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Emails making the rounds among leftist voices show former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton might not be the shoe-in Democratic presidential pick after all many consider too hawkish and far too buddy-buddy with Wall Street.

The emails, obtained by The Hill, show a growing dissatisfaction among progressives.

The progressives have formed a group called Gamechanger Salon, and its made up of roughly 1,500 activists, journalists and political watchers who trade thoughts and policy proposals and discuss the looming White House run.

And the general consensus is Mrs. Clinton is not their first choice.

Some of the emailers criticized her hawkish tendencies, The Hill reported. Others chided her as a Wall Street wanna-be or at the very least, a friend of Big Business. And still others say shes not done enough to press for climate change policy reforms, The Hill said.

[A] Clinton presidency un-dos all our progress and returns the financial interests to even more prominence than they currently have, wrote Melissa Byrne, an Occupy Wall Street activist, in a November 2013 email, The Hill reported.

Many more would rather see an Elizabeth Warren presidency though the Massachusetts senator has publicly stated several times her refusal to run.

The establishment Dems need to be punished and the best way for that to happen is for Warren to beat Hillary in the primary on a populist message, wrote Carl Gibson, a progressive activist and Occupy.com writer, The Hill reported.

And even though some of the emails are months old, the call from the progressive camp for Mrs. Clinton to stand down her White House aspirations if they even exist has only grown stronger, The Hill reported.

Concerns havent changed, and progressives are probably more worried at this point rather than less, said Mike Lux, one of the website groups active members, to the Hill.

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Fotmer Anambra State Governor, Mr. Peter Obi

A former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, has lamented the decay in the education sector, insisting that no political party in the country has a framework for education.

The All Progressives Grand Alliance leader said this at the 2014 Founders Day Lecture which was held in commemoration of the 105th anniversary of Kings College in Lagos on Thursday.

He said, Today, I do not think any party in Nigeria has a vision about education; that is the truth. I am a politician and I belong to a political party but I can tell you that there is none that has a plan and I can back this up with the statistics of the result of WASSCE (West African Senior School Certificate Examination).

When Tony Blair (ex-United Kingdom Prime Minister) was campaigning, he emphasised education and when he got there, he dealt squarely with the issue of education. Here we promise one thing when we are campaigning but deliver another thing when we are in office.

The former governor added that one of the reasons why Nigerias standard of education was low was not because of lack of funds but the governments inability to effectively monitor the usage of funds which goes into the pockets of third parties instead of the schools that need them.

He boasted that he discontinued the trend in Anambra State and the state came first in WASSCE nationwide.

In Nigeria, all we talk about is minimum wage and not minimum productivity. People are paid better here than in Ghana and other countries and yet they produce more. In Anambra we did not increase funds but only increased the monitoring. The money went where we wanted it to go, he said.

At the event themed, Vision for Education in Nigeria, the chairmen of both the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party were supposed to speak on the vision of their respective parties in the area of education.

While the National Chairman of the APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, was represented by a former Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Segun Oni; the PDP National Chairman, Adamu Muazu, did not attend and sent no representative.

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Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Kebbi State, Alhaji Attahiru Maccido, on Wednesday assured political officeaspirants that the party would be transparentinits primaries in the state.

We would work on what the voters or consensus suggest during the primaries,he said.

He made the statement in Birnin Kebbi during a visit by Alhaji Sule Sami, a governorship aspirant, to the partys secretariat.

Maccido called on the electoratein the state to rally round the party and support its candidates at all levels during the 2015 general elections.

Ealier, the aspirant saidAPCwouldaddress the nations challenges ofunemployment and insecurity if it won the polls.

He said the stateneeded competent and credible government that would listen and provide for the needs and aspiration of the electorate.

We would also conduct our electioneering campaigns with respect and maturity, devoid of inflammatory comments.

He called on the electorate toregister and collect their voter cards, to avoid beingdisenfranchised.

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