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TheAll Progressives Congress has accused the Peoples Democratic Party in Osun State of planning to deliberately cause crisis in the state with its interpretation of the ruling of the Appeal Court.

The Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy of the APC in Osun State, Mr. Kunle Oyatomi, who said this in a statement on Wednesday, called on security agencies in the state to be at alert to prevent the opposition party from throwing the state into confusion.

The Court of Appeal had thrown out the appeal filed by the Independent National Electoral Commission and the Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Ambassador Rufus Akeju, seeking to upturn an earlier judgment of a High Court that Akeju could not preside over the 2011 election in the state because of his alleged relationship with former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu.

The PDP interpreted the striking out of the appeal to mean that all elections conducted by the REC had become invalid and state lawmakers and members of the National Assembly from the state should be sacked.

The statement read, Security agencies should be prepared to nip in the bud the threat to peace and security, which the Peoples Democratic Party has become over the issue of the Appeal Court ruling in Akure, which struck out INECs appeal against its Resident Electoral Commissioner, Amb. Toyin Akeju, from supervising the 2011 legislative elections in the state.

From competent information we have and the intelligence deductions we could make from the PDP chairman, Alhaji Gani Olaoluwas statement to forcefully stop the lawful business of the State House of Assembly, it is obvious that the PDP planned to orchestrate mayhem in the state.

Had there been a declaration, ruling or judgment on the 2011 legislative elections by the Federal High Court, Osogbo? We should ask the mischievous PDP people: what was the issue the INEC appealed against? Did it include that pertaining to the elections for which the High Court did not restrain it from conducting? In fact, the High Court refused that prayer.

We therefor appeal to the security officials not to allow illiterates, who are currently leading the PDP in the state, to throw Osun into confusion.

We are particularly grateful for the response of the State Police Command, which put paid to PDPs attempt to create mayhem at the State House of Assembly on Monday and we also like to emphasise that the threat to peace and security from the PDP is not over yet.

Olaoluwa had said the implication of the appellate courts ruling was that lawmakers produced by the election, which Akeju supervised, should be sacked.

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THE All Progressives Congress in Rivers State and the Grassroots Development Initiative have disagreed on Wednesdays resignation of the Minister of State for Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, and his move to contest the 2015 governorship election.

While the state APC saw Wikes resignation and governorship ambition as a political suicide, the GDI maintained that his resignation was an answer to calls that he (Wike) should quit the Federal Executive Council and contest the governorship primary of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state.

The State Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mr. Chris Fynebone, said in an interview with our correspondent that Wike would suffer the worst defeat in the hand of any governorship candidate should he (Wike) contest the 2015 election.

Fynebone cautioned that the political calculation in the state did not support anybody from Ikwerre to succeed the current governor of the state, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, who hails from the same area as Wike.

I am speaking as an Ijaw person now. We learnt that Wike has resigned to contest the 2015 governorship election. It is a political suicide because he will suffer the biggest defeat any governorship candidate has ever suffered.

His ambition will estrange the Ijaw people from the Ikwerre people and this means he (Wike) will get less than five per cent of the votes from the Ijaw people.

The very moment he (Wike) picks the ticket to contest the governorship election, voting based on party lines or affiliation will melt away, the state APC publicity secretary added.

But the Secretary-General of GDI, Mr. Samuel Nwanosike, described Wikes resignation and governorship ambition as a welcome development, adding that the former minister has what it takes to win the forthcoming poll.

Nwanosike, who spoke in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Wednesday, explained that the former minister would leave no stone unturned to clinch the sole ticket of the PDP.

He boasted that the grand patron of GDI would not only win the PDP primary election, Wike would also win the general election.

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The All Progressives Congress in Rivers State and the Grassroots Development Initiative have disagreed on Wednesdays resignation of the Minister of State for Education, Chief Nyesom Wike and his move to contest the 2015 governorship election.

While the state APC sees Wikes resignation and governorship ambition as a political suicide, the GDI maintained that his resignation was an answer to calls that he (Wike) should quit the Federal Executive Council and contest the governorship primary of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state.

State Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mr. Chris Fynebone, said in an interview with our correspondent that Wike would suffer the worst defeat by any governorship candidate should he (Wike) contest the 2015 election.

Finebone cautioned that the political calculation in the state did not support anybody from Ikwerre to succeed the current Governor of the state, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, who hails from the same area with Wike.

He said, I am speaking as an Ijaw person now. We learnt that Wike has resigned to contest the 2015 governorship election. It is a political suicide because he will suffer the biggest defeat any governorship candidate has ever suffered.

His ambition will estrange the Ijaw people from the Ikwerre people and this means he (Wike) will get less than five percent of the votes from the Ijaw people.

The very moment, he (Wike) picks the ticket to contest the governorship election, voting based on party lines or affiliation will melt away.

But the Secretary-General of GDI, Mr. Samuel Nwanosike, described Wikes resignation and governorship ambition as a welcome development, adding that the former minister has what it takes to win the forthcoming poll.

Nwanosike, who spoke in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Wednesday, explained that the former minister would leave no stone unturned to clinch the sole ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party.

He boasted that the grand patron of GDI would not only win the PDP primary election, Wike would also win the general election.

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Liberals score higher than other parties in Nanos Index but have slid for second week in succession

After a climb in their party index scores over the summer and early fall, the Liberals registered a decline for the second week in succession.

Even with the decline the Liberals enjoy a score on the 100 point index stronger than the other federal parties. The Liberals scored 59 points out of 100 compared to the Conservatives who scored 52 points, the NDP 49 points, the Green Party 32 points and the BQ in Quebec 25 points.

On the preferred Prime Minister front the eight point gap last week is now a five point gap. Asked who they would prefer as Prime Minister, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau was first at 35 per cent followed by Conservative Leader Stephen Harper at 30 per cent, NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair at 17 per cent and May at four per cent.

Over the past two weeks the Conservative accessible vote pool has started to positively move but still trails both the Liberals and the New Democrats.

Asked a series of independent questions, 58 per cent of Canadians would consider voting for the federal Liberals, 46 per cent would consider the NDP, 42 per cent would consider the Conservatives and 26 per cent would consider the Green Party of Canada.

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The Ontario government quietly changed the rules of a public loan program expressly to give money to MaRS, underlining the effort the province made to use tax dollars to help the research incubator salvage a failing real estate deal.

In 2011, the province gave MaRS a $224-million loan, with a monthly interest rate of between 2.44 and 2.57 per cent, to save a plan to build a new office tower at University Avenue and College Street in Toronto. But MaRS did not actually qualify for the loan from Crown corporation Infrastructure Ontario. So the Liberals rewrote the rules.

The MaRS project was a unique situation, and the government made decisions to ensure that [the office tower project] did not collapse, Economic Development and Infrastructure Minister Brad Duguid said on Wednesday. And part of that was making a decision as to whether we would ensure that MaRS was eligible for that infrastructure program.

Mr. Duguid said the government stepped in because MaRS could not get financing from the private sector. Private lenders, he said, wanted the project to have most of its tenants signed up before they would support it. The tower is still only about one-third full.

It was a proposition that was very challenged, he admitted to reporters after a legislative committee hearing during which he discussed the governments rule change.

Even with the loan, MaRSs project fell apart, because the organization could not find enough tenants. The government bailed it out again this year. Mr. Duguid is considering moving bureaucrats into the building and paying MaRS taxpayer-funded rents to help it repay the loan.

In committee hearings this week, the Liberals have blocked the release of documents related to the MaRS loan and bailout. Among other things, the Grits refuse to release the business calculations Infrastructure Ontario did when evaluating MaRSs loan request. Mr. Duguid has said such calculations may not even exist.

NDP MPP Percy Hatfield accused the government of secrecy.

If you are doing this sort of thing, you should be upfront, fully accountable, fully transparent, he said. Tell the taxpayers: this is how were spending your money, this is why were spending your money in this fashion, and this is what we hope to achieve by it.

Progressive Conservative MPP Ted Arnott said the Liberals had clearly hidden some aspects of the bailout before the provincial election.

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