The battle over who becomes the next vice president has shifted to the National Assembly where President Goodluck Jonathan’s nominee, Governor Namadi Sambo of Kaduna State will be screened tomorrow. | Read Story

El-Rufai docked

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned former minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, before Justice Adamu Bello of the Federal High Court, Abuja on an eight-count corruption charges.
El-Rufai, who was docked along with two others yesterday, however, pleaded not guilty when the charges were read to him. | Read Story

New VP: The governors’ game plan

The plot began late last year as hopes dimmed on the recovery of the late President Musa Yar’Adua from the ailment that eventually claimed his life last week Wednesday. The 28 Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) governors had gathered in Abuja for one of their routine meetings, under the auspices of the Governors’ Forum(GF).| Read more

INEC : Jonathan makes U-turn

President Goodluck Jonathan has stepped into the stalemate at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as he reversed his earlier order, directing that the most senior national commissioner take over from retiring Prof. Maurice Iwu in acting capacity.
Jonathan, on Monday night wrote a letter to Prince Adedeji Soyebi, appointing him Acting Chairman of the commission instead of Mr. Philip Umeadi (Jr) who was the superior of the two surviving national commissioners.

Jonathan also reversed the earler presidential order which hitherto sent Mr. Victor Chukwuani, another National Commissioner on compulsory pre-retirement leave. Chukwuani had been asked to return to INEC “to complete his tenure which has not expired.”
Daily Sun learnt that the letters approving Soyebi and reinstating Chukwuani were signed by Yayale Ahmed, Secretary to the Federal Government and copied to INEC Secretary, Alhaji Abdullahi Kaugama.

Besides the intrigues and the politicking that have trailed the leadership of the electoral body since Iwu was forced into pre-disengagement leave, a forthnight ago, the presidency was said to have considered the respective ages of Soyebi and Umeadi while settling for an acting INEC chief.

Born in October 21, 1963, Umeadi is 46 years now. The minimum age requirement for INEC Chairman is 50. He obtained his LLB in 1990 after spending six years, for a five-year course, an extra one year at the University of Benin Law Faculty.
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