TAG
4 posts tagged with "pdp"
Temporary Voter’s Card (with Incomplete Biometric Data Capture) “Democracy is a game of numbers, and we have those numbers”, is a familiar cry to many Nigerian political observers. Those who use this cry however, show no desire to acquire those numbers, at least not legitimately. Have you heard a statement from any political party concerning […]
Been a while, today’s post is inspired by talk in my home state, Rivers State. It is common to hear “Amaechi don carry Rivers State Oil Money go give APC people” in political discourse. For clarity, he officially left the PDP to the APC in November 2013. The flaw of this argument can be found […]
The 2015 general elections are around the corner. As is now common, the media would be filled with accusations, counter-accusations, critiques, and endorsements of potential candidates or political parties by supposed “statesmen”. This is what I refer to as the herald of the statesmen. Who is a Statesman? Chamber’s 20th Century Dictionary defines a statesman […]
Political parties in Nigeria do not have ideologies. Intellectuals complain that ideologies are what define parties, citing the Conservative Republicans and Liberal Democrats in the US as examples. Would 2015 be any different? I don’t think so. Here’s why. Ideology is the sum of ideas and manner of thinking of a group, social class, or […]