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LAGOS — SENATOR Annie Okonkwo, the Supreme Court affirmed senatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP for the 2015 polls in Anambra Central, has advised the All Progressives Congress, APC to accept defeat. (ghanapoliticsonline.com)
ALBANY — A leading New York labor leader, citing the «stunning defeat» of the Democratic senatorial candidate in Massachusetts, yesterday became the first top Democrat to endorse Attorney General Andrew Cuomo over David Paterson for governor. (nypost.com)
Cuomo had pledged to spend $ 10 million on behalf of Democratic senatorial candidates as a condition of receiving the Working Families Party's line in that year's gubernatorial election. (politico.com)