Let me admit that the two main parties talk around the major development challenges—corruption, insecurity, economy (unemployment/poverty, power, infrastructure, etc) health, education, etc. However, it is my considered view that none of them has any credible agenda to deal with the issues, especially within the context of the evolving global economy and Nigeria’s broken public finance. The UK Conservative Party’s manifesto for the last election proudly announced that all its programmes were fully costed and were therefore implementable. Neither APC nor PDP can make a similar claim. A plan without the dollar or Naira signs to it is nothing but a wish-list. They are not telling us how much each of their promises will cost and where they will get the money. None talks about the broken or near bankrupt public finance and the strategy to fix it

He also said that if the consideration was based on the security situation in the country, ‘’There must be consultations among the relevant stakeholders before any decision should be taken so that it will not send any bad signals before the international community. You should also know that today, Nigeria is still volatile”

Ahead of the February 5, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential campaign rally in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, the state Police command has warned individuals and groups that have no lawful business in the state to stay away from the state in their interest.

Following the seeming resolution of the issues surrounding the educational qualification of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Maj-Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd), the prospect of redirecting the campaign to core issues remains a variable for the political gladiators

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday said the deployment of card readers for the February polls would eliminate rigging in the electoral process.