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Bauchi Female Commissioner Resigns A female commissioner for Ministry for Environment in Bauchi State, Rifkatu Samson Dannah has resigned her appointment. This is coming at a time when Governor Abubakar had directed that appointees planning to contest in the 2019 election should resign and leave office. Dannah took the final decision after picking the All Progressive Congress’ nomination form to contest for State Assembly for Bogoro constituency. She said, her decision to contest was informed by the clarion call on her following positive achievement while she was an Assembly member. Dannah picked her form at the APC Secretariat in Bauchi amid massive support. Dannah’s resignation, according to the political adviser to governor Abubakar, Kawu Labaran followed the governors directive that contesting appointees should resign their appointment to concentrate on campaigns. Labaran Exclusively told DAILY POST in an interview in Bauchi that some appointees have earlier resign

Court Stops Ondo Electoral Body from Conducting LG polls An Ondo State High Court sitting in Akure has barred the State Independent Electoral Commission (ODIEC) from conducting the local government elections scheduled for December 1. In a suit marked Ak/195/2018 and filed by the Idowu Otetubi led faction of the state’s chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC against the party’s chairman in the state, Ade Adetimehin, the State Executive Committee of the party, the APC as well as the Ondo State Independent Electoral Commission (ODIEC), the applicant had prayed that the court should restrain the 4th defendant which is ODIEC from accepting any lists of candidates from the Adetimehin led faction of the party ahead of the December 1 local government polls. Justice Kolawole of the Ondo State High Court after hearing the submission of the applicant’s counsel, Tolu Babaleye, granted the prayer of the applicants and gave an order of interim injunction restraining ODIEC from condu