is adjudged as the freest and fairest we have ever witnessed in this state. Most of us were in the PDP before and we knew that Local Government elected was never conducted. When PDP was in power, they only supply 30 per cent of the voting materials and keep 70 per cent in the houses of leaders.

“Some areas there will be no supply of materials at all and results will be written. They are only trying to deceive their colleagues in Abuja that they are relevant here but the PDP is dead in Edo. we don’t need to rig election to win. Look at what the PDP did in Bayelsa, Kogi and other areas, non of the opposition political parties won a single seat.

“It is only in Edo that we saw the PDP winning in some wards yet they are opening their mouth to shout in Abuja. PDP can never win election again in Edo state because our people have rejected them. our performance will continue to speak for us and God will bless the Comrade Governor for his leadership qualities” he stated.

Responding, the chairman of Ikpoba Okhai Local Government Council, Mrs Itohan Ogbeide, commended the leadership of the party for their assistance and fatherly love extended to every party member. She pledged their total loyalty to the party, just as she assured that they will continue the developmental strides of the Comrade Governor at the Local level.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/provide-evidence-that-oshiomhole-begged-to-join-pdp-or-shut-edo-acn/

Seven other governor wee in Owerri to show support for the Imo governor.
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo on Tuesday formally expressed support for the All Progressives Congress (APC), urging the people of the state to join him.
Mr. Okorocha made the declaration at a rally in Owerri as part of activities marking his two years in office.
He said his intention of joining APC was to ensure that the people continued to benefit from the dividends of democracy.
He explained that APGA had engaged in the merger and not in alliance with any party, noting that a two party system was good for the country’s democracy.
The governor told the crowd that came to witness his declaration that the state had witnessed more development in two years than in the past 12 years.
Mr. Okorocha also told them that APC would bring the state closer to the “federal eye”.
Moves by the governor to merge APGA with others to form the APC has generated heat among APGA stakeholders.
Seven state governors were present at the rally to show solidarity with the governor.
Speaking at the occasion, Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos commended Mr. Okorocha for his bold move, describing APC as the solution to the numerous challenges facing the country.
Governor Umaru Al-Makura of Nasarawa described the governor as a true democrat who would not relent in delivering the dividends of democracy to his people and urged them to support Mr. Okorocha.
On his part, Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti observed that Mr. Okorocha had brought some noticeable changes in the state, saying he would, through the APC, bring more transformation.
Similarly, Governors Adams Oshiomhole of Edo and Rauf Aregbesola of Osun congratulated Mr. Okorocha on his achievements, noting that the rally was to create awareness and sensitise the people on the need to support the merger.
(NAN)
http://premiumtimesng.com/news/national/133168-okorocha-formally-joins-apc.html