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Facts emerged on Friday that the All Progressives Grand Alliance has compelled members of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party who defected to the party to sign an undertaking before they would be given the partys tickets.

Scores of the aggrieved members of the PDP had on Tuesday shunned the reconciliation committee headed by King Amalate Turner and picked the tickets of APGA to fly the flag of the party to contest the 2015 elections.

The PDP members such as a former President of the Ijaw Youth Congress, Mr. Jonjon Oyeinfa, and a former Commissioner in Bayelsa State, Zuwa Kodugah, picked the tickets to represent their various constituencies at the next general election in the state on the platform of APGA.

Kodugah, until recently, was a commissioner for State Capital Development under the administration of Governor Seriake Dickson.

However, it was learnt that APGA accepted the defecting PDP members on the condition that they would sign an undertaking, promising that they would not abandon the party when elected into the state and national assemblies in 2015.

The APGA state chairman, Mr. John Sokare, while intimating journalists on the development, said though acts of defection by politicians was not new to Nigerian politics, APGA had insisted that all flag bearers of the party must sign an undertaking to abide by the partys constitution.

Sokare said, We have laid out our conditions for the state and National Assembly aspirants. In spite of the fact that we are friendly and disposed to the election of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015, we asked them to abide by our party rules on performance.

We also asked them to develop a new disposition to infrastructural development, women and youths empowerment, and they should be accessible to the people when elected into office.

They will be formally made to sign an undertaking on all of these and our disposition to issue of cross-carpeting after being elected on our platform as a party.

On the claim that the mass defection of PDP members into the fold of APGA was influenced by the wife of the President, Patience Jonathan, Sukare dismissed the claim as fictitious, insisting that those elected as flagbearers of the party were committed and needed a platform to actualise their dream of contributing to the development of the state.

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South-East zonal spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress, Osita Okechukwu

The All Progressives Congress in the South-East and some governors elected on the partys platform have hailed the emergence of a former Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, as the partys presidential candidate.

The APC also hailed the losers of the partys presidential primary for accepting defeat in good faith.

The party, which described the losers as co-winners of the presidential primary, saluted the robust understanding and sportsmanship they demonstrated after the result of the exercise was announced.

A former Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, defeated former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, Kano State Governor, Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwaso; Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha and a newspaper publisher, Mr. Sam Nda-Isaiah, to emerge as the winner of the primary held on Wednesday through Thursday in Lagos.

The party said the candour of the losers and their solidarity with the winner was uncommon and highly commendable.

A statement issued on Friday by the spokesman for the APC in South-East, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, said the result of the primary reflected a nationwide acceptance of Buhari as a man of the people.

Also, the Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, and his Osun State counterpart, Alhaji Rauf Aregbesola, congratulated Buhari on his victory at the primary.

They said in statements issued by their spokespersons that Buharis emergence was an attestation of the high regard the party had for democratic process.

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The caucuss co-chairs, Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), declared that they would oppose the cromnibus in a statement Wednesday. | AP Photo

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The Congressional Progressive Caucus is pushing its nearly 70 Democrats to oppose a sweeping funding bill on Thursday because it rolls back a key aspect of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.

The liberal groups whip operation blasted out an email earlier Thursday urging its members to reject the so-called cromnibus if a provision tucked into the massive bill which helps big banks trade derivatives in units backstopped by a government guarantee remained in the spending measure. Democrats see it as a way to undo protections intended to prevent financial crises like the 2008 crash.

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This kind of activity was a cause of the 2008 crisis and directly led to the economic hardship currently being felt by millions of Americans, reads the email to CPCs member offices, obtained by POLITICO. A provision in the cromnibus would gut and repeal this provision.

The caucuss co-chairman, Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), declared that they would oppose the cromnibus in a statement Wednesday. Liberals are also irate about a provision in the spending bill that would increase contribution limits for official party committees.

Its not yet clear if this new push will cause sufficient opposition to jeopardize the bill. If enough liberal Democrats defect from the spending package, it could potentially derail its passage, since House Republicans are also set to lose dozens of their own members.

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Dinesh DSouza will let several prominent liberal thinkers have their say in his follow-up documentary to 2016: Obamas America. The conservative filmmaker told The Hollywood Reporter that the documentary, America, will feature the commentary of Alan Dershowitz, Noam Chomsky, Bill Ayers, Michael Eric Dyson and Charles Truxillo.

In 2016, we let President Obamas voice be heard literally, DSouza tells THR. With America, we also wanted to hear directly the voices of Americas biggest critics. The conservative answer to offensive speech has always been not to silence it, but to listen carefully, consider whats been said and offer more speech. I was delighted that some of the smartest progressives in America agreed to sit down with me.

DSouza wouldnt name the prominent liberals who declined his request to appear in the film, nor would he disclose what is said by those who do appear, beyond Truxillos comments, seen in a video below.

The filmmaker is under indictment for violating campaign finance laws for allegedly using straw donors in order to give more money to a U.S. Senate campaign than legally allowed. His trial begins May 19, but he says his legal problems will not delay the release of America.

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Several prominent people, including Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, have said that DSouza is being targeted by political operatives who were upset with 2016, an unflattering look at Barack Obama that used lots of audio and video of the president. The movie also included an interview with George Obama, the presidents half brother in Kenya.

In video of America obtained by THR, Truxillo a professor of Chicano studies at the University of New Mexico and a leading voice on the far left on the topic of immigration airs several provocative opinions. In the film, he argues in favor of North America confederating with Mexico in a country that will be predominantly Latino and Hispanic.

Truxillo also tells DSouza that Mexican immigrants have no desire to become like the white brats in the mall and adds: I like the things the Americans have. Who doesnt? But I dont necessarily want to be part of their culture. I dont want to end up in the world of Roseanne Barr.

As for the other progressive thinkers, Dershowitz is one of the countrys most famous attorneys. Clients of the outspoken liberal have included Mike Tyson, Patty Hearst and O.J. Simpson. His representation of accused murderer Claus von Bulow was the subject of Reversal of Fortune, an Oscar-winning 1990 film in which deceased actor Ron Silver plays Dershowitz.

Chomsky, a philosopher-scientist and professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is one of the most regarded thinkers on the American left. Dyson is a writer, radio host, television pundit and professor of sociology at Georgetown University.

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