Ex-Jonathan’s spokesman, Ima Niboro, joins APC

Ovie Okpare, Warri 

Ima Niboro, a former Presidential spokesman for ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, on Monday dumped the Peoples Democratic Party and joined  the ruling All Progressives Congress.

Niboro, who is the immediate former Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria, was first received into the party by the APC chieftains in Ughelli South Local Government before he was later admitted into the party by the state chairman of the party, Prophet Jones Erue.

Gowon visits Benin monarch, urges prayer for Nigeria

 

 

Alexander Okere, Benin

A former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (retd.), on Monday paid a courtesy visit to the Oba of Benin, His Royal Majesty, Oba Ewuare II, at his palace in Benin, Edo State.

Gowon, who was accompanied by a delegation, was received by the Oba and several palace chiefs at about 3pm.

Police to withdraw politicians’ orderlies

Friday Amobi, P’Harcourt

OPERATIVES of the Rivers State Police Command on Monday said it would withdraw police orderlies attached to politicians in the state during the December 10 reruns.

The operatives, who spoke during a meeting with stakeholders in Port Harcourt, also said it would not allow any police officer to go close to the polling units with guns and ammunition.

Rivers rerun: PDP attacks Ganduje over comments

Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja

The Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led Peoples Democratic Party on Monday described the statement by the Kano State Governor, Alhaji Abdullahi Ganduje, that having free and fair elections in the South-South region of the country was abnormal, as a veiled threat that the forthcoming electoral reruns in Rivers State will be manipulated by the All Progressives Congress.