IBB ,Ciroma, can not stop Jonathan in 2015 – Presidency

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The Presidency on Sunday said prominent northern leaders, including Alhaji Adamu Ciroma and a former military dictator, Ibrahim Babangida, could not affect the chances of President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 general elections if he decided to contest. Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Mr. Ahmed Gulak, said this in a interview with the correspondent.

I Am Under Pressure To Contest In 2015 ––Jonathan Declares

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President Goodluck Jonathan finally broke his silence on Thursday on his rumoured second term ambition that could see him spend as much as 10 years in office as President of Nigeria. He said he is under pressure from over 1665 campaign groups who have volunteered to work for his re-election in 2015.

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Nollywood Stars plan to Campaign For President Jonathan’s Reelection In 2015

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Pro-government rallies, reminiscent of the Abacha era, are on their way back in the country. This time, they will be at the instance of Nollywood stars whose delegation met yesterday in Abuja with the National Chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) ,Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, to work out the modalities.

The project is planned to include ‘peace’ rallies and concerts in the six geo-political zones, according to leader of the delegation, Emeka Ike.

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2015 Elections May Hold In January – Prof Attahiru Jega

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If given approval by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the 2015 general elections will take place either in January or February of that year.

Chairman, INEC, Prof Attahiru Jega, dropped this hint at a two-day international workshop on “Ethics and Elections: Challenges and Institutional Responses” organised by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Foundation in Abuja.

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Jonathan can contest in 2015 - Lamido

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Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido said President Goodluck Jonathan is free to contest the 2015 Presidential election through a fair and transparent process.

He made the comment yesterday when 50 ex-1979 legislators paid him a courtesy call in Dutse.

Lamido is among the G-7 governors who are reported to be opposed to the president standing for re-election.

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Jonathan, 2015 and threats by fire-spitting militants

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At the presidential level, Goodluck Jonathan has taken the Oath of Allegiance and the Oath of Office on three occasions — first as the vice-president, as the acting president and again as the substantive president.  These pledges were taken, not as a sectional or ethnic leader, but as a national leader. But in recent times, particularly within some Ijaw enclaves, many act as if Jonathan is the President of the Ijaw ethnic group.

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Do you think Nigeria will Survive 2015?

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This question was first provoked by a United States security analysis in 2009 which said, in effect, “No!”.

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2015 Elections: No zoning in our constitution –APC

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The All Progressives Congress has said that its presidential candidates will emerge through transparent primaries.

  The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who stated this in a telephone interview with one of our correspondents, said the party would neither give preference to any zone nor fix positions for candidates from any part of the country for the 2015 general elections.

 Mohammed was reacting to a report that the APC had zoned the presidency to the North and the vice-presidency to the South-East. The report  had said that  the party  zoned the vice-presidency to the South-East to break the stronghold of the Peoples Democratic Party in the area.

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2015: Jonathan, PDP leaders in new plot to Win South-West

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President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party have begun a fresh plot to win the South-West states in the 2015 elections.

Saturday PUNCH learnt that developing an acceptable modality to check the All Progressives Congress and eventually win the zone topped the agenda of a meeting between the President and the South-West PDP leaders at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Wednesday.

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Bisi Akanda talks about Buhari, Jonathan, Amaechi and 2015

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You were quoted as saying that the All Progressives Congress is not so keen on the presidency come 2015. What then is your focus?

I will rather say I was misquoted. How would there be a major party in 2013 and such party will not be keen about 2015? We are very much keen about 2015. The only thing I said, maybe, beclouded the one I did not say. What I said was that our preoccupation as an interim leadership of the APC was to mobilise and register members, to conduct congresses and convention to establish a good structure, a durable structure for the new party and that the priority now is the Anambra election and possibly, the Delta State senatorial election which will come up anytime from now.

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Bisi Akanda talks about Buhari, Jonathan, Amaechi and 2015

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The interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, in this interview with select journalists in his Ila Orangun home, speaks on a wide range of issues. Excerpts:

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Jonathan Must Be Defeated In 2015 —Gani’s Wife

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President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is an “outright failure” and should be defeated in the 2015 election, Ganiyat Fawehinmi said in a statement on Wednesday as she assessed the country’s challenges.

“Our present Federal Government led by Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is an outright failure and we pray that by 2015, he will not return,” said Ganiyat, wife of the late Senior Advocate of Nigeria and radical lawyer, Gani Fawehinmi.

She said at no time in the history of Nigeria had the country been steamrolled by so many disasters, loss of lives and unprecedented mishaps as being witnessed now.

2015: Buhari to contest APC presidential primary

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Fomer Head of State Maj.-Gen. Buhari is likely to contest presidential primary of the All Nigeria Peoples Party.  His loyalists told SUNDAY PUNCH that despite the anti-Buhari lobby in the APC, the general would contest the primary.

SUNDAY PUNCH gathered that the anti-Buhari lobby in APC is made up of two groups. The first group consists of senior Northern politicians who want the general to bury his ambition in order for a younger northerner to contest the presidential primaries. This group is also said to be shopping for a guarantee that the general will support whoever emerges as the presidential candidate of the party.

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GEJ Got a Message For Those Who think Nigeria will break by 2015

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President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday said that Nigeria would disappoint all those who predicted that the country would break up in 2015 by continuing to remain one indivisible entity.

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Nigeria won’t break up in 2015 –Jonathan

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“For those who are predicting that this country will separate in 2015 based on the fault lines as of the time of amalgamation, they will know that this prediction will not be of any consequence. Nigeria will continue to remain one indivisible entity,” the President said.

Jonathan said this while receiving members of the Muslim community in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja who paid him Sallah homage at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, as part of the activities marking this year’s Eid-el-Fitri.

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We’ll push out PDP in 2015 – Buhari

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A veteran presidential candidate and a major stakeholder in the newly-registered All Progressives Congress, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) on Tuesday said the new party was determined to push out the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in 2015.

“The APC is focus-driven to push the PDP out of power by 2015,” Buhari told members of the Democratic Emancipation Movement who paid him a courtesy visit in Kaduna.

But the PDP said on Tuesday that Buhari, who ruled Nigeria as a military Head of State between 1983 and 1985, was day-dreaming.

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Jonathan May Divide Nigeria After 2015 Election ––Fani-Kayode ( Do You Agree With Him?)

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Former minister of aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has alleged that President Goodluck Jonathan may attempt to divide Nigeria if he failed to get second term in 2015.

  Chief Fani-Kayode also insisted that “The retention of power by the PDP in 2015 would spell doom for the country and we may never recover from it.”  The former minister who stated this while speaking to Journalists in Minna, added that the body language of the president on the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) election was a clear indication.

Deciphering 2015 Cryptic Code: Find GEJ!

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In 1588, King Philip II of Spain launched the Spanish Armada against Britain, This fleet of 130 ships  carrying more than 24,000 men, sailed up the British Channel, only to suffer defeat  by the British Navy and to fall victim contrary winds and fierce Atlantic storms. This event marked the decisive passing of Naval superiority from Spain to England.

Is PDP falling victim to contrary winds and fierce APC storms and it's lacked of internal democracy mechanism? APC should not dither to cash on these loopholes. Welcome to Wadata Plaza, PDP headquarter, an Amphitheater of Dreams for PDP chairmen. For PDP chairmen the seat remains the most unsettled and uncertain. Wadata Plaza remains a nightmare for it’s would be occupants.

2015: US not interested in who rules Nigeria

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The United States of America Ambassador to Nigeria, Terence McCulley, said yesterday that his country was not interested in influencing the outcome of Nigeria’s Presidential election scheduled for 2015.

Speaking on the Kaduna- based Liberty Radio programme’s Guest of the Week, the envoy said that the US does not have any candidate for the 2015 election, and that its only concern is a credible and transparent election better than that of 2011.


The US Ambassador was asked to react to a request by the President’s Assistant on Niger Delta Affairs, Kingsley Kuku, that the US government is in support of the President’s re-election bid in 2015.

I ‘ll contest presidential election again in 2015 — Buhari

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Minna—Former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, said he “will surely seek the mandate” of Nigerians in the 2015 presidential election under the platform of the All Progressive Congress, APC.

Buhari who lost the 2011election on the platform of Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, however said he was ready to step down for any other better candidate that may emerge under the new party.

He spoke in Minna, capital of Niger State during the maiden edition of Sam Nda-Isaiah Annual Lecture Series, saying that politics should not be seen as a do-or-die affair.