President Muhammadu Buhari has advised electorates in Ogun State to vote for the candidates of their choice without being violent.
The president who spoke to traditional rulers at a townhall meeting with Ogun State traditional rulers today, Monday in Abeokuta, the state capital, called on the rulers to educate their subjects on how to conduct themselves peacefully.
Buhari spoke against the background of a near violence that nearly marred the Ogun Presidential campaign rally held at the M.K.O Abiola Stadium in Abeokuta.
The two factions of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the candidate of the state Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, on the platform of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) had clashed at the rally ground.
Our reporter at the venue said that Governor Ibikunle, whose second tenure will expire after the forthcoming elections had openly asked Ogun people to vote for President Buhari of the APC and vote for APM candidate in the March 2nd Governorship election.
Missiles began to fly towards the Presidential podium when the former Governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola mounted the podium and was speaking in Yoruba language in favour of the APC governorship candidate.
The confusion, which saw many party supporters trouping out of the stadium as the atmosphare was charged, intensified when the APC national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole mounted the podium to speak and to present the party flag to APC governorship candidate, Dapo Abilene.
But the President, who looked worried as he addressed the traditional rulers, told the royal fathers that there was no need for people to go violence on the issue of election.
“I appeal to our royal fathers to educate their subjects on the need to show respect and vote whoever they want to vote for without being violent.”
He promised to look into the requests put forward by the traditional rulers even as he expressed satisfaction with the great roles his Vice, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has been playing in the federal government efforts at correcting the wrongs of the past.
Speaking earlier, the chairman of the Ogun State Traditional Council and Alake, Paramount ruler of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Aremu Gbadebo thanked President Buhari for bringing Nigeria back on track after years of mismanagement.
He expressed gratitude to the President for many things he had done in favour of the State, including network of roads, rail lines, honouring of late Chief M.K.O. Abiola and above all, the choice of Professor Osinbajo as his second in command.
The Alake assured President Buhari of over 60 percent votes from Ogun State in the Saturday Presidential poll
An erstwhile associate of the Presidential candidate of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, who authored a blog: Atiku From Obscurity To Limelight, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has given reason why he fell out with his friend even as he assured President Muhammadu Buhari of landslide victory in next Saturday’s presidential election. Reacting to rumour that he had switched over to the side of Atiku, Eze, currently a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the South-South region of the country, stressed that he had not have any pact with the former Vice President in his presidential quest, saying he had no reason to abandon the party (APC) he joined other progressive Nigerians to build,. Chief Eze was also the National Director of Strategy and Communications of the famous ‘Turaki Vanguard’, which the former Vice President used when he join forces with other great and patriotic Nigerians to ensure that General Olusegun Obasanjo did not succeed in his infamous third term agenda. A multiple awards winner for his inputs and contributions in fighting injustice in the Nigerian politics, Chief Eze was the Founder and President of the Igbo Crusaders and the South-South/South-East Amalgamation Movement (SSESEAM), which was used to fight and sustain the prowess of PDP in the Northern Eastern Nigeria from 1999 – 2006. Eze erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New PDP described as laughable the accusation by Senator Magnus Abe representing the South East Senatorial District of Rivers State and some of his aides that he (Eze) had been working as a double agent with Atiku to destabilise the APC, in order to return to him (Atiku) after collapsing the APC. “It is laughable and very childish of Senator Abe and his errand dogs, insinuating that I am from the South West region of Nigeria and that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar enlisted me on the pay roll of Intels and drafted me to stoke internal crisis in the APC to weaken the chances of the party and give the PDP an edge in the South-South region and afterwards run back to him if he clinches the presidency come February 16th 2019. “What Senator Abe and his misguided boys do not know is that I broke off from Atiku’s political family as far back as 2012 when his actions and politics no longer tally with my personal beliefs besides I don’t know the management of INTELS talkless of being their staff. Eze counseled Abe to try act in tandem with what the exalted office he occupies as a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, reiterating that Abe’s statements had sounded like those of a fellow from who has lost relevance in the politics of APC in the South-South region after resolving to join forces with enemies of President Muhammadu Buhari and APC to work towards denying APC of fielding candidates for the 2019 general elections in Rivers state, but added “God willing we are convinced that we will survive Abe’s devious plots”. He revealed that apart from the threatening statement from Abe and his supporters against him, he had been under pressure from some PDP bigwigs to rejoin Atiku in PDP, but maintained that at 61 he had passed the age of associating with any political party or group simply because of personal benefits, contrary to national consideration. “Why should I rejoin PDP to the determinant of APC, which is now poised to restore back Nigeria to Nigerians. A party that has restored the dignity of Nigeria and Nigerians before the international community. A government that has improved upon the railway system, constructed more roads within the country less than four years, compared to the sixteen years of looting and squandering experienced under PDP”, Eze said. “I will like to know what has changed in PDP to warrant him rejoinning the party and leave an APC administration doing her best to reposition the country for a greater tomorrow. To rejoin PDP and work with the likes of Governor Nyrsom and probably with Senator Abe in their divisive politics in Rivers State? God forbid! Eze concluded by saying that he doesn’t have any grudge against Atiku’s presidential ambition, but he is sorry that he stands no chance against President Buhari as those promoting him are only interested in squandering his money and not that they want to him to succeed.. “I am happy about this election as it will finally assist to retire General Olusegun Obasanjo, Bukola Saraki, Tambuwal, Abe, Dogara and their likes from the politics of Nigeria and usher in more creditable and patriotic leaders.”
President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that after his second term of another four finish in 2023, he will not break the constitutional provisions by seeking to extend it. The President, who spoke today, Sunday in Gusau, Zamfara State capital as he arrived to hold his presidential campaign rally, recalled that he had contested for the Presidency four times and that the next week Saturday’s will make it fifth. “It will be the fifth and the last. A second term is what the constitution allows, and I will not abuse the constitution.” Buhari who spoke at a meeting with the royal fathers at the Government House, expressed the determination of his administration to defend the country from criminals and insurgents. “We are determined to defend the nation and its people. We are disappointed with some of the things going on. You are responsible for the security of your neighbourhood. Being close to your people, you know them. You are still relevant. I am sorry this has extended to some of your families.” The President who referred to the deployment of a large number of security personnel to the state, said that security is also the business of the traditional rulers, not that of the police and other security agencies alone. “More security is not good news, but we must do something to secure our environment,” he said even as he commended the gallantry of the security agencies in battling kidnapping and banditry. “You know what we have achieved. You had one (criminal) who styled himself as Buharin Daji, the Buhari of the forests, claiming to be in charge and not I at the centre. He is no more, and by my surviving him, you now know who is stronger.” He thanked the royal fathers for the support he enjoyed so far and appealed to them to back his re-election. The Chairman of the council of traditional rulers and Emir of Anka, Alhaji Attahiru Ahmed and the Governor, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar, praised the efforts of the President in changing the unwanted security situation in the state. This was even as the state governor, Abdulaziz Yari said: “from the presence of an ammunition depot manned by just 30 men when you took office in 2015, Zamfara State today boasts of the presence of 4,700 combined security personnel who are assisted by 8,500 State Joint Task Force, SJTF members. We also have the 223 Battalion, the 607 Quick Response Battalion and the 1 Brigade in Gusau.” Meanwhile, the State Council of Traditional Rulers have endorsed President Buhari’s bid for a second term.
President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina has said that corruption does not invest in the future but rather kill the future of any country that is neckdeep In it. Speaking today, Sunday at the World Peace Summit of Global Leaders, Adesina said: “we are working hard with governments to improve transparency, governance, accountability and project delivery across the continent. Corruption does not invest in the future, it kills the future.” According to the World Economic Forum, an estimated $116 billion a year would be required to feed the world and end hunger. It would also take $8.5 billion a year to eliminate malaria. “That’s only 0.28% of what’s lost to corruption globally every year,” said Adesina. “It would take $26 billion per year to send all kids in the world to school. The International Atomic Agency estimates that $31 billion per year would provide energy for all in the world. That’s just 1 per cent of what’s lost annually to corruption globally,” he added. The African Development Bank’s 2019 African Economic Outlook notes that Africa’s impressive economic growth is expected to be maintained at 4% in 2019, and 4.1% in 2020, with 40% of African countries projected to see even higher growth rates. Pitching Africa investment opportunities to government and business leaders during his visit to Seoul, Adesina said: “there is no better time to invest in Africa than now.” The Africa Continental Free Trade Area is projected to make Africa the largest free trade zone in the world, with an estimated combined GDP of over $3.3 trillion. With an eye on a “future that is just around the corner,” Adesina says the Bank is working to set up a joint Korea-Africa Tech Corps program designed to bring young and talented tech entrepreneurs in Korea and Africa into wealth creating partnerships, and position Africa to be part of the mainstream of the 4th Industrial Revolution.” The Busan Techno Park, the Busan Metropolitan City, the African Development Bank and the Government of Tunisia, are currently collaborating on a pilot Agricultural Drone project to help assess and monitor soil degradation, and provide real time data to improve productivity. The Bank intends to scale up the project across Africa, and develop other cutting edge uses of industrial drones across the continent. With a backdrop of an improving regional economy and a move toward creating a new generation of jobs for young Africans, Adesina says, “Today, millions of unemployed young Africans have no jobs and many take enormous risks to cross the Mediterranean to seek a brighter future in Europe. The fact is, there’s no pride in seeing thousands of young men and women drown in the turbulent waters of the Mediterranean. The future of Africa’s youth doesn’t lie in Europe. The future of our youth must lie in a thriving, prosperous and secure Africa.” At the Peace Summit for Global Leaders, the President of the African Development Bank highlighted key achievements in 2018, including, 5 million people with new or improved electricity connections; 19 million people who have benefitted from improved agricultural technologies; 1.1 million people who have benefitted from private sector investment projects; 14 million people who received access to better transport services and 8 million with improved access to water and sanitation. Adesina said the Bank could do more with the support of its 80-member countries who are currently discussing options for the institution’s general capital increase. “With a General Capital Increase scenario, if approved by the Bank’s shareholders, we would provide an additional 105 million people with access to electricity,137 million people with access to improvements in agriculture, 22 million people who would benefit from private sector investment projects, 151 million people with improved access to transport, and 110 million people with improved water and sanitation.” Adesina urged the Bank’s shareholders to make generous contributions in order to maintain momentum, create jobs for millions of African youth, position Africa in global value chains, and accelerate the African Union’s push towards Agenda 2063, “The Africa we want.”
President Muhammad I Buhari has assured Nigerians that he does not take the support they give him for granted. He said in a video message to Nigerians which was transcribed by his median team: ” I don’t take your support for granted. We will continue to work to protect your interest and deliver our mandate.” Read the full text below: Fellow compatriots, It’s been over three years since you gave me the mandate to oversee the affairs of our dear country. It’s not been an easy journey but with sincerity of purpose, perseverance, dedication and most importantly support from individuals like you, we have made great progress. Some of these achievements are visible for everyone to see, some are still in the works. I hereby humbly ask for your support again in the coming election to enable us to move to the NEXT LEVEL and consolidate on the successes recorded in making our country a better place. I don’t take your support for granted. We will continue to work to protect your interest and deliver our mandate. THANK YOU
Presidency: Lamido Of Adamawa Dumps Turaki Adamawa, Atiku For Buhari
Chairman of Adamawa Traditional Council who doubles as Lamido of Adamawa, Alhaji Barkindo-Mustafa, has turned his back on the Presidential ambition of his senior Council member, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and endorsed the candidacy of his opponent, President Muhammadu Buhari.
Atiku is the Turakin Adamawa and currently the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
President Buhari is running on the ticket of the ruling All Progressives Congress (PC).
In his endorsement letter to Buhari, the Monarch appealed to Nigerians to give him more time to actualise his dream for the country.
“Mr. President there is no doubt that much has been achieved during your present tenure, but certainly you need more time to actualise your dream for a better Nigeria.
“The giant strides and inroads you recorded in various fields of our endeavours such as economy, security and fight against corruption, which still remain the cornerstone of your agenda, would not have been made possible if not for your resilient, focus, passion and love for the country.
“This therefore calls for all and sundry to rally round you and allow you to get to the next level to enable you consolidate the various laudable programmes of your party.”
The Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwanu Akiolu has cautioned Nigerians not to take the country into the past socio economic rots even as he canvassed for votes to return President Muhammadu Buhari in the next week Saturday election.
The monarch, who decried the rot that past administrations left behind in the country, warned: “we should not go back to the past again.”
Oba Akiolu spoke yesterday when Present Muhammadu Buhari paid him Royal visit in his palace shortly before he held Presidential campaign rally in Lagos.
Oba Akiolu who spoke on behalf of the Lagos Traditional Council, described President Buhari as a man of his word.
“Now that you are here, In sha Allah, on February16, God will open the way for you. The best will happen to you.”
The traditional leader assured President Buhari that the body of traditional rulers in the state and across the country are solidly behind him because they appreciate his efforts as a highly respected person in Nigeria.
Oba Akiolu, who is the chairman of the Lagos State Traditional Council of Obas and Chiefs, thanked the President for his achievements since assuming office and urged Nigerians to continue to support him.
He said that he had a catalogue of requests, including mass transit and pressing issues on the Apapa ports, and that they have all been committed into writing.
Akiolu presented Buhari with a Quran as he prayed for him.
In his response, Buhari commended Akiolu’s appreciation of the efforts of his government.
“I appreciate all you have said and I assure you that I will continue to do my best.
“The promise we made through our party in 2015, our country needs to be secured and properly managed.
“If there is no security, we cannot do anything no matter your resources. We thank God our efforts have brought some fruits.”
He said that his government is working hard to end importation of rice and ensure self-dependence.
“We can feed ourselves and the money we save, we can put it in infrastructure; we are building the roads, we are building the rails and we are building power.
“But the failure of former administrations in spite of enormous revenue they got to develop infrastructure is amazing,” Buhari said.
He commended the Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Babatunde Fashola for his hard work and efficiency by keeping contractors on their toes, adding that he has done creditably well.
Zamfara State governor, Abdul’Aziz Yari Abubakar, has vowed that if the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) does not include the names of Zamfara APC candidates, there would be no elections in the state.
Yari made the vow during APC campaign rally in Talata Mafara town in Talata Mafara Local Government Area in continuation of his state-wide campaign tour for the February 16 and March 2 general elections in the state.
“There is no way elections will be conducted in Zamfara State without APC candidates despite Zamfara High Court verdict which confirmed that APC conducted primaries in the state,” he warned.
on February 16th, Nigeria will hold a general election. Four years ago, the country experienced its first democratic transfer of power to the opposition since 1999. The vote in a few days will be no less significant.
As president, I have tried to judiciously exercise the trust vested in me to combat the problems of corruption, insecurity and an inequitable economy. All are important. But amongst them, one stands above the others as both a cause and aggravator of the rest. It is, of course, corruption.
A policy programme that does not have fighting corruption at its core is destined to fail. The battle against graft must be the base on which we secure the country, build our economy, provide decent infrastructure and educate the next generation.
This is the challenge of our generation: the variable on which our success as a nation shall be determined. But the vested interests at play can make this fight difficult. By way of their looting, the corrupt have powerful resources at their disposal. And they will use them. For when you fight corruption, you can be sure it will fight back.
It even threatens to undermine February’s poll and – by extension – our democracy. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has raised concerns over laundered money being funnelled into vote buying. This is the problem of corruption writ large. It illustrates how it lurks in all and every crevice of public life, manipulating due process in pursuit of self-preservation and perpetuation; protecting personal political and economic interests at the expense of the common good.
Indeed, those who have criticised my administration’s anti-corruption drive are those who oppose its mission. And though their lawyers may craft expensive alibis, they cannot escape that which binds them together: a raft of documents and barely legal (some clearly illegal) mechanisms – whether that be the Panama Papers, US Congress reports, shell companies or offshore bank accounts.
Corruption corrodes the trust on which the idea of community is founded, because one rule for the few and another for everyone else is unacceptable to anyone working honestly.
But as we have intensified our war on corruption, so we have found that corruption innovates to resist the law. This is not the sole domain of those Nigerians, but the international corruption industry: the unsavoury fellow-traveler of globalisation.
Once the enablers are let in – as they have been in the past – the greed of those they collude with grows. We have closed the door on them, but unfortunately there still remain individuals who are willing to open windows.
Concrete progress has been made, but there is still much to do. We have repatriated hundreds of millions of dollars stowed away in foreign banks. These funds have been transparently deployed on infrastructural projects and used to directly empower the poorest in society. More is still to come from our international partners in France, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Yet the hundreds of billions sifted out of the country for the best part of this century promise more.
We have secured high profile convictions, but greater cases remain. Lawyers table endless objections to obstruct court proceedings, whilst their clients hope it lasts until a ‘friendly’ president is voted into office. We must continue to tighten the legal framework and ensure the authorities have the investigative powers at their disposal to secure sentences. Only then will we begin to neutralise the advantages the corrupt have.
More ghost workers must be removed from government payroll (almost $550 million has been saved from identifying phantom employees). More can be recovered through our whistle-blower policy ($370 million has been returned since its launch in 2016). More is still to come. But, together, we shall prevail over corruption.
A Yoruba proverb states that only the patient one can milk a lion. Likewise, victory over corruption is difficult, but not impossible. We must not flounder in our resolve. I know many Nigerians would like to see faster action. So do I. But so too must we follow due process and exercise restraint, ensuring allegation never takes the place of evidence. For that is not the Nigeria we should wish to build.
There is no doubt that this Administration has changed the way we tackle corruption. The choice before voters is this: Do we continue forward on this testing path against corruption? Or do revert to the past, resigned to the falsehood that it is just the-way-things-are-done? Or that it is just too difficult – too pervasive – to fix? I know which one I would choose. It is why I am asking Nigerians for another four years to serve them.
Muhammadu Buhari, President of the Federal Republic of Nigerian wrote in from Abuja.
The contentious season beckons again; and expectedly, the atmosphere is sweltering more than ever before. The polity is heating up as political foes get at daggers drawn. With tempers fraying, verbal shots are flying left and right, characters are being smeared, names dragged in the mud as propaganda machineries are fine-tuned, firing from all cylinders. And for spiritual fortification, by now, nearly all herbalists and ritualists’ dens have suddenly turned Mecca of some sort.
Welcome to Nigeria, a land of grubby politics run by desperate political gladiators. A land where politics is a do or die affair where you either take it by hook or crook; and where winners take it all and losers lose it all.
Like a sour grape in the mouth, electioneering in Nigeria is sadly characterized with such ignoble incidences as killings, kidnappings, maimings, intimidations, harassments,dollarization and vote buying – all cast into one block of psychological mind frame – do or die syndrome. Money, compromise and desperation are the lubricants that turn the wheels of politics in Nigeria.
2019 election is no difference. As at the time of writing this piece, violence, and in some cases, killings have been recorded already in campaign rallies in states like Lagos, Kogi, Bayelsa, Oyo, Imo to mention but few. At least, not less than three state chairmen of political parties have been reported kidnapped and not less than twenty supporters of political parties reportedly killed with scores of others sustaining varying degree of injuries due to bullet wounds.
For instance, Abia state All Progressives Congress (APC) chairman was kidnapped alongside his secretary few hours before arrival of President Muhammadu Buhari to the presidential rally in the state. In a similar development, the APC chairman in Adamawa state was kidnapped ahead of governorship rally in the state. Those are the few cases reported in the media. There are several others that went underground unreported.
Since the return of democracy to Nigeria in 1999, there are more than 30 cases of politically motivated assassinations across the country. Many of such cases are unresolved up till date.
Chief among them are those of “the late Bola Ige, a former Attorney General of the Federation who was shot dead in his bedroom in Bodija, Ibadan on December 23, 2001”. “Similarly, Chief Aminasaoari Dikibo, PDP Deputy National Chairman was ambushed near Asaba in daylight and was murdered in October 22, 2004”. “The gruesome cold blood murder of Dr. Harry Marshal on March 05, 2003 is another”. “In February 2003, Ogbonnaya Uche, ANPP senatorial candidate for Orlu was killed in his home residence by unknown gunmen. Killers are yet to be found till date”. “In July 2006, Lagos PDP gubernatorial aspirant, Funsho Williams was killed at his Dolphin Estate home in Ikoyi. Dipo Dina, fell to the bullets of assassins On Monday, January 25, 2010 around Covenant University, Ota. The late Dina was defunct Action Congress (AC) gubernatorial candidate in 2007. Source: Daily Post Nov 15, 2018.
Journalists were not spared, Godwin Agbroko, Chairman, ThisDay Editorial Board was assassinated on December 22, 2006. Bayo Ohu of Guardian Newspapers was shot dead on a Sunday, September 20, 2009 by a gang of 5 men and a woman in his home in Egbeda, Lagos. Bayo Ohu was working on the certificate forgery story of former Customs Controller General, Abdullahi Dikko before his murder. Source: Daily Post Nov 15, 2018.
These cases represent only a microcosm of the plethora that replete the entire landscape of the country. As a matter of fact, if asked, almost every Nigerian have one personal experience or know one politician or the other who have experienced political intimidation, harassment or near-death situations in the hands of political opponents.
One of such many instances is that of Hon Adeyinka Alex Banso, a former member of Ondo state House of Assembly representing Akoko North-West constituency 1 between 2011 – 2015 on the platform of Labour Party.
Due to irreconcilable differences and crisis rocking the Labour Party at the time, Hon. Adeyinka defected to PDP in October, 2014 and got a return ticket to run 2015 election but lost in the general election.
No sooner he won election into the state house of assembly than his travails started from the opposition politicians and exacerbated when he joined the PDP. In many of his ordeals, Adeyinka had a fatal accident in Akure while returning from a campaign in Akoko on 16th February, 2012. While narrating his ordeal, Hon. Adeyinka said, “on discovering that some men suspected to be hired thugs of opposition party followed me with full speed, I sped off and ran into some big fabricated concrete blocks being used by the company constructing road along Oba Adesida road in Akure. The bike men trailing my vehicle disappeared when they discovered that I had an accident. I was hospitalized for months before I later recovered.
As if that was not enough, Adeyinka’s house in Ajowa Akoko was invaded by suspected ACN hired thugs, …when we were preparing for the 2012 gubernatorial re-election of Dr Mimiko in November that year. They did not meet me at home but met my gateman and beat him mercilessly. This happened after so many threats to my life. I reported to the police and some arrests were made but nothing happened thereafter”, Adeyinka lamented.
He continued, “When, I got PDP ticket in 2014, there was another attempt on my life on my way to Ajowa from Akure by suspected opposition party thugs from (APC). I got wind of the information that they had laid an ambush for me on Erusu/ Ibaram road, but before I got to the spot, I hard to turn back.
“This is aside regular assaults, harassment and incessant threats to my life. I receive several phone calls almost on a daily basis from people threatening to kill or kidnap me for reasons best known to them. As a result of these threats and due to the fear of being attacked as it happened before, I could no longer sleep in my house. I am presently confined to exile away from the comfort of home and family love.
“Now that we are approaching another general election in February 2019, and moreover that my party is now in the opposition, the ruling party saw me as a thorn in their flesh which they must eliminate.”
Hon. Adeyinka’s experience is one of many faced by grassroots politicians in Nigeria. This kind of experience does not only present Nigerian democracy in bad light to the international community, it portends danger to the survival of our fledgling democracy.
Recently, politicians have been criss-crossing the nooks and crannies of the country to woo electorates to their favour in the forth coming elections.
Unfortunately, these campaign efforts have nothing to do with issues. The quality of the debate is watery. It is rather full of hate speeches, more of personality attack than issue based. This situation is generating a scenario of panic in the society.
To redeem the situation from degenerating into anarchy, partisan politics should be cast aside for now and more focus put into the problems we are facing because Nigeria is clearly a nation at war with itself. The path in which we are presently treading is a threat to the continued peace, unity and prosperity of a place we call our home.
Our leaders need to tread carefully and focus more on pressing matters facing the nation at hand irrespective of political parties, because events unfolding from Boko Haram insurgency, political violence, corruption, nepotism among others, are clear indicators of a failing state.
In order for these crises facing us as a country not to escalate into a civil war or the breakup of Nigeria, politics should not be a do or die affair. Rather, the growth and development of the country should be the main focus for our politicians.
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President Muhammadu Buhari has advised electorates in Ogun State to vote for the candidates of their choice without being violent.
President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that after his second term of another four finish in 2023, he will not break the constitutional provisions by seeking to extend it.
President Muhammad I Buhari has assured Nigerians that he does not take the support they give him for granted.
Zamfara State governor, Abdul’Aziz Yari Abubakar, has vowed that if the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) does not include the names of Zamfara APC candidates, there would be no elections in the state.
The contentious season beckons again; and expectedly, the atmosphere is sweltering more than ever before. The polity is heating up as political foes get at daggers drawn. With tempers fraying, verbal shots are flying left and right, characters are being smeared, names dragged in the mud as propaganda machineries are fine-tuned, firing from all cylinders. And for spiritual fortification, by now, nearly all herbalists and ritualists’ dens have suddenly turned Mecca of some sort.
Corruption Threatens Nigeria And Its Elections, By Muhammadu Buhari
on February 16th, Nigeria will hold a general election. Four years ago, the country experienced its first democratic transfer of power to the opposition since 1999. The vote in a few days will be no less significant.