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Embattled National Cha-irman of All Progressive
Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Chekwas Okorie, has alleged that President Olusegun Obasanjo influenced Ikemba Nnewi,
Chief Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu, to accept the position of the national leader of the factional group of the
party. Reacting to Ojukwu's acceptance letter dated January 21, Okorie said since the crisis within the party
became a public knowledge, he has briefed and consulted Ojukwu on all development but added that events changed
after the President spoke with Ojukwu on January 17. In a statement by Okorie, "Ojukwu told me that Chief
Victor Umeh and his group visited him in his hotel room and he told them that it is unacceptable to form an internal
problem of the party to be broadcast to the general public through a press conference... 
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IBB U.S. lobby flops
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 In the US, efforts by former military ruler
Ibrahim Babangida to garner international support for his interest in the plum job in 2007 suffered severe hitches.
It was learnt that his campaign platform is having hard times...
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Reps want Balogun probed
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 The House of Representatives reconvened
yesterday from a one-week sallah break to order investigations into the circumstances leading to the retirement
of the Inspector General of Police, Mr Tafa Balogun.
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We have strong evidence
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 The two British policemen who arrived Kaduna yesterday to give evidence on the money laundering
charges against Governor Joshua Dariye of Plateau State have said they have...
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Crisis in APGA
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 Crisis plaguing the All Progressive Grand
Alliance (APGA), may have deepened at the weekend, as the party's presidential candidate during the 2003 general
election, Dim Ojukwu...
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