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"Today, we celebrate not just the successful conduct of a party exercise, but the reaffirmation of our collective commitment to unity, cohesion, transparency, and inclusivity." "The orderly and rancour free conduct of our ward congresses, is a clear evidence that we are institutionalising internal democracy in its truest form."

“Distinguished colleagues, the social media is already awash with reports that the Senate has literally rejected electronic transmission of results. That is not true. What we did was to retain the electronic transmission, which has been in the Act and was used in 2022. “So please, do not allow people to confuse you. If you are in doubt, we will make our final votes and proceedings available to you if you apply. "This Senate under my watch has not rejected the electronic transmission of results. It is in my interest as a participant in the next election for such to be done. So please don’t go with the crowd. “We have retained what was in the previous provision by way of amendment. That was all we did. The previous has made allowance for electronic transmission. So it is still there as part of our law. We cannot afford to go backwards,” Akpabio said.

Insecurity has been one of the most challenging headaches of the governor Monday Okpebholo-led administration of the All Progessives Congress (APC) since coming on board. In response, the administration galvanising all the security agencies in the State, have consulted all the known books for solution; giving backup with the necessary logistics support, but seemingly the expected result(s) is proving difficult to get like trying to crack a rock for gold.