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Christopher Enai and Henry Seriake Dickson were the only three candidates cleared by the committee as eligible candidates to contest in the upcoming Guber election.
The Present governor of the state, Timipre Sylva, was also excluded from the race on allegations of operating foreign accounts.
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Dominic, alongside her co-host, singer Lanre Dabiri, also known as Eldee made an excellent mess of their performance as hosts at the award show held on Saturday, October 22, 2011 at the Eko Hotel and Suites, Lagos.
Perhaps, Eldee, who as a performer was expected to be used to attract a large crowd, was infected by Rita Dominic's regrettable performance. However, his performance was way upbeat than Rita's as he helped the actress get into the mood a couple of times but a timid Rita was just too nervous to comport herself.
I learnt that the award founder, Ayo Animashaun, was displeased and embarrassed by the actress' performance as he described it as "crap."
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Other industry big guns at the event also noted that Rita Dominic's performance was the worst in the history of the awards.
However, many also berated Eldee for lighting a cigar and puffing it at quick intervals on stage at the time a sensitive documentary such as incessant 'rape' of teenage girls and women in general was rolling on the projector.
Meanwhile, 36-year-old internationally acclaimed pop singer, 2face Idibia, emerged the biggest winner of the night as he walked away with the awards for the Best R&B/Pop Album, Album of the Year and biggest award of the night Artiste of the Year.
With 'The Unstoppable International Edition' released in 2010, 2face edged out other contenders like D'banj, M.I, Darey, Dr. SID, Duncan Mighty and Asa.
Pop sensation, Wizkid won the Next Rated Award beating other contenders Tiwa Savage, oLamide and Ice Prince to win the coveted prize of a brand Hyundai Sonata.
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According to a source within Libya's National Transitional Council, London-educated Saif, 39, is terrified of receiving the same treatment as his father who met a grisly death last week at the hands of vengeful Libyan fighters.
Saif went on the run at the time of his father's capture and has indicated he is ready to surrender to justice like former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi, NTC officials have said.
Both men are the subject of arrest warrants from the International Criminal Court, where officials have not been able to confirm any approach.
They face charges of crimes against humanity for their response to February's uprising.
Conflicting reports of Saif al-Islam's whereabouts have circulated since he vanished from the Gaddafi stronghold of Bani Walid in the north of the country, with some accounts putting him, and Senussi, in Niger.
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The NTC source said Saif al-Islam had not left Libya and was being sheltered by a prominent figure among the nomadic Tuareg people of the desert, whom he had supported financially in the past.

According a source within the NTC ruling council Saif is terrified of meeting the same grisly fate as befell his father
The rugged and empty area close to the borders of Niger and Algeria has offered an escape route to others in his family.
However, under ICC indictment, Saif al-Islam would find it harder than his relatives to secure a safe haven abroad.
He was reported by an aide to be fearing for his life when he fled Bani Walid, and if he has seen the gruesome video footage of his father's capture, he is likely to be under few illusions about how he might be treated if he remains in Libya.
'Saif is concerned about his safety,' the NTC source said. 'He believes handing himself over is the best option for him.'
The source said Saif wanted the involvement of a third country - possibly Algeria or Tunisia - in a deal to get him to The Hague.
'He wants to be sent an aircraft,' the source said by telephone from Libya. 'He wants assurances.'
MY BOSS SHOWED NO FEAR: GADDAFI'S DRIVER TELLS OF FINAL MOMENTS
Colonel Gaddafi's driver has spoken of the dictator's final moments, claiming his boss showed no sign of fear before he was captured by rebels.
'Everything was exploding,' said Huneish Nasr. 'The revolutionaries were coming for us. He wasn't scared but he didn't seem to know what to do. It was the only time I ever saw him like that.'
Moments later the revolutionaries overran their position and Nasr was knocked to the ground with a rifle butt.
His final glimpse of Gaddafi was of him being dragged from a drainpipe and then surrounded by rebels who started to rain blows down on him.
Nasr and Gaddafi's head of security, Mansour Dhao, are believed to be the only survivors from the guards who accompanied the Libyan leader during his final resistance in Sirte.
They spent the five days before Gaddafi's death moving from house to house.
The former Libyan leader, Nasr said, appeared unable to understand how he had been reduced to such a position: 'He was strange. He was always standing still and looking to the west. I didn't see fear in him.'
Following his capture, Nasr was taken to a makeshift prison in Misrata.
'If any of the other close staff are still alive, I don't know where they are or what happened to them,' he said.
'may be somewhere with the revolutionaries, or they may be dead.'
Still dressed in the blood-stained purple shirt he wore on the day Gaddafi was killed, Nasr continued: 'I was with him for 30 years and I swear by God that I never saw any bad behaviour in him.
'He was always just my boss. I believed them when they said we are fighting bad people.'
Saif's whereabouts and intentions had been tracked by monitoring satellite phone calls, the source said, together with information contained in intelligence cables.
The NTC lacks the logistical capabilities to intercept fugitives deep in the desert. It has asked its Nato allies for further assistance as the Western mission winds up following the death of the ousted leader.
Nato officials have made clear, however, that they are keen to cut back their commitment now.
Saif had been seen by analysts as his father's heir-apparent and a potential reformer, but his bloodthirsty comments about the rebels this year forced a rethink.
Gaddafi loyalist security officials in Bani Walid this week told how the son called his father frequently by satellite phone and became increasingly afraid of being hit by incoming fire.
'He was afraid of mortars,' said al-Senussi Sharif al-Senussi, a lieutenant in Gaddafi's army who was also part of Saif al-Islam's personal security team.
'He seemed confused.'

Mr Senussi, who is not related to Gaddafi's former security chief, said that Saif's convoy was hit by a Nato air strike as he fled Bani Walid but he escaped alive.
Saif is the last remaining member of the Gaddafi family currently at a large.
It emerged to day that family members currently hiding in Algeria plan to file a war-crimes complaint against Nato for the role they believe the international military alliance played in the former leader's death,
Marcel Ceccaldi, a French lawyer who previously worked for Gaddafi regime and now represents his family, said the complaint would be filed with the International Criminal Court in the Hague because the family believes a Nato strike on Kadafi's convoy led to his brutal death.
Libyan authorities have said he likely died in crossfire. Others, including the international rights advocacy group Human Rights Watch, believe he was executed.
But Gaddafi's family is convinced that he died as a result of Nato aircraft firing on his convoy as it fled Sirte.
'The willful killing [of someone protected by the Geneva Convention] is defined as a war crime by Article 8 of the ICC's Rome Statute,' Ceccaldi said.
'Gaddafi's homicide shows that the goal of [Nato] member states was not to protect civilians but to overthrow the regime.'
It was unclear when the complaint would be filed, but Ceccaldi said the lawsuit would target Nato executive bodies and leaders of the alliance's member states.
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The GCON has mostly been awarded to Vice-Presidents, Chief Justices of the country and Senate Presidents.
Dangote is ahead of Speaker Aminu Tambuwal who is getting a CFR, Commander of the Federal Republic alongside the Attorney General of the Federation, Mohammed Adoke and a number of military and security chiefs. The newly appointed Head of Service of the Federation, Alhaji Isa Sali, former First Lady Mrs. Victoria Gowon and a handful of former military chiefs were also recognized by the President for the CFR award.
A handful of serving and former members of the National Assembly including the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Chief Emeka Ihedioha, former Senator Joy Emodi, Senator Smart Adeyemi, Senator James Manager, Senator Uche Chukwumerije and Senator Udoma Udo Udoma were all recognized with the Commander of the Order of the Niger, CON.
Also a handful of serving ministers including Olusegun Aganga, Emeka Wogu, Godsday Orubebe, Diezani Allison Madueke and Dr. Usman Shamsudeen were also honoured with CON. Mr. Jim Ovia and Mr. Atedo Peterside two bankers were also honoured with the CONSTITUTION.
Nigeria's first female vice-chancellor, Prof. Grace Alele-Williams is honoured with an Officer of the Federal Republic, OFR alongside a number of Chief Justices of the states including the erstwhile Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Babangida Nguroje who resigned that position at the peak of the crisis in the House in 2007.
Nigeria's football captain, Joseph Yobo, 1984 bronze medalist Peter Konyegachi and Commonwealth medalist Mariam Usman are also honoured with the Member of the Order of the Niger, MON.
Nollywood artistes were also honoured. Among them are Ginevive Nnaji, Stephanie Okereke, Olu Jacobs and Kanayo O Kanayo who are receiving the Member of the Federal Republic, MFR award.
Mr. Osita Iheme popularly known as Pawpaw of the Aki and Pawpaw fame is also honoured with MFR. Chinedu Ikedieze known as Aki was honoured last year.
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Onyenaychi, described as one of Britain's most dangerous men, slashed PC Paul Madden's throat with a Stanley knife in front of terrified commuters near a bus stop.

The maniac lashed out at other officers and shouted: 'Let me finish him off.'
PC Madden, 23, collapsed with wounds to his neck, throat and face and would have died within three minutes through blood loss.
But he was spotted by Samad Tadjkarimi, 65, a retired heart surgeon who applied pressure to his neck to keep him alive long enough to receive emergency surgery.
Mr Tadjkarimi, who was doing his Christmas shopping in the area, had retired three weeks earlier. He said: 'It's very humbling that my intervention perhaps contributed to the outcome of possibly saving his life – a very brave young officer.
'It's my duty. I'm sure anyone in my profession would do the same.'
During his rampage in Ealing, west London, Onyenaychi stabbed Police Community Support Officer Piotr Dolata twice in the head as he tried to help. Mr Dolata, 27, needed 12 stitches.
PC Madden was also attacked and another PCSO, Steven Constable, was slashed twice but escaped serious injury because the thickness of his high-visibility jacket saved him.
Onyenaychi, of Stratford, east London, was found guilty of two counts of attempted murder, causing grievous bodily harm with intent, robbery and attempting to cause grievous bodily harm.
Judge Peter Beaumont, the Recorder of London, gave him two life sentences and ordered him to serve a minimum of 25 years after a nine-day trial at the Old Bailey.
Outside court Detective Chief Inspector John McFarlane said: 'He is one of the most dangerous men in Britain.'
Onyenaychi, who has committed violent offences since the age of 12, was out on licence from a two-year prison sentence for causing death by dangerous driving while high on drugs.
The attack on the three officers last December was the culmination of a six-day 'crime spree of lethal and extreme violence', said Brian Altman QC, prosecuting.
He told the jury that 6ft 2in Onyenaychi 'is a highly dangerous individual who thinks nothing of carrying a knife on him, a tool of his trade, and uses it as a lethal weapon when he wishes to do so'.
Mr Altman said Onyenaychi became agitated when challenged about his ticket on a bus in Ealing.
PCSOs recognised him by a distinguishing mark under his right eye as a man wanted for a previous attack.
When PC Madden arrived, he thought Onyenaychi might be armed and tried to arrest him.
'Without warning, the defendant ripped his hands from his pockets and moved towards the policeman,' said Mr Altman.
After an initial attack, he pulled the officer 'close in and, with force, cut him across the throat'. He stabbed PC Madden three or four times before colleagues were able to intervene.
Four days earlier, Onyenaychi stabbed a man five times, causing serious wounds, at a minicab office in Brentford, west London, after a failed robbery.
And two days before that, he stole a laptop computer from a man in Fulham, west London, after threatening him with a knife.
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The sickening incident happened in Luzhou, western China, when driver Ao Yong hit Xiong Maoke as he left home to walk to school.
Witness Zhang Shifen said: 'I saw the truck move back a little and then move forward again. Xiong became wrapped up in the wheel and the truck continued forward another ten yards.'
The tragedy comes just a week after two-year-old Yue Yue was knocked down by two vehicles on a busy market street. The child was ignored by 18 passers-by before someone came to her aid. She died in hospital a few days later.
In this latest incident passers-by said the lorry driver jumped from his cab after hitting the boy. They claimed Yong then asked: 'How much shall I pay?'
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After the latest incident, Yong denied reversing over the boy to kill him. Last night, police and government staff insisted Xiong died on impact.
A string of such horrific cases have led to soul-searching in China, where the economic boom has been blamed for fuelling materialism at the cost of compassion.
Handing over compensation if an accident victim dies is seen by many Chinese as cheaper than paying for lengthy hospital treatment. The Communist regime does not provide free healthcare for its 1.3billion citizens.

Ignored: In a similar incident the previous week, Yue Yue was left with horrific brain injuries and never recovered
The fear of high medical bills is also thought to be behind a second accident in China in which toddler Yue Yue was knocked down by two vehicles on a busy market street.
The gruesome ordeal, captured by security cameras, showed the bleeding child was ignored by 18 passers-by before she was picked up by a scrap picker and given to her mother, who rushed to the street looking for her.
A week after the accident, she died in hospital.
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