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Scores of former political office holders and Peoples Democratic Party chieftains on Friday condemned the burning of the party flags at the secretariat by supporters of Senator Iyiola Omisore and said that the party would win the September 22 governorship election in the state without the former governorship candidate of the party.

The former political office holders explained that the fight against the PDP by Omisore dated back to 2014 immediately after the last governorship poll in the state.

He added that JAAC also agreed that the sum of N300million should go towards paying allowances owed former political office holders at the LG level.

The party expressed regrets that Fayose was owing one month salary of less than N2bn when he took N9.6 b bailout, but paid only one month salary and refused to pay pensioners, leave bonus and severance allowances of former political office holders as approved in the protocols of the bailout approval.

Maintaining that the bailout is different from the regular federal allocation that can not be monitored by the allocating authority, it accused Fayose of playing with facts and the law to avoid scrutiny on how he spent the special funds specifically approved to pay backlog of salaries, pensions and other entitlements to former political office holders.

The very exciting day ended with a party which saw Senator Babafemi Ojudu and his entourage made up of political leaders, former political office holders, businessmen and women as well as colleagues and staff from the Presidency taking to the dance floor.

Those trials handed convicted former political office holders jumbo gaol sentences for corruption.

Not exact matches

Shortly before assuming office last year, Trump broke with tradition by ordering all of former President Barack Obama's political appointees to leave their ambassadorships immediately after the inauguration.

Demand in Argentina spiked in June when former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, whose policies put the country into a recession, announced that she was running again for political office.

Former caretaker prime minister Panagiotis Pikramenos, his voice at times breaking as he addressed the lawmakers, noted he had only been in office for 35 days at a time of political and economic turmoil in Greece.

As a former public office holder, he is forbidden by law from lobbying the federal government for a period of five years as of the date of his political retirement in 2016.

Clark was a former Liberal, having worked as a staffer at the Legislature during Laurence Decore «s time as party leader (Clark's father, Gilbert Clark, was 823 votes away from ending Ralph Klein «s political career when the former mayor first ran for provincial office in Calgary - Elbow in 1989).

The court also mandated INEC to recognise the National Caretaker Committee of the PDP headed by Sen. Ahmed Markarfi, former Governor of Kaduna State in all matters pertaining the conduct of Primary Elections for Political Offices and the submission of the PDP List of Candidates for any elections to be conducted by INEC pending the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice.

Meanwhile, there are reports of uneasy calm at the Ridge and Adjiriganor residences of the former first family whose shifty political stands are said to have sharply divided their household, resulting in the dismissal of some workers including security details at their residence and offices.

«Any time (former Senate Majority Leader) Joe Bruno was criticized, our members postage or printing allotment would be shut off; they denied us access to government websites (serviced by the same firm handling the Republicans» political websites); Senate Republicans even went so far as to force several of our members to operate without district office space for months at a time.»

Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford completed a political comeback earlier this year, winning a House seat in a special election after he publicly admitted to having an affair while in the governor's office.

The former councilman, who also served a brief stint in the state attorney general's office, has not officially announced a challenge to Klein, but he has discussed a possible run with the IDC leader's political nemesis, DSCC Chairman Mike Gianaris.

At least, we all now know that concern for the - people is no more the primary motivation for the political actions and utterances of former President Rawlings, otherwise, he and his wife would NOT have taken nearly USD$ 5 Million from we - the - people fraudulently under the cover of judgment debt after failing to account to the same people after leaving office with indemnity clauses!

Former President Barack Obama sent the first overly political tweet since leaving office, in response to Jimmy Kimmel's pro-Obamacare new baby story that's blowing up the interwebs.

In his first public appearance after the corruption conviction of a former top aide, Joe Percoco, Cuomo acknowledged he had known that Percoco was using government offices while working for the governor's 2014 campaign team, but said he believed the work was not political and related to the transition.

The Justice Department's inspector general, facing increasing political pressure from Republicans in Congress and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, said that his office would investigate the surveillance of a former Trump campaign official, Carter Page.

The head of the state Republican Party, Chairman Ed Cox, has filed a complaint alleging that Cuomo and his former closest aide, Percoco, broke laws meant to prevent government offices from being used to run political campaigns.

Former President John Dramani Mahama has said members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), are not scared of the Office of the Special Prosecutor despite the threats by some political commentators that the office will jail many appointees of the former government for allegedly indulging in corruption - related activFormer President John Dramani Mahama has said members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), are not scared of the Office of the Special Prosecutor despite the threats by some political commentators that the office will jail many appointees of the former government for allegedly indulging in corruption - related activOffice of the Special Prosecutor despite the threats by some political commentators that the office will jail many appointees of the former government for allegedly indulging in corruption - related activoffice will jail many appointees of the former government for allegedly indulging in corruption - related activformer government for allegedly indulging in corruption - related activities.

The group, with the help of newly hired political consultants tied to former Mayor Bloomberg, including Tusk Strategies, has had «extensive conversations with the mayor's office» and has met with 41 of 51 Council members in recent months, the source said.

Former vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, has reacted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)'s call, for debates among candidates running for political offices in 2019.

The man mounting what he admits is a longshot campaign to unseat Farrell from the office he has held since 1974 is 25 - year - old political newcomer named Ariel Ferreira, a former NYC Council staffer and consultant.

She began her political career as spokesperson in the press office of the governor's father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo.

As Ben notes, former City Council President and longtime New York political insider Andrew Stein was indicted on tax charges out of the Manhattan federal prosecutor's office, part of a large bust involving a financial adviser to the stars.

In recent years, the sheriff's office was involved in a federal investigation into political corruption in Suffolk that led to the conviction of Edward Walsh, the former corrections lieutenant under the outgoing sheriff, Vincent DeMarco.

The fraud convictions of two former campaign aides to city Comptroller John Liu has not helped his run for higher office, but the jury's decision may influence whether the Queens Democratic Party will endorse the lawmaker's mayoral bid, borough political observers said.

Guy Molinari, the former borough president and congressman, was knocked as a career pol when he ran unsuccessfully for district attorney, as was former - DA and now - Congressman Daniel Donovan, though he had served some time in the Manhattan DA's office before moving into the political world.

Former president Umaru Musa Yar» Adua fell ill and died while in office in 2010, sparking months of political turmoil.

Baroni testified that Christie told him to hire Wildstein, and that the former political blogger became the main contact with the governor's office.

BROOKLYN — A former political rival to Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson who later became a high - ranking official in his office quit after being accused of sexually harassing a prosecutor who worked for him, DNAinfo New York has learned.

The former Nevada state legislator who has been unsuccessful in several bids for federal offices announced this and plans to produce a documentary in an e-mail sent to supporters by her political committee, Our Voice PAC.

Although a majority of voters do not want the former governor to run for office this year, the electorate isn't ruling out a political return for Spitzer in the future.

While it's been a while, back in 2005 and 2006, he doled out political contributions to Queens Democrat Melinda Katz, as well as to Brooklyn Democrat David Yassky and former City Council Speaker Gifford Miller in their bids for public office.

DiFalco, a former special victims prosecutor in the Rockland County DA's Office, said, «This year it seems to be probably more political.

It was Gustavo Rivera, a 34 - year - old part - time college professor and former political staffer who has never held elected office, and who is now running for the State Senate against a well - financed incumbent senator of his own party.

The former political adviser to Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama said he has seen Clinton's work firsthand and encouraged her to seek the office.

He said he supported Deacon over the other two Democratic candidates because she grew up in Syracuse, attended Syracuse schools, and worked her way up in the political arena, working for former Syracuse Mayor Matt Driscoll and U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand before running for office this year for the first time.

Newsday interviewed former county aides, political analysts, family friends and administration critics to discuss Mangano and his time in office.

A former spokesperson to immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe, has said that if President Muhammdu Buhari must resign, due to his ill health, the interest of his political associates who worked tirelessly to bring him into office must be accommodated.

Former Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner formed a campaign committee in an apparent step toward running for statewide office, allowing her to begin collecting political contributions.

The office of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is seeking payment of $ 330,000 from former State Assemblyman Vito J. Lopez after he failed to pay a fine from a sexual harassment scandal that doomed his political career.

«Young people of color, African - Americans and Latinos definitely showed more interest in running for office than whites,» said Richard Fox, a Loyola University political science professor and former Union College professor who along with Jennifer Lawless (a Union grad) co-authored «Running From Office,» a book looking at political apathy among young poffice than whites,» said Richard Fox, a Loyola University political science professor and former Union College professor who along with Jennifer Lawless (a Union grad) co-authored «Running From Office,» a book looking at political apathy among young pOffice,» a book looking at political apathy among young people.

Mr. Rivera, a former political aide who is running for office for the first time, has received significant support from unions, donors and elected officials across the state in his bid for the northwest Bronx seat.

He's cutting a new path as a left - wing Democrat in the office, said George Arzt, a political consultant and former press secretary to Ed Koch.

The biggest windfall went to Cuomo's right - hand and, Joe Percoco, who started as an advance man with former Gov. Mario Cuomo and has been with the current governor's side through every step of his political career — from HUD to the failed 2002 campaign to the AG's office.

This would have required legislative action and wasn't something the Assembly — DiNapoli's former political home, and the body responsible for putting him in the comptroller's office — would not likely support.