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By Minabere Ibelema (mibelema@bellsouth.net) For a long time now, the voice of General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) has been a constant buzz on the Nigerian political scene. Actually, for a while — after the election of 2007 — the erstwhile autocratic military head of state rescued himself from the political scene, complaining bitterly and implausibly that he had been cheated out ...

By Dele Momodu “It always seems impossible until it is done” – Nelson Mandela Fellow Nigerians, please let’s not deceive ourselves, the race for the 2015 elections has started in earnest. The gladiators are virtually ready and the bullets are already flying. In our clime, elections are fought like war. And nothing is spared because a Nigerian politician believes all ...

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Review of the Constitution, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has said if the committee’s recommendation on single tenure succeeds, President Goodluck Jonathan will sacrifice his presidential ambition in 2015. Ekweremadu, who is the Deputy Senate President, also said some governors would sacrifice their second term ambitions in 2015. He stated this in Abuja on Thursday while ...

Nigeria’s ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday took stock of the unfolding political events including the merger arrangements by opposition parties and submitted that they were positive signs and concrete indications that the party will still win the Presidency and more states by 2015. The party said in a statement that fears about the discord amongst its members, and ...

By Dele Momodu Fellow Nigerians, please allow me to set the records straight before I go into the main meat of this letter. On a personal note, I have no problem with President Goodluck Jonathan seeking a second term in office. It is his legitimate Constitutional right. It does not matter if he truly reached an unwritten gentleman’s agreement with ...