The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has been reported to have employed the services of a United States lobbyist firm to battle the All Progressive Congress candidate (APC) as he challenged the outcome of the February 23 presidential poll.

Nigeria has exhausted all possibilities and can only produce misery and pain for the vast majority of the people, but there is no visionary leadership to appreciate the need to retool

The  Peoples Democratic  Party (PDP) presidential candidate in the just concluded election, Atiku Abubakar and his running mate, Peter Obi have congratulated the governor of Rivers, Nyesom Wike on his re-election.

EMINENT statesmen from the North and South of Nigeria publicly endorsed the candidature of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in this year’s presidential election. Leaders of the Pan-Niger Delta Forum, the Northern Elders Forum, the Middle Belt Forum, Afenifere and Ohanaeze Ndigbo came together under the umbrella of the Leaders and Elders Forum of Nigeria and gave their collective backing to the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party. They said Atiku “demonstrated the deep understanding of the critical needs of the country at this time and possesses the capacity to proffer clear solutions in that respect.” The former vice president, the elders concluded, was the only candidate who could “retool Nigeria on the path of development as a true federal entity”.

Professor Sam Oyovbaire, former Minister for Information, was a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP campaign council in Delta State. In this interview with Vanguard, he spoke on the 2019 general elections and the performance of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC in the state as well as on the efforts of the State Advisory and Peace Building Council, which he chairs.