After a careful reflection on the outcome of the April 2011 general elections, former Head of State and Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) issued a stern warning that the 2015 general election will be bloody except the Federal Government conducts a free and fair election. Buhari who expressed hope [...]
Considering the electoral misfortune of 2011 and the zeal to avoid the political blunder in future elections, the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, have come together with a grand plan to form an alliance that will effectively uproot the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in 2015. Among the [...]
Ahead of the 2015 general elections, governors of 19 northern states under the aegis of Northern Governors Forum, NGF, Thursday in Kaduna agreed to unite against candidates from the south in order to produce a president from their own region. Speaking at the opening session of their quarterly meeting held in Kaduna, northwest Nigeria, Chairman [...]
Preparations for the14 July, 2012 governorship election in Edo State was on Wednesday suffered a setback as participating political parties at an interactive meeting organised by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), passed a vote of no confidence on the electoral body. All representatives of the political parties who spoke at the stakeholders’ meeting with [...]
KOLE OMOTOSO African men and women who take political power and do something with it to make a difference have always interested me. I spent two weeks in Burkina Faso six months before Captain Sankara was ‘couped’ by his ‘brother’ Captain Campaore, now president of that country. The story Thomas Sankara told me stood with [...]
In a move intended to calm rising tension over the 14 July Edo State governorship polls, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has invited all parties that will take part in the election to a meeting at its national headquarters in Abuja next Friday, saying the polls will be free and fair. Those invited to [...]
Governorship candidate of the Democratic Peoples Party in the 2011 governorship election in Delta State, Chief Great Ovedje Ogboru has restated for the umpteenth time that he won the governorship elections in the state since 2003 but was robbed by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Ogboru who disclosed [...]
