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Babatunde Saka | credits: Olaleye Aluko

An All Progressives Congress ward chairman, Alhaji Babatunde Saka, who was declared missing, has been found dead and abandoned on the Lekki-Epe Expressway, Lagos.

Saka, 67, was the APC ward chairman of Ward C of the Orile Agege Local Council Development Area, Lagos State.

PUNCH Metro had reported on Tuesday, November 9, that Saka had been missing from home for about three days.

It was also reported that the chairman, a native of Agbowa, Ikorodu, Lagos, went missing shortly after he returned from a trip to Abeokuta, Ogun State where he went to treat an illness, which had to do with cerebral fever.

Speaking with PUNCH Metro on Saturday, the deceaseds younger brother, who identified himself simply as Baba Saka, said the chairman was found dead on the expressway and was initially picked up by the Lagos State Ambulance Services.

He added that Saka, as a result of the brain sickness, had lost track of his home and wandered away to the Lekki area.

He said, We think that when he became too weak to go further, he laid by the roadside. He had a loss of memory. It was the LASAMBUS which picked him up. He was still alive by then.

They found his Permanent Voter Card on him and it was the address on the card that was used to trace the family. He died while he was being taken home. Eventually, they found us and we collected his corpse. That was on Thursday.

Our correspondent gathered that the late chairman was taken to his hometown in Agbowa, and had been buried on Friday.

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The All Progressives Congress has re-echoed the allegations made by the immediate past Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, that the Subsidy Re-investment and Empowerment Programme federal task force was being used by the Peoples Democratic Party leaders to perpetuate electoral violence.

The ruling party called on the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Suleiman Abba, to investigate the claim by Obanikoro.

Obanikoro had said officials of the task force were allegedly hired by a leader of the PDP in the state, Chief Bode George, to perpetuate violence at the governorship primary in the state last week.

At the primary, the number of votes cast (863), exceeded the number of voters (803).

However, the APC in a statement by its publicity secretary, Mr. Joe Igbokwe, on Sunday, said security agencies should not take the allegations likely as it could mar the conduct of the elections next year.

The party described the task force as a ruse with which the PDP is recruiting and arming hoodlums with the money realised from the inhuman increment of fuel pump price in January 2012.

The APC said that the revelation from a group within the Lagos PDP called Action Support for Democracy that George used armed thugs in SURE-P vehicle to rig the contentious Lagos State PDP governorship primary for his choice, Jimmy Agbaje, had proved the nefarious role SURE-P is being used in Lagos.

It added, We are surprised that the relevant security agencies have been looking the other way since this illegal task force started assembling. We raised the alarm that the PDP, in its desperation, is diverting parts of the SURE-P funds for which Nigerians have been subjected to untold suffering towards forming an armed and illegal group that are being used to cause mayhem and collateral damage in the peace and security of Lagos and for the purpose of rigging the next elections.

We recall that this illegal group had started contesting for the territorial land of Lagos and for the control of traffic in the metropolis, which is a huge ruse to confuse Nigerians about their real mission.

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The All Progressives Congress on Sunday said the party was yet to pick a running mate for its presidential candidate, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari.

The APC, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, said the public should ignore all the permutations that had been made on who would be Buharis running mate, saying the choice of the running made would be made within the context of the best democratic ideals.

The party spokesman said the leadership of the APC were yet to meet and had not picked a running mate for its presidential candidate.

He said, We are using this opportunity to tell Nigerians to pray for us as we get set to pick a running mate for our presidential candidate. This is because this choice is not just for us but for all Nigerians.

We are assuring Nigerians that the choice of our presidential running mate will also be guided by best democratic ideals.

We appreciate the nationwide interest that the choice of our presidential candidate and his running mate has generated.

It is a mark of the confidence that Nigerians have in us and we want to assure Nigerians that we will not disappoint them.

Meanwhile, the Professional Youths for Good Governance of Nigeria on Sunday described the emergence of Buhari as the presidential candidate of the APC as a good development that would deepen democracy in the country.

The group, in a statement by its National President, Mr. Tunde Daromosu; and National Coordinator, Mr Nasir Abdulquadri, said the APC presidential convention showed that Nigerians were determined to make the right choice and create impact to take the country back on track.

It said, The party showed its preference for democratic principles through a very transparent, credible and hitch-free presidential primary that produced a Nigerian of impeccable and incorruptible character, which has restored hope for a better future for Nigerian youths

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A re-count of votes in the Fisher by-election in South Australia will begin this morning after Labor's Nat Cook claimed victory over the Liberals' Heidi Harris by 23 votes on Saturday.

The Liberals have raised concerns about whether ballots marked with crosses as well as numbers should be considered as valid.

Electoral Commissioner Kay Mousley said the re-count was approved to remove any doubt of a fair result.

"I think for transparency reasons it's best that we give a recount," she said.

"It is a close outcome and this way there can be no doubt in anyone's mind that we have got the right result."

She said the Liberals were concerned with some of the formality decisions.

"So we will go back through all of those informal ballot papers to ensure that there has been a determination made and it quite will be that we still won't agree, but that's fine," Ms Mousley said.

"We know the provisions of the electoral act and what is formal and what's not.

"So we'll discuss those on a case by case basis to ensure that everyone is comfortable that we've looked at the papers again and given due consideration to all those that might have been excluded from the count originally."

Political commentator Dr Clem Macintyre told 891 ABC Adelaide this morning the Liberals had nothing to lose by asking for a recount.

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