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The All Progressives Congress on Monday commiserated with Vice President Namadi Sambo on the death of his younger brother, Capt. Yusuf Sambo, in a road crash in Abuja.

The condolence was expressed in a statement issued in Lagos by the partys Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.

The statement said that the party expressed shock and sadness at the death of such a vibrant personality in such a tragic circumstance.

Death is never easy to accept and when it is so unexpected, it adds to the grief.

But the sweet memories and good deeds of the departed will always be a balm to sooth the indescribable pain of death.

We sincerely sympathise with the Vice President, the immediate family of the departed as well as his extended family.

We pray that God will strengthen and comfort them all in this difficult time, it said.

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The All Progressives Congress has hailed the reported suspensionof the PDP rally scheduled for Adamawa State on Tuesday, in line withthe prevailing mood of the nation, especially the abduction of over200 school children in Borno State.

In a statement issued in Lagos on Monday by its Interim NationalPublicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party called thesuspension the very right decision to take under the circumstance.

It said the suspension of the rally has shown that President GoodluckJonathan is beginning to hearken to the voices of his compatriots onimportant national issues.

As we said in a statement we issued on April 24, it smacks ofinsensitivity, inhumanity and indecency for our President and otherleaders to be engaged in any celebratory venture when we do not yetknow the fate of the school girls who were abducted from their schooland taken to an unknown destination.

We also said the President should not repeat the same mistake hemade by flying to Kano to dance at a political rally even as the smokewas yet to clear from the scene of the Nyanya bus park bombing. We are delighted that good sense has prevailed this time, it said.

The party said while the President does not have to shut down thegovernment, he must continue to shun all celebratory public outingsuntil all the school girls have been safely reunited with their families.

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Asiwaju Bola Tinubu | credits: File copy

The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress says the call by the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party for the arrest of the national leader of the APC, Bola Tinubu, is mischievous.

The APC added that since Tinubu called for the roasting of those who would rig the coming governorship election in Ekiti and Osun states, the PDPs reaction showed that it was defending the continued subjection of elections in Nigeria to manipulation and rigging.

In a statement by the Lagos State Publicity Secretary of the APC, Joe Igbokwe, the party wondered why the PDP always grew paranoid whenever the issue of punishment for election riggers cropped up.

Igbokwe said the Lagos PDP, by its reaction, was also publicising the readiness of the party to continue to tow the line of electoral criminality through shamelessly stealing every election and subjecting the country to the scourge of corrupt unelected leadership.

He said, We are not surprised that it is the PDP that has come in defence of election rigging because we know the history of the party.

That the state chapter of a party that has been ruling the country for the past 15 years can come out and make an endorsement of election rigging as the call for Tinubus arrest for warning against election rigging portends shows that Nigerians have not witnessed the last of the PDPs bizarre electoral frauds.

We therefore warn Nigerians to be on their guards as the Ekiti and Osun governorship elections approach and the 2015 elections draw nearer.

Igbokwe said the state of the country with wrecked infrastructure, corruption, governmental incompetence and embarrassing cluelessness, general state of insecurity and hopelessness were products of electoral fraud.

The Lagos APC spokesman disagreed with the state PDP that Tinubus statement was capable of worsening the security situation in the country.

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Analysis

Victorian Premier Denis Napthine. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Youd think a Liberal party room meeting at the start of a crucial parliamentary sitting week in an election year might focus on the big questions confronting the government.

Things like: how to recapture the political high ground; how to wedge Labor; whether opinion polls matter eight months out from an election; how best to allocate scarce resources.

The fact the Liberal Party spent the best part of an hour on Tuesday morning talking about itself is a very worrying sign indeed for Denis Napthine.

The party is starting to bicker. The danger is this develops into open hostility which can quickly become a downward spiral. Just ask the federal Labor Party.

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There are tensions along several fault lines. Old factional wounds have been reopened between progressive and conservative elements of the party. There are tensions as key players jockey for place as Napthines heir apparent and there are tensions between state and federal Liberals.

If Victorian Liberal president Tony Snell was expecting an easy run when he addressed the party room on Tuesday morning, he was sorely mistaken. Snell was asked by Napthine to simply address the party on the process for upper house pre-selections.

What he got was a barrage of angry questions, highlighting the extent of the tensions dogging the party. Former Premier Ted Baillieu arced up, asking whether federal MPs will be told to ''stay out'' of future preselection brawls.

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Ontarios governing Liberals say theyre willing to put up $1-billion to develop an all-season transportation corridor to the Ring of Fire if the federal Conservatives match the funds.

Ottawa must help bear the cost of building the infrastructure thats needed to develop the mineral-rich region, create jobs and boost northern Ontarios hard-hit economy, they said Monday.

We are coming to the table with our best offer and we need the prime minister and his team to join us there, said Michael Gravelle, Ontarios minister of northern development and mines.

The province has maintained that the Harper Conservatives should be actively involved in the Ring of Fires development as they have for other projects, such as the Alberta oilsands.

The Ontario Chamber of Commerce has estimated that the project could generate $9.4-billion in new economic activity over the next decade and support 5,500 jobs a year.

It said it would also provide the federal, Ontario and municipal governments with almost $2-billion in revenue over that period and $6.7-billion over 32 years.

But the lack of a transportation route has been a major barrier to developing the Ring of Fire about 500 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay, Ont. which is believed to contain one of the largest chromite deposits in the world.

The project suffered a major setback last November, when a big mining company that was going to pour $3-billion into the Ring of Fire suddenly pulled out.

Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. suspended its operations indefinitely, saying it couldnt keep spending money while the question of whether it would be able to build an all-weather road to the remote site remained in doubt.

Noront Resources Ltd., which wants to develop its Eagles Nest and Blackbird mining projects, said the provinces commitment is a vital milestone that will benefit remote First Nations communities.

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