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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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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.

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