ABUJA—A recent study conducted on the voting pattern of Nigerian electorate in the 2015 general elections shows that the source of the change of party in power was driven by voters and issues voters cared about Presenting the report, entitled “Nigerian Party Competition During a Time of Transition and Terror,” at a public lecture organised by Centre for Democracy and Development, CDD, weekend, Prof. Carl Levan of American University, stated that issues that bothered voters and not those negatively framed against opposite parties informed the choice of voters in the election.

THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ekiti State yesterday, challenged the former governor of the state, Dr. Kayode Fayemi to explain how he spent statutory allocations and other funds that accrued to his administration between 2010 and 2014.

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Warri South Local Government Area, Mr. Augustine Uroye has commended the leadership of the Delta South Senatorial District of the party for a successful  rally in support of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, noting that the rally is a clear indication of the governor’s second term victory.

An election monitoring and observer group, Independent Service Delivery Monitoring Group (ISDMG) has urged Nigerians to hold the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) responsible should any harm befall independent election observers deployed to monitor the forthcoming gubernatorial election in the state.

President Muhammadu Buhari’s hope of continuing in office beyond 2019 would be put to test in the months ahead following the imminent defection of former members of the PDP, which teamed up with the All Progressives Congress, APC to effect a change in government in 2015. The group popularly called the nPDP was more or less the fifth force whose defection fetched the hurriedly-assembled APC a resounding victory that left PDP in pain and anguish. Would the ruling APC remain the same without these figures?