Metuh to his credit presciently told this correspondent sometime around April, 2015, that the future of the PDP was in wooing Atiku Abubakar, who was then in the APC back to the party and making him the 2019 presidential candidate!
There are more than 60 other candidates, though their chances of winning are slim as the wealth and patronage networks of the two main parties drive the politics of Africa’s top oil producer and most populous country.
We had some semblance of democratic election in 1999 but since then, the political class has been bereft of nobility and majesty that should nurture democracy in Africa’s only source of hope and development, Nigeria.
Buhari’s 2015 victory with his All Progressives Congress (APC) party was built on three promises: to rid Nigeria of endemic corruption, fix the economy and tackle security threats.
Buhari’s 2015 victory with his All Progressives Congress (APC) party was built on three promises: to rid Nigeria of endemic corruption, fix the economy and tackle security threats.
In 2015, Nigerians went to the polls torn between the devil and the deep blue sea: Goodluck Jonathan, the then incumbent whose administration was corrupt and largely inept; and Muhammadu Buhari, a perennial presidential candidate with an unsavoury...
Senate President Bukola Saraki has perhaps been the boldest person to express what many claim as the hidden interest of many of the country’s leading political actors ahead of this weekend’s election.
Interestingly and surprisingly, it is the APC and Buhari that are acting like the opposition and underdogs, issuing threats at the international community and throwing mud at the PDP and Atiku and making fresh promises to the electorate rather tha...
Atiku gave the assurance while addressing thousands of party faithful at a presidential rally at the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium in Port Harcourt on Monday.
Two persons have been reportedly injured as supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the All Progressives Congress, APC, clashed in Abraka community in Ethiope-East Local Government Area of Delta State.
Among references to the current president's "dictatorial tendencies" as contained in the article are the "extraconstitutional suspension" of Walter Onnoghen as the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), his decision to "serially ignore" court orders, har...
Atiku gave the assurance while addressing thousands of party faithful at a presidential rally at the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium in Port Harcourt on Monday.
While many civil society groups, as well as opposition figures are expressing doubts over the sincerity of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)-led government’s ability to conduct a free, fair and credible general elections, the Independent ...
Atiku’s failure to ensure the reconstruction of all the roads leading to Adamawa during his tenure as Vice President, between 1999 and 2007, has also earned him rebuke from the people of the state as his major concern was to build a solid business...
But in a statement issued in Abuja, yesterday, by Atiku’s Special Assistant on Public Communication, Mr. Phrank Shaibu, the PDP presidential candidate said his close political associates were being targeted for arrest by APC-led Federal Government...
That was the view espoused by the state governor, Henry Seriake Dickson, when he served as head of the reconciliation committee put together by the party to harmonise disparate positions and interests in the wake of the leadership tussle in PDP.
In his remarks at the signing ceremony, President Buhari said that the most important thing about the exercise was for the candidates to accept the final outcome even as he said that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had already...
ABUJA- DEPUTY Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, Saturday said that the 2019 presidential contest would be keen, just as he stressed that it was an indication that the decision of several chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, him...
While political parties were preparing to commence their electioneering campaign, a dark cloud of despondence descended on the APC as a federal high court in Port Harcourt granted an injunction which restrained the party’s nominees from parading t...
Today, Nigeria is a deeply divided country, falling short in virtually all human development indices, but setting abysmal records in most national vices as a result of inept, clueless and rapacious political leadership.
In Anambra State, the recent road show by the PDP running mate, Obi, and other leaders of the party could be described as a huge success going by the mammoth crowd that followed them in all the cities and markets where the campaign train passed th...