By Akintokunbo A. Adejumo, London, UK – Feb. 9, 2011 – In previous articles, since 2007 I have always defended and given the excuse for our aberrant democratic practice as being nascent, (i.e. new, embryonic, blossoming, hopeful, promising, and budding). In fact, I try very hard to believe in my own folly, always trying seriously […]
As the 2011 presidential election gathers momentum, Senior Pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly and vice presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Pastor Tunde Bakare has said he never at any time said God told him to participate in the election. He said he was contesting the election based on a personal […]
As we approach the April timeline of the national election, the frenzy is palpable. As national elections go, this is one election in which most Nigerians repose a lot of hope: hope that the rottenness characterising past elections will be a thing of the past at least in scale if not in totality; hope for […]
A presidential aspirant during the January 13 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential primary, Mrs. Sarah Jubril, has said the “one vote” she recorded during the party’s presidential primary will continue to haunt Nigerian women. Speaking with journalists at the Federal High Court in Abuja Thursday, Jubril denied filing any case against the emergence of President […]
The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has called on all its members who lost at its national convention and primaries to concede defeat and cooperate with those that emerged victorious. It said with the conclusion of the submission of candidates names to the Independent National Electoral Commission on Monday, those who lost in […]
A gubernatorial aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Abia State, Chief Ikechi Emenike, yesterday, asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to restrain the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from recognizing Governor Theodore Orji as the flag-bearer of the party in Abia State, pending the hearing and determination of a suit challenging his […]
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has put off deliberation on the zoning of the various principal offices of the National Assembly and the executive arm of government till after the general elections. The decision, Vanguard learnt yesterday, was in order to avert a backlash to the party from zonal interests that may feel shortchanged were the […]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may have shot itself in the foot with the announcement of cancellation of its primaries in some states and subsequent order for rerun as feelers indicated that the party might not be allowed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to field candidates to contest in those constituencies. The INEC […]
The presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Monday picked the Convener of the Save Nigeria Group, Pastor Tunde Bakare, as his running mate in the April election. Buhari, through his spokesperson, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, said the choice of Bakare was based on the need, “to put the […]
Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo may have thrown in the towel as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chairman, but his ouster again brings to the fore the question about the manner PDP removes its chieftains. Stanley Nkwocha writes on the unending saga. That the PDP, between 2009 and 2011 has had three national party chairmen may be […]
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