OKUPE ON OBASANJO'S INFLUENCE IN OGUN STATE

FORMER Presidential spokesman under ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, Dr. Doyin Okupe, yesterday said the leadership style of the former President cannot win elections again for the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] in Ogun State.He described Chief Obasanjo  as a liability to the party in the State, saying his strick could only work on national level to those who still believe in his ruling style. He was recently appointed as Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs.Okupe who was Obasanjo’s Special Adviser on media matters for three years between 1999 and 2002 and he was displaced by Mrs Remi Oyo.He spoke after he was appointed PDP’s acting leader, at a stakeholders meeting, in Ijebu-Igbo.According to him;...

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CLARK CHALLENGES IBB

Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, on Wednesday challenged former head of state, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, to a public senility test. Clark, who was reacting to Babangida’s description of the Ijaw leader as senile, said the test would determine the reasoning ability of both of them. Babangida, who was reacting to some recent comments made by Clark, had said the Ijaw leader had lost focus and had become senseless. Clark had attacked Babangida at a public lecture, where he accused the former military leader of having a hand in the Boko Haram insurgency. However, his declaration was contained in a statement read at a press conference in Abuja by his lawyer, Mr. Kayode Ajulo. Clark said both of them should sit at a public debate, without the assistance of aides, to debate issues so that Nigerians...

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SYRIAN PRIME MINISTER DEFECTS

Syria's Prime Minister Riyad Hijab has defected from President Bashar al- Assad's administration and joined the opposition to his rule, a spokesman said on Monday in a statement broadcast on Al Jazeera television. "I announce today my defection from the killing and terrorist regime and I announce that I have joined the ranks of the freedom and dignity revolution. I announce that I am from today a soldier in this blessed revolution," Hijab said in a statement read in his name by the spokesman. The spokesman said Hijab was in a safe place. Ascol...

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