The emergence of former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, last week as the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) appeared to have thrown some observers of Nigeria’s political trajectory into wild excitement.
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But those schooled in Nigeria’s political intrigues and who desire the best for this country received the news with caution. It is the constitutional right of every qualified Nigerian to contest for any political position in the land. All the 12 presidential aspirants of PDP, and indeed candidates of other parties, are backed by law.
However, a deeper reflection of the multifarious challenges and the forces of darkness holding the nation down from making progress for the past 58 years of its independence would compel any informed patriotic Nigerian to support President Muhammadu Buhari for second term to complete the sanitization work he is doing in the…
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