FALAE REVIVES SDP, VOWS TO FIGHT GRAFT, POVERTY

Former Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Party in the 1999 general election, Chief Olu Falae, on Friday revived the Social Democratic Party in Abuja and stressed that the party had the capacity to lead Nigeria out of fears, poverty and corruption.
The party was initially formed in 1992 and won the 1993 presidential election when it fielded the late Bashorun Moshood Abiola as its flag bearer in the poll which was adjudged as the freest and fairest in the history of Nigeria.
Falae, who is the Interim National Chairman of the new SDP, on the occasion, lamented the spate of Boko Haram insurgency in the northern part of the country and challenged the federal government to trace the insurgents to their hideouts for proper destruction.
Specifically, Falae urged the President Goodluck Jonathan administration to stop the senseless massacre of innocent Nigerian children and women by the dreaded sect.
He said, “No nation can develop and be prosperous without stability and peace. The barbarity which Boko Haram is perpetrating in the north eastern zone of the country is an evil which this nation must not tolerate any further.

YORUBA ELDERS ACCUSE JONATHAN OF MARGINALISING S’WEST

Yoruba elders under the aegis of Yoruba Unity Forum have accused President Goodluck Jonathan of favouring other sections of the country to the detriment of the South-West geo-political zone in the appointment of top government officials.

The YUF said this at a press conference it addressed in Ibadan on Wednesday.

According to the elders, the marginalisation of the South-West zone in the distribution of political positions is an attempt to excise the zone out of the federation.

At the conference were Bishop Bolanle Gbonigi, Senator Bode Olajumoke, Senator Kofoworola Bucknor-Akerele, Senator Mojisoluwa Akinfenwa, Senator Femi Okurounmu, Tokunbo Ajasin, Chief Olu Falae, and Chief Biola Ogundokun, among others.