A ranking member of the House of Representatives, Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa has said that the Speakership of the 7th National Assembly will emerge on the basis of competence irrespective of ethno-religious or regional background.

LESS than two weeks to hand-over , the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in Oyo State has warned the out-going Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala, members of his kitchen cabinet and other political functionaries against alleged last minute looting of State funds, government property and assets.

THE 2011 elections might have come and gone but not so for the agony trailing the polls. Many Nigerian families lost loved ones in some northern states during the post-presidential election mayhem.

Ogboko, the country home of Imo State governor-elect, Mr. Rochas Okorocha, has become a political pilgrimage centre of sort since he was announced winner of the gubernatorial election last weekend.

Former Senate Leader and strongman of Kwara politics, Dr. Olusola Saraki, yesterday, lamented that the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), was robbed of well-deserved victories during the general elections in Kwara State.

An Islamic organisation, Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), has set up a four-member committee on the post-election crisis that engulfed Kaduna State.

The long anticipated April 2011 elections have come and gone. What remains now in the saddles of leadership is the reality of the challenges of having to live up to the various electioneering promises.

WITH today’s supplementary governorship election in Imo State, the curtains may have been drawn on the 2011 general polls but the implications for a host of contestants and political gladiators remain.

FORMER Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark said yesterday that as President Goodluck Jonathan settles down to put in place his cabinet, he must not allow State governors nominate for him Ministers that will form the yet to be constituted Federal Executive Council, FEC.

The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has said it is not interested in the so-called Government of National Unity,GNU, being planned by the PDP-led federal government, saying it is satisfied with its role as the leader of opposition and a government-in-waiting.