Audu’s second coming as governor was less than auspicious. His tenure was largely overshadowed by tales of rampant corruption and graft
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To Okupe, the defeat of the Peoples Democratic Party in the election would never have happened had Prof. Attahiru Jega, erstwhile Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, not supervised the polls. Nigeria’s immense gain in that regard, according to Okupe, was the PDP’s loss
More than one Nigerian merits the title of “false patriot”. But the individual who deserves the honorific more than any other at this time must be James Onanefe Ibori, erstwhile governor of Delta State
This was Wike’s reaction to the recent judgment of the Rivers State election tribunal, which ordered a re-run of the controversial governorship election that held in the state last April. Wike’s political platform, the Peoples Democratic Party, also weighed in with its own barbs, accusing the Muhammadu Buhari administration of hatching a grand plan to steal political offices from the PDP through the instrumentality of the judiciary
It’s been a torrent of bad news for the PDP since then. Information has emerged that public officials who served under Jonathan willfully helped themselves to the public exchequer, to the tune of billions of dollars
The sense of urgency precipitated by Boko Haram’s murderous activities, not only in Nigeria but in neighbouring countries, certainly explains the visit former president Olusegun Obasanjo recently paid to the incumbent, Muhammadu Buhari, at the head of a team of Colombian security experts. The visit was said to be under the auspices of the Copenhagen Foundation, a think-tank Obasanjo leads