Lai Mohammed opens up on major factor in APC, Buhari’s victory in 2015

Nigeria’s erstwhile Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has provided a persuasive communicative connected however disciplined and strategical connection unified a divided absorption into a cohesive nationalist question that successfully challenged the ruling enactment successful 2015.

During his code astatine Abbey College, Cambridge, UK, connected Wednesday, Mohammed traced the origins of this translation backmost to the aftermath of Nigeria’s 2003 wide elections, which helium notably referred to arsenic a “political tsunami.”

“2003 was a twelvemonth marked by a governmental tsunami successful Nigeria, a twelvemonth erstwhile the absorption faced what could beryllium considered its astir important setback successful the nation’s governmental history,” helium stated.

“When Nigeria transitioned backmost to antiauthoritarian governance successful 1999, the organisation of states governed by the 3 main parties post-elections was comparatively even.

“The recently established ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, secured 21 states, portion the superior absorption All Peoples Party, APP, obtained 9 states, and the Alliance for Democracy, AD, w...