Jonathan’s meeting with Agbaje, Adams, Obanikoro in Lagos is on how to rig guber election to avenge his defeat- APC

The All Progressives Congress has raised the alarm over President Goodluck Jonathan’s unannounced visit to Lagos State a day to the governorship election.

National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in a statement, wondered why Jonathan arrived in Lagos late on Thursday.

He said Jonathan had a closed-door meeting with the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate, Mr. Jimi Agbaje; the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs II, Musiliu Obanikoro; and the National Coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress, Gani Adams.

Mohammed alleged that the meeting was obviously to strategise on how to manipulate the polls.

He said Jonathan was using the general perception, that he is a ‘good sportsman’, to deceive Nigerians.

APC leads as Jonathan, Sambo, Agbaje, Ribadu, Bode George, Mimiko, Dasuki, Obanikoro, Fani-Kayode, Adams, others lose at units tree

*Jonathan loses at Aso Villa units


Some heavyweight politicians lost their polling units in yesterday’s elections.


A major loss by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is the one at the two polling units in front of Aso Villa – the Presidential abode.


The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Gen. Muhammadu Buhari won in the two units.
Buhari got a total of 613 votes, while Jonathan polled a total of 595 votes.


Vice President Namadi Sambo got the same treatment in the former polling unit (Kabala 005) in Kaduna where the APC received overwhelming majority of votes.


The APC scored 386 votes to beat the PDP that scored 53 votes in the presidential election. APC got 385 and 369 votes in the senate and house of assembly elections respectively while the PDP got 59 and 62 respectively.
The results were announced by the presiding officer Abdulfatah Ali.


In Lagos State Governorship candidate Jimi Agbaje’s Apapa polling unit the APC won 126 votes while PDP won 60.

Obanikoro, seven others get ministerial portfolios

Embattled former minister of state, Defence and former Lagos state Peoples Democratic Party, PDP governorship candidate on Wednesday was given the State, Foreign Affairs II portfolio along other seven others.

President Goodluck Jonathan inaugurated the eight new ministers recently confirmed by the Senate before the commencement of the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting.

The President thereafter assigned portfolios to them as follows: Senator Patricia Akwashiki (Information); Prof. Nicholas Ada (State, Foreign Affairs I); Senator Musiliu Obanikoro (State, Foreign Affairs II); Col. Augustine Akobundu (retd.) (State, Defence); Mr. Fidelis Nwankwo (State, Health); Mrs. Hauwa Bappa (State, Niger Delta Affairs); Mr. Kenneth Kobani (State, Industry, Trade and Investment); and Senator Joel Ikenya (Labour and Productivity).

Lagos PDP primary: Why I went to court - Obanikoro

The crisis rocking the Lagos chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) might take a long time to linger as  Sen. Musiliu Obanikoro, a contestant for the PDP Lagos governorship ticket has explained the reason he took the party to court.

Obanikoro, while addressing his supporters at his campaign office in Ikeja, said he sued the party’s leadership to compel it to expedite action on a petition he made.

Obanikoro had on Tuesday petitioned the party’s leadership over the PDP governorship primary election in the state held on Monday.

PDP members urge court to disqualify Obanikoro

Three members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have urged the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja to disqualify a former defence minister Musiliu Obanikoro from seeking governorship nomination in the party’s primaries.

They said having previously presented a forged birth certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the April 2007 election, Obanikoro is ineligible to present himself for nomination.

According to them, official records, such as his Nigerian and diplomatic passports, show that Obanikoro was born on July 28, 1960, but he allegedly falsified it to July 28, 1954.

Besides, the applicants said Obanikoro also allegedly lied in 2007 when he failed to disclose to INEC that he has dual citizenship.

They prayed the court to determine whether, having voluntarily acquired the citizenship of the United States of America in addition to that of Nigeria without renouncing the former and declaring allegiance to the latter, Obanikoro is eligible to seek nomination.

The plaintiffs – Michael Ogunsuada, Suleiman Saheed and Wasiu Odusan – are seeking a declaration that Obanikoro stands disqualified from aspiring for nomination in PDP’s governorship primaries or that of any other party for the purposes of contesting either in next year’s election or subsequent polls by virtue of his antecedents.

They prayed for an order of perpetual injunction restraining him from participating in PDP’s governorship primaries scheduled for December 8.

They also sought an order restraining the party from nominating Obanikoro to INEC to contest next year’s governorship election in Lagos or any other election in Nigeria.

The plaintiffs, who joined Obanikoro, INEC and PDP as respondents, further sought a restraining order against INEC from accepting Obanikoro’s nomination by PDP for any election.

In a supporting affidavit filed on November 14, Ogunsuada said he is a loyal party man who is determined to ensure that only a high quality candidate and person of character and competence who fulfils all constitutional requirements is nominated.

“I am likely to be gravely prejudiced if the aspiration for nomination of the first respondent (Obanikoro) as a candidate in the primaries of the third respondent (PDP) is not restrained considering his shady antecedents…,” the deponent said.

The applicants lawyers also filed an affidavit of urgency praying that the application be heard quickly as PDP’s screening exercise will hold between November 22 and 25.

They stated that if the suit is not heard and determined urgently, Obanikoro may present himself for screening while the applicants “may lose their rights to challenge the respondents.”