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News reaching ViewPointNigeria suggests that the Governorship candidates of the Labour Party, Amb. Bagudu Hirse and that of the the Mega Progressive Peoples Party, Mrs. Elizabeth Yirse, have shelved their gubernatorial ambitions and have thrown their weight behind Barrister Simon Lalong. The two candidates made their declarations at a joint Press Conference held in Jos […]

Our attention has been drawn to a press Conference by the APC in Plateau State, in which the Party made some spurious allegations concerning the forthcoming governorship elections in the State. These allegations, which is part of a grand strategy by the APC as evidenced in another Press Conference by the Redemption Integrity Group and […]

The third term saga in Nigeria became notorious in the twilight days of Obasanjo’s presidency in 2007. His method was very ingenious. Its problem – third term as a concept was not constitutional. So Nigerians resisted it; fought it and killed it. However, Baba Jang has devised an ingenious solution to the third term debacle. […]

History they say, is repetitive. If one does not learn from the mistakes of the past, then he/she is bound to repeat same in the future. In Dariye’s first few years in office he was celebrated as a young dynamic leader. By the end of 2001, when subvention dropped and […]

I have watched how a cataclysm of sentimentalism has successfully reduced the PDP’s greatness as a National Political Party to nothing in the Presidential and National Assembly Elections of 28th March 2015. Even though I feel a great sense of loss, I think it was an appropriate “coming of age” ritual that the party had […]

An Urhobo militant group, Urhobo Gbagbako, on Friday claimed responsibility for Thursday night’s bombing of the NPDC Oil pipelines at Ighrenene, Afiesere and Ekiugbo communities in Delta State. The group, which made the claims in an email sent to some reporters, said it is also planning to shut down all the oil fields in Urhobo […]

Prominent leaders of the All Progressives Congress have expressed their preference for the former governor of Kwara State, Dr Bukola Saraki as the next Senate President. Though, a former governor of Benue state, George Akume was said to have been penciled down for the exalted position, key leaders of APC, it was learnt are […]

Now that General Muhammadu Buhari is our President-elect, Plateau people must vote and install an APC governor as a matter of political expediency. Had President Goodluck Jonathan won the presidential election, voting the APC would have been a matter of choice.The peoples protest against Gov Jang’s imposition to actualize his Du Agenda may have informed […]