TOBI AWORINDE writes on the political groups within the All Progressives Congress bloc that will determine the success or otherwise of President Muhammadu Buhari’s second-term bid next year
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With President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent declaration to seek re-election in 2019, presumably, the ruling All Progressives Congress is mapping out various strategies to ensure the success of his campaign.
Particularly crucial to the President’s ambition will be key allies whose former political parties — the Action Congress of Nigeria, the Congress for Progressive Change, the All Nigeria Peoples Party and a faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance — merged in 2013 to form the APC. The merger paved the way for an unprecedented presidential election victory by an opposition party.
But going into the 2019 elections, the stakes…
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