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The Kaduna State chapter of All Progressives Congress, on Friday called for the unconditional release of 75-year-old Dr Stephen Kitchener, abducted in Zaria on Tuesday.

A statement by the state Interim Chairman of the party, Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed described the abducted medical doctor as an icon of service and humility.

It said, Dr Kitchener has dedicated his life to the service of his community, and it is almost certain that his kidnappers are mistaken in believing that he has the type of wealth needed to buy his freedom.

We join many others in praying for his safe release, and appeal to his kidnappers to free him without delay.

The statement particularly urged Vice-President Namadi Sambo and Gov. Mukhtar Yero of Kaduna State to support efforts to trace and free this elderly man who has many health challenges.

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The All Progressives Congress has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to cancel the political rally planned for him by the Adamawa State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party slated for Tuesday.

In a statement signed by its interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Thursday, the APC said the President cannot and should not be celebrating when over 200 school girls are missing.

The party expressed the hope that the abducted girls will be released unharmed even before Tuesday, April 29 when the rally is expected to hold.

It however said until this happens, it will be insensitive and indecent for anyone, least of all the President who is the father of the nation, to engage in any celebratory outing under any guise.

According to the party, the President must not repeat the faux pas he committed less than 24 hours after 75 of his compatriots were killed in the Nyanya bombing.

He said, All decent men and women were riled that President Jonathan went dancing at an illegal campaign stop in Kano and popping champagne corks at a birthday celebration in Ibadan when the smoke was yet to clear from the scene of the Nyanya bombing.

The President should not repeat the same mistake, if indeed he considered that to be one. He should see the missing girls as his own daughters and stop forthwith his illegal campaign rallies.

The APC said the ongoing bickering over the site of the rally in Adamawa State, close to the scene of the sad abduction of the girls, is distracting from what should be a concerted national effort to find the girls and reunite them safely with their families.

For a President whose groveling aides have likened to Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama and other great leaders in a patently blasphemous campaign, he should take time to ask himself how Obama would have reacted to one missing girl from any school in the US, not to talk of over 200 missing girls.

Does President Jonathan honestly believe that Mandela, in his days as President, would have been campaigning when his compatriots are being daily bombed or abducted?

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The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday warned the Peoples Democratic Party and the other contestants in the Ekiti and Osun governorship elections against rigging, saying election riggers in the two states would be roasted.

The ex-governor of Lagos State said, No government that wants peoples votes will be doing what they are doing. They are already planning to rig the elections but be ready to protect your votes; nobody serves you freedom a la carte. It is going to be rig and roast.

We are prepared not to go to court but to drive you out. We will not take it anymore. If you mess up in Ekiti and Osun states, you will see our reactions. For every action, there must be a reaction.

Tinubu spoke at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, during his investiture as the chancellor of the university and the conferment of doctoral degree in Management Science on him.

The governorship poll in Ekiti is scheduled for June 21 while that of Osun comes up August 9.

The APC chieftain slammed the President Goodluck Jonathans government as married to corruption, saying the war against corruption by the government was a deceit.

He however said the leaders of the opposition party were ready to cooperate with the President and the Federal Government to find solution to the scourge of terrorism in the country.

The opposition leaders promise of cooperation came ahead of Thursdays (today) meeting of the President with the 36 state governors and security chiefs to discuss the escalating insurgence in the country.

The former Lagos State governor said that all Nigerians, irrespective of their political leanings or religious beliefs, must rise up against rising terrorism in the North-East, which he said had resulted in the deaths of many innocent citizens.

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To that end, the group is holding its spring strategy session on Saturday at the Teamsters Union Hall in West Columbia, where, according to Director Brett Bursey, the network will polish its message and decide whom to target. The networks three core issues are expanding Medicaid to the poor under Obamacare, funding education and protecting voting rights.

Bursey said Monday the planning process will involve calculating incumbents vulnerability and their voting records to prioritize them as targets.

One list were looking at is the 31 House members that are sponsors of the reintroduced son-of-nullification bill that aims to undermine Obamacare in South Carolina and would specifically outlaw an expansion of Medicaid, Bursey said.

The bill came about after conservative state legislators conceded that South Carolina does not have the constitutional authority to nullify the Affordable Care Act, a federal law. Bursey argues that such extremism is the will of only a tiny fraction of eligible South Carolina voters who, by dominating GOP primaries, have an outsized voice in setting South Carolinas policies.

Youre looking at single digits, like 4 or 5 percent of the people in South Carolina, that are anointing these tea party wackos in the primaries to set our state policy, he said. Thats insane. Literally, its insane, letting people that are against government run your government.

Well have [targeted incumbents] listed, and were going to try to prioritize them as far as whos most vulnerable, like a triage. If a person is bleeding, well go stir up the sharks. We want to go into the House districts and go to the churches that these people go to and ask the what kind of theology theyre spreading that Rep. So-And-So, who goes to their church, would be denying the least of us health care.

Its a name-and-shame strategy that Bursey says worked in 2012, when the group was trying to get a Senate floor vote on Medicaid expansion. He said the Progressive Network found like-minded congregants in the churches of Sens. Ray Cleary (R-Georgetown) and Paul Thurmond (R-Charleston), neither of whom could be considered tea party stalwarts, who were able to persuade the two Republicans to vote in favor of Medicaid expansion.

The Progressive Networks spring strategy meeting is scheduled to run from 10 a.m. till 5 p.m. on Saturday at the Teamsters new union hall, 2604 Fish Hatchery Rd., West Columbia. The public is welcome but ther

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