Jideofor Adibe Nigeria’s presidential election scheduled for February 16, 2019, will be the country’s sixth since May 1999, when the military handed over power to a democratically elected civilian government. Though there are 73 political parties fielding candidates in the election, the race is generally believed to be between the incumbent President Muhammadu
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Déjà vu: I fear it will be unto Buhari as it was unto Jonathan in 2015
Fredrick Nwabufo There is a grand conspiracy. A plot hatched in the pits of despair and agony. There are three conspirators involved in this plot – the Nigerian people, top business executives and the international community. In this thrilling “scheme”, the Nigerian people are providing the hammer and the nail; business executives
2019: Makarfi vows to defeat Buhari, tackle security issues
Former Governor of Kaduna state, Ahmed Makarfi, has said he will defeat the incumbent president, Muhammadu Buhari if he wins PDP's 2019 presidential ticket. Makarfi, the immediate past National caretaker chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, stated this on Wednesday in Jos, at the Plateau State PDP secretariat. Makarfi, who said