President Goodluck Jonathan is primed to pick the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2015 presidential election ─ from all indications. Most of the aspirants that could challenge him for the ticket have left the party, while Jigawa Governor Sule Lamido is not regarded as a serious challenger.Nigerians who want to see the back of Jonathan will [...]
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World's largest political risk advisory, Eurasia Group, has released its forecast for next year's presidential election in Nigeria, predicting that President Goodluck Jonathan would be re-elected.It warned that a "desperate" Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), "facing the potential loss of its power (which dates back to 1999), would exacerbate profligacy, policy politicization, oil theft, and regional/sectarian tensions".Eurasia gave PDP a 75% [...]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) is about to lose another senior member to the ruling party in what political observers are now describing as "the season of defections".Former minister of foreign affairs, Chief Tom Ikimi, has concluded plans to return to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which he left nearly 10 years ago to team up with opposition politicians.Ikimi was [...]
Speaker of the house of representatives, Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, is set to dump the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress "in a matter of weeks", TheCable understands.This, according to sources, is in preparation for the 2015 presidential election.He will defect to the APC just in time to express interest in the presidential ticket of the opposition [...]
Any attempt to write a new constitution now could give President Goodluck Jonathan a third term in office through the backdoor, the Northern Delegates Forum to the National Conference has warned.Jonathan was elected president in 2011 under the 1999 constitution (as amended) and is currently serving his first term in office.By the provisions of the constitution, he can only serve a [...]
Speaker of the house of representatives, Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has launched a quiet bid for the presidential race and is due to meet former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Tuesday evening.TheCable can report that the secret meeting is part of his mobilisation and consultation efforts for the 2015 presidential election.Although he is a member of the [...]
The outcome of the Osun governorship election did not surprise analysts, but the drama was good enough for Nigerians, meaning no one could describe it as boring. In every battle, there are bound to be winners and losers. One person's gain is another's loss. APC's Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola convincingly defeated PDP's Dr. Iyiola Omisore and we learnt a few lessons [...]
The entry of former military administrator of Lagos State, Brig-General Mohamed Marwa (rtd), into the governorship race in Adamawa State has changed the calculations, party sources have told TheCable.Following the impeachment of Vice Admiral Murtala Nyako, a new election to elect his replacement will be conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) latest by October.Marwa, who left the PDP [...]
Gen. Muhammadu Buhari has survived a bomb attack in Kaduna, but his vehicle was destroyed.On a day when multiple blasts rocked the city, Buhari's vehicle was caught in the blast - which he described as an assassination attempt - in the Kawo area of Kaduna State."He was lucky to survive. The car is gone," his media aide, Malam Yau Darazo, told [...]
Former FCT minister, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, is the odds-on favourite to fly the flag of All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2015 governorship election in Kaduna State, party insiders have told TheCable.Although primaries are still three months away, aspirants are already deploying their game plan as the political landscape takes shape.El-Rufai has not openly discussed his governorship ambition but his [...]
Hon. Awwal Tukur (pictured), son of former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, is in the race to succeed Vice Admiral Murtala Nyako as governor of Adamawa State, party sources have informed TheCable.The former member of the house or representatives, who maintains a low public profile, is going to face a formidable challenge for the [...]
Former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Malam Nuhu Ribadu, is under "intense pressure" to run for governorship in Adamawa State, TheCable understands.A fresh governorship election will be held in the state within the next three months following the impeachment of Vice Admiral Murtala Nyako on Tuesday.Nyako, who defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the [...]
Governor Umaru Almakura of Nasarawa State is facing impeachment because he failed to betray Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and defect to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), one of his associates has told TheCable.Almakura, who was in the PDP before defecting to Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in 2011, was served an impeachment notice by the PDP-dominated state house of assembly on [...]
Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is dumping the party he helped found because of the "cold shoulder" he got at the party's national convention in Abuja last month, TheCable understands.However, one of his aides, Mr. Inuwa Bwala, told TheCable on Monday that Sheriff is leaving APC because he was no longer comfortable with [...]
Governor Rauf Aregbesola is revving his electioneering as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) closes in on him ahead of the August 9 governorship poll in Osun State.Former governor of the state, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, has become a "beautiful bride" in the poll, with Aregbesola and the his party, All Progressives Congress (APC), actively courting him to defect from the PDP.Oyinlola, [...]
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl shot in October 2012 for her activities in advocating the rights of women to education, will arrive Nigeria on Sunday to meet with President Goodluck Jonathan in a bid to reignite calls for the rescue of the Chibok girls abducted by Boko Haram nearly three months ago.Before leaving Britain, where she has been living since [...]
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