The greatest challenge facing the democratic process in Nigeria, as in most developing nations, has to do with the management of the post-election transition process. The political tension and acrimony between parties and politicians peaks at the polls and tends to escalate during collation and announcement of results, giving electioneering a “do-or-die” tendency. This situation impacts negatively on the democratic process as election-related violence often takes a heavy toll on lives and property, disrupts elections and ultimately threatens national stability.

GOVERNOR Mohammed Bello of Niger State, yesterday, said those pushing the former vice president and presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in February 23 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to challenge the outcome of the election in court could be doing so to get money from him.

Buba Galadima, the   spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential candidate, Atiku  Abubakar Campaign Organisation,has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) sponsored and paid some highly placed Nigerians to beg  Atiku  Abubakar not to go to court this came as he also said that the APC used the military to rig the 2019 presidential election.

Former governor of Ogun State, Gbenga Daniel has said that he will never abandon the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

The problem of some of our elites who quite often cry more than the bereaved is that they always put forward the only side of a story that butters their bread