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February 2, 2013

Opinion: A message for General Buhari

by Zainab Usman The General should identify potential candidates across the country and personally woo them into joining his cause. To do this successfully, he must develop a more accommodating attitude and be ready to work with different types of people. A concerned reader of this blog recently sent me an article which he requested... Read More

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February 1, 2013

Lagos State Appeals Tribunal upturns Obanikoro’s victory, declares ACN candidate winner

by Akan Ido The decision by the lower election petition tribunal declaring Babajide Obanikoro (PDP) the winner of the 2011 chairmanship election in Obalende/Ikoyi Local Council Development Authority has being upturned by the Lagos State Local Government Election Petitions Appeal Tribunal. Justice Opeyemi Oke who headed the 5-man Appeal Tribunal declared that the Independent National... Read More

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January 27, 2013

2015: Opposition merger partners consider Nasir el-Rufai and Nuhu Ribadu

by Akan Ido There are indications that Nigeria’s opposition parties are in a frantic search for a young Northerner with a pan-nigerian outlook to be fielded in the 2015 elections. Sources say this represents some sort of a back-up plan considered by the merger partners should former military president and leader of the Congress for... Read More

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January 26, 2013

Opinion: PDP, ACN and the rest – The case of six and half a dozen

by Ferdinand Adimefe The change we seek in our country ought to happen at different levels-on a personal level, in the political party, and at the polls. While the government is the door, the political party is the key to unlock the door I have been hard pressed to find an ideal political party to... Read More

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January 20, 2013

Atom Lim: The challenges of building a new mega party (Y! Politico)

by Atom Lim Yes, they want to REPLACE the PDP but in most cases, the grand plan for doing so is to beat the PDP at its game; match thug for thug, godfather for godfather, dollar for dollar, rigging for rigging, selection for selection! As the proposed merger between the nation’s three major political parties... Read More

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January 19, 2013

Tanko Yakasai: Let’s ALL support the opposition’s marriage of convenience (Y! Politico)

by Tanko Yakasai The importance of this merger cannot be over emphasized simply because PDP’s roots are deep in rigging, election manipulation, voter intimidation and many more… The only thing certain about the 2015 elections is that campaign started the day President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan was sworn into office, May 29th, 2011. Since the return... Read More

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January 17, 2013

Michael Orodare: Why Fayemi will surely lose an Ekiti re-election (Y! Politico)

by Michael Orodare Fayemi has failed the teachers, the entire state workforce, the students and even the artisans, so who else is left in the state to give him the votes he needs for his second term ambition. I am not a prophet. I didn’t write this to proclaim what God has not told me,... Read More

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January 17, 2013

2015 election: I will run again if I’m asked to – Buhari

by Isi Esene Former president Muhammadu Buhari yesterday revealed that only the outcome of the opposition merger-talks can determine if he will run for the post of president in 2015. He disclosed this in Abuja while inaugurating the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) 18-member committee billed to discuss with the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN)... Read More

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January 16, 2013

Ife Adebayo: Squandered 13 years of the PDP, Nigerians want a change now! (Y! Politico)

by Ife Adebayo As we approach 2015, I encourage all Nigerians young and old, big and small to come and work with the Action Congress of Nigeria towards creating the opposition of the future… As we all know, the path we trod to get to where we are today was a rough path. After years... Read More

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January 14, 2013

Ohimai Amaize: 2015: Don’t get it twisted (Y! Politico)

by Ohimai Godwin Amaize Those who have sentiments for opposition parties should also feel free to join but desist from allowing themselves misled into believing that once the PDP is out, Nigeria will become a paradise overnight. In 2015, Nigerians will elect new leaders. There has been so much noise about kicking out the PDP... Read More

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January 14, 2013

Bode George’s appointment: “Almost everyone in the party are ex-convicts” – Dino Melaye, others chide PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party has come under criticisms for appointing an ex-convict, Chief Bode George, into a panel to reorganise its Board of Trustees. A Lagos High Court convicted George in 2009 for fraud after he served as Chairman of the Board of the Nigerian Ports Authority. He spent two years in prison. Legal practitioners... Read More

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January 13, 2013

Atom Lim: Opposition merger talks: What’s in it for the ANPP’s Shekarau? (Y! Politico)

by Atom Lim Shekarau is not someone to come to the table expecting nothing. So what could be in it for this teacher who has managed to maintain stability in the party that Buhari abandoned? Recently, Ibrahim Shekarau has been speaking confidently on the proposed merger of political parties north and south of the Niger.... Read More

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January 11, 2013

Lai Labode: Participate, stop complaining (Y! Politico)

by Lai Labode “The future of every nation is written many years earlier in the hearts of its youth.” – Lai Labode I became the Chairman of the PDP Youth Circuit after a difficult but successful merger with the League of Young Democrats led by Chief Raymond Dokpesi jnr, a true patriot who later became... Read More

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January 9, 2013

Ife Adebayo: Opposition politics is Nigeria’s only hope (Y! Politico)

by Ife Adebayo The party has proven that it has what it takes to deliver the dividends of democracy. The party also has the widest reach of any opposition political party. The term “democracy” is derived from two Greek words – demos (or people) and kratos (rule). This is why democracy is often defined as... Read More

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January 6, 2013

It’s ON! YNaija.com presents Y! Politico – See our first seven columnists from the PDP, CPC, ACN & LP

YNaija.com, the Internet Newspaper for Young Nigerians, has launched a new opinion series called Y! Politico – which will present and document the voices and perspectives of young people in and around politics. Y! Politico joins other popular opinion columns on YNaija.com including the Y! FrontPage, Y! Arena, Y! Superbloggers, and 30 Days, 30... Read More

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December 31, 2012

Sidenote: Olusegun Mimiko: The Iroko fought a good fight

by Stanley Azuakola *Dr. Olusegun Mimiko is a YNaija Person of the Year 2012 finalist On the morning of October 22, The Vanguard Newspaper carried this brilliant headline: “A broom can’t bring down an Iroko.” If it was a Nollywood movie, the next statement would have been, “You’re speaking in parables. Who is the broom... Read More

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December 27, 2012

Slow govt.: “Nigerians are tired of his excuses…” – Opposition parties tackle Jonathan

by Akan Ido Reactions have continued to pour in over President Goodluck Jonathan’s statement which tried to justify his administration’s slow pace. On Wednesday, during a Christmas church service, Jonathan had explained that his government is perceived to be slow because it tries to properly think through issues so as to avoid making costly mistakes.... Read More

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December 25, 2012

“We may have problems…”: ACN, CPC, ANPP merger runs into trouble

by Hauwa Gambo As the three major opposition parties in Nigeria come together to fight the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), there are indications of bumps across the road – the parties reportedly disagreeing on a name, symbol and other identity issues. Reports indicate that “the three parties–the Action Congress of Nigeria, the All Nigeria Peoples... Read More

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December 23, 2012

Tunde Fagbenle: Something is happening in Ekiti – for real!

by Tunde Fagbenle I think what stands Fayemi in good stead are his frugality, integrity, intellectual base, and his vast international connections and credibility, all of which have been deployed in the race to making Ekiti a positive example in Nigeria, nay Africa. Something is happening in Ekiti State that needs to be told. And... Read More

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December 22, 2012

Photo of the Day: Here lies the grave of the ACN?

by Akan Ido We don’t know which (political) cemetery this is, but is the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) really dead and buried? If it is, will it rise again in the next elections? Flesh and blood cannot reveal that to us, only the spirit of the 2015 general elections can, until then, we wait... Read More

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December 18, 2012

How Ajimobi won governorship election in Oyo – Tokyo is out of jail and singing like a bird

by Isi Esene The ex-chairman, National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Oyo State, Lateef Akinsola, has given an insight into how the victory of the incumbent governor of the state, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, was achieved during the 2011 elections. Akinsola, popularly known as Tokyo, said Ajimobi’s victory was only possible because of the... Read More

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December 10, 2012

ANPP’s merger with ACN and CPC is in the last stages – Shekarau

by Hauwa Gambo Presidential candidate of the All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP) and chairman of its National Rebuilding and Interparty Contact Committee, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, has told journalists in Abuja, Sunday, that the merger between the three major opposition parties including the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and the Congress for Political Change (CPC) ,... Read More

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December 3, 2012

PDP won’t escape defeat in 2015 – Bisi Akande talks tough, as usual

by Akan Ido The Action Congress of Nigeria has complained about the hurdles necessary for opposition parties to overcome in forming a merger. This was disclosed by the ACN National Chairman, Bisi Akande, who described the guidelines as “cumbersome”. Akande said this in London while giving a progress report of the talks between his party... Read More

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November 24, 2012

Temie Giwa: The Nigerian political opposition’s poison (YNaija FrontPage)

The opposition’s strategy is to steal the Sout-West and the North from PDP by presenting a northern favorite through CPC and a South-Western winner through the ACN. The plan seems foolproof and might work in the end but there are a few holes in this strategy. The fight for the presidency has begun with the... Read More

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November 23, 2012

Hauwa Gambo: Now that it’s our turn to “participate” in politics (YNaija FrontPage)

Because change doesn’t happen because one set of people is replaced by the next. Change only happens because one set of philosophies is replaced by another. When democracy returned to Nigeria in 1999, a generation was just finding itself. Its evolution stunted because of the endless military occupations of Ibrahim Babangida and Sani Abacha, it... Read More

November 23, 2012

PDP floors ACN (again) in Lagos as tribunal declares Busari Akande winner of LG poll

by Isi Esene The Local Government Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Lagos yesterday declared the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Busari Akande, as the validly elected chairman of Agbado Oke-odo Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of the state. The Tribunal declared invalid the Certificate of Return earlier issued to the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) candidate,... Read More

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November 22, 2012

Our brother (Meni) battled with liver disease, will be buried on December 7 – President Jonathan’s family

by Isi Esene The remains of Chief Meni Innocent Jonathan, President Goodluck Jonathan’s younger brother, who died on Tuesday at the National Hospital, will be buried on December 7. This was disclosed by the head of the Esosi family, Nitabai Inegite, who spoke with reporters after a family meeting that ended about 6.30pm yesterday in... Read More

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November 20, 2012

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji: The lean startup (YNaija FrontPage)

Much of the rest of the country is already resigned to the revolving door of illegitimate, corrupt and inept public officials that turn up to claim their mandate every election. It’s a start, a work of art To revolutionize make a change nothing’s strange – Public Enemy (Fight the Power) Of recent, I... Read More

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November 19, 2012

‘Stop playing stone age politics’ – PDP Youth Circuit denounces Bola Tinubu over Babajide Obanikoro

by Isi Esene The Youth Circuit of the Peoples Democratic Party are threatening fire and brimstone over what it described as the “desperate antics” of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) to deny Ibrahim Babajide Obanikoro his mandate. Obanikoro was returned by the election tribunal on the 4th of October as chairman of Ikoyi-Obalende LCDA... Read More

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November 14, 2012

Japheth Omojuwa: The Nigerian opposition and the quest for Nigeria’s alternative (YNaija Frontpage)

Nothing is to say the coming together of the parties will guarantee them a win against the PDP in 2015 but that is a prerequisite for a chance of that happening. Let me state here that, this is not about the PDP or the opposition as political parties, this is about Nigeria’s democracy. By the... Read More

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