Both are major political strongholds for the two leading political parties, Buhari’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP). ..…

FROM Lagos to Sokoto, Rivers to Borno, and Taraba to Kwara, the 36 state governors have huge tasks on their hands as Nigeria marks 20 years of unbroken democratic rule..  . ... President Muhammadu Buhari with APC Governors Katsina State on Friday Currently, 93 Nigerians and UNFPA,..…

Wole Soyinka claimed sometime ago that President Muhammadu Buhari, a devout Muslim and tireless champion of sharia, had become a “converted democrat.” ... According to available records, seventy-three candidates from the same number of parties vied for the position of President, despite..…

Buhari’s main opponent was Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), who got 41% of the vote (11 million) compared to the victor’s share of 56% (15 million). ..…

President Muhammadu Buhari's beaten rival, Atiku Abubakar, of People's Democratic Party, called the vote a sham and is challenging the in court.. ..…

Buhari secured 56% of votes, compared with 41% for Atiku, a candidate for the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). . Buhari faces a daunting to-do list, including reviving an economy still struggling to recover from a 2016 recession and quelling a decade-old Islamist insurgency that..…

Yakubu added that a certificate of return will be issued to Buhari and his deputy at 2 pm local time. . Buhari ran against the main opposition People's Democratic Party’s candidate Atiku Abubakar, a former vice president and multibillionaire businessman.  . ..…

WITH the presidential election holding today,  the political pulse is vivacious in the South-South states, as the political parties battle to outfox themselves in the region that is, conventionally, a stronghold of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. . It is not likely that the All Progressives..…

Regardless of who wins, President Muhammadu Buhari of All Progressives Congress and his opposition, Atiku Abubakar of People's Democratic Party, have opened the door to political forces they cannot control or stop.. ..…

Buhari rode a wave of anti-corruption sentiment, coupled with promises to revive the stuttering economy and defeat the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency. . ... Atiku, like Buhari, is also a northern Muslim, born in Adamawa state. ..…

there are 73 political parties fielding candidates in the election, to be between President Muhammadu Buhari of All Progressives Congress and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, president of the country from 1999 to 2007, of People's Democratic Party's .. ..…

When the Abacha dictatorship in Nigeria (1993-98) was facing collapse, the Nigerian elite, backed and advised by imperialism, prepared the ground for a transition to a bourgeois democratic regime. The various presidents, from Obasanjo to Buhari today, have run corrupt regimes, doing nothing..…

Candidates: Muhammadu Buhari (All Progressives Congress), Atiku Abubakar (People's Democratic Party), Oby Ezekwesili (Allied Congress Party). . ..…

Incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) faces a stiff challenge from Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), which dominated national politics from 1999 to 2015. ... But two contestants will dominate the presidential election: the All..…

In Nigeria the election of Buhari in 2015 was the first democratic transfer of power from one party to another in Nigeria’s history. ..…

The poll is to be yet another two-horse race contest between All Progressives Congress and People's Democratic Party. Buhari claims to have curtailed corruption, particularly since the introduction of the account that has reduced leakages in the country's finances. ..…

TEHRAN Come December 12, people of conscience around the globe would be joining members of Islamic Movement Nigeria to commemorate the anniversary of the premeditated attack on armless citizens using armed-to-the-teeth security operatives while bracing up to hoist flag on the dome of Hussainiyya Baqiyatullah,..…

President Muhammadu Buhari and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, weekend, picked the presidential tickets of All Progressives Congress, APC, and Peoples Democratic Party,  Read more ».. The polity was astir, yesterday, over the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari and..…

'Our baseline forecast is that the president, Muhammadu Buhari, will lose power, and that the next government will be led by Atiku Abubakar of the People's Democratic Party (PDP, the main opposition party), but instability will remain an insoluble challenge.' . ..…

The candidate of Peoples Democratic Party for the 2019 general elections, Atiku Abubakar, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure that N30,000 new  Read more ».. ..…

On the whole idea of free and fair elections, electoral integrity as it were, rests the political stability of our country and the legitimacy of democratic governments. Besides, President Buhari is a beneficiary of the framework of electoral integrity instituted by his predecessor in..…

The worst of government actions based on Buhari's kind of security and interest was the utterly disgusting and invasion of the national assembly, institution that symbolizes in nations worldwide, Services, DSS, on Tuesday, August 7, 2018. ... While Nigerians and their democratic..…

Sokoto state governor and aspirant of Peoples Democratic Party, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately operationalize North-East Development Commission to... ..…

Tinubu has forcefully emerged the leading chorister in the choir of ignorance that is singing Buhari’s praises, using his phantom good governance as rhyme and Peoples Democratic Party’s sixteen years misrule as rhythm. ..…

A major election monitoring group has dismissed yesterday’s re-run election in Osun State as fraudulent and anti-democratic, calling for an immediate investigation into the... . . . . . Buhari Has Admitted He Cannot Protect Nigeria -NEF, Afenifere, Others …Insist On New Leadership... . ..…