Browsing: election 2015

“Whereas the process has gone on well in several places, in some others it has encountered some challenges, especially with the use of the card readers. “Consequently, accreditation has been slow in many places and has not commenced at all in some others

And in any case I had also written quite copiously about the 2015 elections, the role of different segments in society, as well as bemoan the choice-less choice situation we are confronted with. I had actually quite early on taken the leap by doing a prognosis as post mortem of the 2015 general elections, and followed this up with the piece on Neither PDP nor APC

The queues at filling stations are getting longer by the day in the country and it does not look like the situation will be addressed very soon. Now, nobody has offered any reasonable explanation to what has happened to our fuel. Does it mean that Nigerians do not have a reason to smile? From all indications, it looks like some people believe we should not have a taste of good life. Ehen! I also heard that electricity tariff has been/will be slashed by fifty percent. Please, let me know if it is true. Okay?

Speaking in Isan Ekiti, his country home, during a church service marking his 50th birthday, the former governor also disclosed that more revelations were on to
complement the audio tape on how Governor Ayodele Fayose; former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro; the Peoples Democratic Party candidate for the August 21 governorship election in Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore; the Minister of Police Affairs, Jelili Adesiyan; and some military officers allegedly rigged the June 21 2014 governorship poll in Ekiti State

Buhari, who lost the 2011 election on the platform of Congress for Progressive Change, however, said he was ready to step down for any other better candidate that may emerge on the platform of the new party.
He spoke in Minna, capital of Niger State, during the maiden edition of the Sam Nda-Isaiah Annual Lecture Series, saying that politics should not be seen as a do-or-die affair