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Interim National Chairman, All Progressive Congress, Chief Bisi Akande Despite its growing acceptability within the country’s political circle, all appears not to be well with the All Progressives Congress as a crisis over power sharing and control is brewing in the party. Investigation by Saturday PUNCH showed that the five governors, who defected to the APC from the Peoples Democratic Party, were locked in a supremacy battle with some leaders of the three political parties that merged to form the APC. The parties that merged to form APC are the Action Congress of Nigeria, All Nigeria Peoples Party and the Congress for Progressive Change. Saturday PUNCH’s investigations in Abuja on Thursday showed that the looming crisis was threatening the nationwide membership registration, which the party had scheduled for early this year. To forestall problem, however, the party has set up reconciliation committees in some of the affected states. The governors, who left the PDP...

President Goodluck The Presidency on Friday denied a statement credited to a Kenyan lady that President Goodluck Jonathan recently visited her country in seven private aircraft. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, in a message on his Twitter handle, described the statement as a blatant lie. He said Jonathan traveled to Kenya with only one aircraft. In a video which has gone viral on YouTube and other social media platforms, the Kenyan lady was heard saying, “Your (Nigerian) President visited our country with seven private jets. That has never happened before, we were all excited, ‘this is Nigeria, it is the country with the highest number of private jets.’ Seven private jets, I know there could be more but for us, that is still wao! They all came in their private jets.” The video was Twitted by Nigerians including a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir El-Rufa’i, forcing Abati to react. While the presidential spokes...

Isreal Government A former senator, Chief Anthony Agbo, on Saturday urged the Federal Government to enter into extensive security pact with the U.S. and Israel to check insecurity in the country. Agbo, the immediate past senator representing Ebonyi North senatorial zone, gave the advice at Mgbo, Ohaukwu Local Government Area, Ebonyi, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria. He said that the pact would provide the needed platform for the government to check the rising wave of terrorism and other related security challenges that confronts it. “Our security agencies are trying their best but it is obvious that they are being confronted with highly organised and complicated situation. “Nigeria is facing its greatest security challenge since the end of the civil war. These countries (U.S. and Israel) are the world’s best in checking terrorism and related acts,” he said. “The pact will not connote interference with Nigeria’s internal affairs as it will not necessarily mean inva...