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AHEAD of the public declaration of Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the National Secretariat of the party has inaugurated a seven member committee to work out a smooth movement of the governor and other Labour Party, LP, chieftains to the PDP. Gov Mimiko Governor Mimiko is expected to defect publicly next month in an elaborate ceremony that will attract President Goodluck Jonathan, the NWC members of the Party and PDP governors . Members of the committee led by a PDP Board of Trustees member of the party in the state, Dr Bode Olajumoke has representatives from the three Senatorial Districts of the state. Other committee members include former governorship candidate of the party in the state, Chief Olusola Oke, former Defence Minister, Tokunbo Kayode and the Special Adviser to the President on Amnesty Affairs, Mr. Kingsly Kuku. Also included are former Information Commissioner in the state, Dr Eddy Olafeso, former council chairma...

T he  All Progressives Congress, APC, over the weekend headed for a serious crisis following strong reservations among its major presidential candidates over the procedure for adopting the 2015 presidential candidate for the party. At the end of a National Executive Committee, NEC meeting of the party last weekend, the party was unable to forge a consensus on the issue with associates of the major aspirants reportedly holding on to their positions. Two of the major presidential aspirants, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and former vice-president Atiku Abubakar,  Vanguard  learnt were at the head of the major divisions over the adoption of a consensus or the conduct of primaries for the adoption of the presidential candidate. The other major aspirants, notably, Governor Rabiu Kwankwanso of Kano State and Mr. Sam Nda-Isaiah are reportedly indifferent. Yesterday, aides of Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, who is also set to enter the fray were largely mute on the issue,...

EKITI State Deputy governor elect, Dr Olusola Kolapo Eleka Sunday revealed how he emerged the deputy in the recently held Ekiti gubernatorial polls.   According to Eleka, his father actually nominated him for the position when the governor elect, Peter Ayodele Fayose approached him to be his deputy.   The deputy-governor elect who spoke at the year 2014 annual general convention and ordination of 559 new pastors organised by Christ Apostolic Church, Alasepe, Ikire said he never dreamt of becoming a deputy governor because he was never interested in politics.   He said, “I was a senior lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University. It was so sudden when I was invited to be the governor elect. I never aspired or contested for it. I was never a politician, but my father is a politician. Fayose called my father to come and be his deputy, but he said he is old. Fayose then asked him to choose somebody who would be loyal and work with him conscientiously for the progress of...

We are sure we are not the only source puzzled by this development. But, we are the ones who decided to mention it. Is there any truth to the long-swirled rumours that Julia Roberts and George Clooney were (or is) an item? Roberts was conspicuously missing from the posse of celebrities who descended on Venice in a thrilling four-day ceremony sealing Cloone's nuptials to Alamuddin, 36,  on September 27 in Venice, Italy. It is glaringly a missing piece as Roberts and Clooney were known to be very very close friends. They met when he was still an unknown and Roberts already a star. The 53 year old actor credits Roberts with encouraging him to soldier on when his career failed to move to spectacular levels way back before he became The George Clooney. More puzzling, within weeks, Clooney showed off Alamuddin, Oxford-educated international human rights' lawyer and Wikileaks' Julian Assange's attorney, to his close circle of friends and associates like Rick Gerber, an...

Politicians in Ekiti State are worried that more assassinations might take place in the state following the killing of a former Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Omolafe Aderiye, on Thursday. Aderiye, a stalwart of the Peoples Democratic Party and a supporter of the state’s incoming governor, Ayo Fayose, was shot dead by unknown gunmen in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, Ekiti State. His assassination had been preceded by the disruption of the sitting of the state election petitions tribunal by thugs believed to be working for Mr. Fayose. A day after his assassination, on Friday, the dispute between members of two parties took a turn for the worse when suspected thugs went round the capital setting buildings and vehicles ablaze. To avert further bloodshed, the Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, quickly declared a dusk-to-dawn curfew in the state on Friday. In a live broadcast in Ado-Ekiti on Friday, Fayemi said there would be no movement between the ...