Yet again, our dear country is passing through a difficult moment. How we react to this challenge in the following days will determine the fate of our democracy, which has been brought to great peril by this needless crisis engineered by a government that is unwilling to subject its conducts to the requirements of our constitution.

The ruling All Progressives Congress APC said the Peoples Democratic Party PDP and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar has continued to whine over the suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria CJN, Walter Onnoghen because the opposition party had planned to use the top jurist to get back to power at all costs.

The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has, in what he described as a warning to both President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, APC, said that there would be no room for rigging on February 16th especially as he said that the world is watching the developments in the country.

ENUGU-DIRECTOR General of Voice of Nigeria, DG VON, Mr. Osita Okechukwu has accused the President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo of skipping laid down rules of the apex Igbo group to endorse the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and his running mate, Mr. Peter Obi.

Human rights activist and constitutional lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, SAN, maintained that what is described as an anti-graft crusade is nothing but a move orchestrated to cut opposition figures to size

Clergymen under the umbrella of Christian Community Platform, CCP, in Delta South Senatorial District, have adopted the presidential standard bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, Delta State governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, as preferred candidates in the 2019 general election.

Angered by the recent  endorsement of Atiku/Obi presidency by Ohaneze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural body, led by a two-time Federal Minister, Chief Nnia Nwodo,   the Governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano, has allegedly described Ohaneze as an idiotic group led by an idiot and a fool. 

The visit last week to the United States of America of former Vice President and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential candidate in the 2019 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has been described as a masterstroke by his media handlers, given its timing (A handful of weeks away to the election).

Reacting yesterday, Buhari’s major rival in the forthcoming presidential election, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP described it as an act of desperation given that the president moved just as Onnoghen made plans to inaugurate the election tribunals today.

THE nation’s democratic order was on edge yesterday after President Muhammadu Buhari suspended Justice Walter Onnoghen as the Chief Justice of the country, hours before the embattled head of the judiciary was to commence his 2019 election duties.