Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s party may be wracked by defections and his battles against corruption and an Islamist rebellion under fire, but he has one crucial advantage in securing re-election: incumbency.

The 75-year-old leader is going to need all the tools available to repeat his 2015 victory — the first time an opposition party won power at the ballot box in Africa’s biggest oil producer. At his disposal, analysts say, is a record with some policy successes, as well as the state power to reward or punish.

Buhari “seems prepared to deploy the institutions of state to his advantage,” said Clement Nwankwo, executive director of the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre in the capital, Abuja. “It’s kind of a plan to beat people into line.”

Buhari — who was briefly Nigeria’s military ruler in the 1980s — will be fighting against perceptions the country hasn’t gotten any safer nor less corrupt during his tenure. A promise to shatter Boko Haram’s northern Islamist insurgency may have been partly fulfilled, but inter-communal violence has replaced it as Nigeria’s deadliest threat. Nigeria’s corruption perception ranking soared this year despite a much-touted war on graft.

Buhari is benefiting from a recovering economy with rising crude prices after a 2016 recession triggered by the sharp fall in the price of the commodity that is the country’s main export. Foreign-exchange reforms by the government have helped to stabilize the naira. Inflation decelerated for the 18th straight month in July as food prices climbed at the slowest rate since March 2016.

Improved Economy

“Oil output has been fairly steady and prices are better than anticipated,” said Antony Goldman, West Africa analyst at London-based PM Consulting. “Economic fundamentals are better than when Buhari was elected.”

When the head of the Senate, Bukola Saraki — Nigeria’s third-most powerful politician — joined more than 50 APC members in leaving for the opposition People’s Democratic Party over the past month, the reaction was swift. First his home was blockaded; days later security officers barred entry to the legislature itself. It’s an exodus that Buhari needs stemmed if he’s to keep afloat a party with a campaign machine spanning Africa’s most populous nation of almost 200 million people.

The PDP said the move was an attempt to smuggle in Buhari loyalists and remove Saraki, who’d adjourned sittings until late September. Amid public outrage, the government and APC condemned the deployment as unconstitutional and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who’s acting head of state while Buhari’s overseas, dismissed the state security chief.

‘Damage Control’

“It was a crucial act of damage control by the acting president,” said Nwankwo.

Saraki said he’s considering challenging for Buhari’s job in the coming vote on the platform of the PDP, as the country needs a business-friendly leadership that is currently lacking.

Buhari’s war on corruption gives him a way to coerce his opponents, according to Cheta Nwanze, an analyst at Lagos-based business advisory, SBM Intelligence.

Buhari signed an executive order in July empowering him to freeze the bank accounts of those implicated in graft investigations. The opposition says that it will be used to punish defectors, undermines Nigeria’s courts and violates the principle of presumption of innocence.

Critics point to the case of Benue state Governor Samuel Ortom. Shortly after he left the ruling party for the PDP, the Buhari-controlled financial crimes agency moved in to freeze Benue state’s bank accounts, citing a corruption investigation. Ortom’s office has asked why the probe only happened once the governor had left the APC.

‘Concrete Achievements’

Buhari has other elements in his favor. Amaka Anku, an Africa analyst at Washington D.C.-based risk advisers Eurasia Group, pointed to national railway lines and a metro system in the capital completed during his first term.

“Buhari will have concrete achievements to point to on the campaign trail,” she said.

The president may also get a boost from the opposition’s disunity. Still to name a presidential candidate, the PDP has at least a dozen would-be contenders.

While former President Olusegun Obasanjo — a powerful voice — is campaigning against Buhari’s re-election, he’s also, due to long-standing differences, opposed to the candidacy of his former deputy, Atiku Abubakar. A northerner, like Buhari, who may be able to win support on the incumbent’s home turf, Abubakar is widely seen as the only challenger proposing coherent policies.

“Compared to 2015, the president has lost some support, but the challenge for the opposition will be to win that support,” Goldman said. “The PDP is still in search of a personality to unite the party.”

http://pmexpressng.com/buhari-looks-good-win-2019-election-says-bloomberg/

I don't think any reasonable Nigerian wanna die by Fulani bullet occupying their land.
The killers have suddenly gone underground sharply waiting for 2019 result.

Democratically, developmentally, economically and security wise, I don't think Nigerians want to fail again.

Those still defending this government have an agenda not Nigeria.

U mean winning by rigging and buying votes.........right?

Beacause no sane Nigerian.......living in Nigeria.........will vote him.

As a matter of fact, Buhari did not have opposition but enemies
SAI BABA till 2023

Sai maigaskiya till 2023

Baawaa:
As a matter of fact, Buhari did not have opposition but enemies
SAI BABA till 2023

You made a good point. They're enemies of progress!

Baawaa:
As a matter of fact, Buhari did not have opposition but enemies
SAI BABA till 2023

gbam

How is it possible that buhari is the president of almost 100 million educated youths....







How did he do it, how?
How is he still the president of almost 100 million youths, how?
How's is it possible that Bloomberg thinks he might still get elected next year, how? How the hell is it possible.




Pls that slowpoke should remove that "thing" on top of my post.

Earlier today on another thread, a deluded nairalander made the comment quoted below..and few hours later, we are hearing a different song from Bloomberg

dhardy09:
There is no harm in self deception or consolation!! Guess you not yet aware your lord and saviour "sai Barberism" is withdrawing from the race? You are not aware that the BrentonWood Club who loaned Buhari Trillions have asked him to step down? They have seen how he crumbled a thriving economy and cannot tolerate him any further. They are the ones pushing Saraki to run.
You think Bloomberg did not see other presidential candidates before going to interview Saraki? Keep dreaming that sai barber is coming back to keep paying you N30k.

See your life?

Compared to 2015, the president has lost some support, but the challenge for the opposition will be to win that support,” Goldman said.

Nigerians are angry but not crazy enough to hand over the nation back to the band of bandits ...Yam eating goats dem.

“The PDP is still in search of a personality to unite the party.”

They shall search till their camp finally scatter..

nNEOo:
How is it possible that buhari is the president of almost 100 million educated youths....







How did he do it, how?
How is he still the president of almost 100 million youths, how?

It's called unmerited Favor per "religious" folks.

modath:


It's called unmerited Favor.

Religious trash, what is rational about " UNMERITED FAVOUR "



Don't start thinking for yourself.

yns4real:
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s party may be wracked by defections and his battles against corruption and an Islamist rebellion under fire, but he has one crucial advantage in securing re-election: incumbency.

The 75-year-old leader is going to need all the tools available to repeat his 2015 victory — the first time an opposition party won power at the ballot box in Africa’s biggest oil producer. At his disposal, analysts say, is a record with some policy successes, as well as the state power to reward or punish.

Buhari “seems prepared to deploy the institutions of state to his advantage,” said Clement Nwankwo, executive director of the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre in the capital, Abuja. “It’s kind of a plan to beat people into line.”

Buhari — who was briefly Nigeria’s military ruler in the 1980s — will be fighting against perceptions the country hasn’t gotten any safer nor less corrupt during his tenure. A promise to shatter Boko Haram’s northern Islamist insurgency may have been partly fulfilled, but inter-communal violence has replaced it as Nigeria’s deadliest threat. Nigeria’s corruption perception ranking soared this year despite a much-touted war on graft.

Buhari is benefiting from a recovering economy with rising crude prices after a 2016 recession triggered by the sharp fall in the price of the commodity that is the country’s main export. Foreign-exchange reforms by the government have helped to stabilize the naira. Inflation decelerated for the 18th straight month in July as food prices climbed at the slowest rate since March 2016.

Improved Economy

“Oil output has been fairly steady and prices are better than anticipated,” said Antony Goldman, West Africa analyst at London-based PM Consulting. “Economic fundamentals are better than when Buhari was elected.”

When the head of the Senate, Bukola Saraki — Nigeria’s third-most powerful politician — joined more than 50 APC members in leaving for the opposition People’s Democratic Party over the past month, the reaction was swift. First his home was blockaded; days later security officers barred entry to the legislature itself. It’s an exodus that Buhari needs stemmed if he’s to keep afloat a party with a campaign machine spanning Africa’s most populous nation of almost 200 million people.

The PDP said the move was an attempt to smuggle in Buhari loyalists and remove Saraki, who’d adjourned sittings until late September. Amid public outrage, the government and APC condemned the deployment as unconstitutional and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who’s acting head of state while Buhari’s overseas, dismissed the state security chief.

‘Damage Control’

“It was a crucial act of damage control by the acting president,” said Nwankwo.

Saraki said he’s considering challenging for Buhari’s job in the coming vote on the platform of the PDP, as the country needs a business-friendly leadership that is currently lacking.

Buhari’s war on corruption gives him a way to coerce his opponents, according to Cheta Nwanze, an analyst at Lagos-based business advisory, SBM Intelligence.

Buhari signed an executive order in July empowering him to freeze the bank accounts of those implicated in graft investigations. The opposition says that it will be used to punish defectors, undermines Nigeria’s courts and violates the principle of presumption of innocence.

Critics point to the case of Benue state Governor Samuel Ortom. Shortly after he left the ruling party for the PDP, the Buhari-controlled financial crimes agency moved in to freeze Benue state’s bank accounts, citing a corruption investigation. Ortom’s office has asked why the probe only happened once the governor had left the APC.

‘Concrete Achievements’

Buhari has other elements in his favor. Amaka Anku, an Africa analyst at Washington D.C.-based risk advisers Eurasia Group, pointed to national railway lines and a metro system in the capital completed during his first term.

“Buhari will have concrete achievements to point to on the campaign trail,” she said.

The president may also get a boost from the opposition’s disunity. Still to name a presidential candidate, the PDP has at least a dozen would-be contenders.

While former President Olusegun Obasanjo — a powerful voice — is campaigning against Buhari’s re-election, he’s also, due to long-standing differences, opposed to the candidacy of his former deputy, Atiku Abubakar. A northerner, like Buhari, who may be able to win support on the incumbent’s home turf, Abubakar is widely seen as the only challenger proposing coherent policies.

“Compared to 2015, the president has lost some support, but the challenge for the opposition will be to win that support,” Goldman said. “The PDP is still in search of a personality to unite the party.”

http://pmexpressng.com/buhari-looks-good-win-2019-election-says-bloomberg/

Fake news site

WHERE IS THE Bloomberg link?

Pierced:
U mean winning by rigging and buying votes.........right?

Beacause no sane Nigerian.......living in Nigeria.........will vote him.

call it anything Buhari till 2023

midolian:
Earlier today on another thread, a deluded nairalandler made the comment quoted below..and few hours later, we are hearing a different song from Bloomberg




See your life?

I can only imagine how his post rattled you.

That jobless aggressive lazy idiotic pigs of Biafra terrorist call nwankwo and nweze are the pigs telling UN and transparency international lies.
Those pigs said damage control.
Those pigs are members of corrupt PDP.
Those pigs failed to tell us how thief saraki brought thugs to national assembly as early as 6am.

That is why I always maintain that UN and TI reports are not reliable and accurate.

Death sentence on PDP members and supporters!

The same Bloomberg they hailed as tipping Saraki for the winner simply because they interviewed him. They said Bloomberg knows Saraki has already won and that's why they decided to interview him OF ALL THE CONTESTANTS.

NOW THIS!

Waiting for them to hate or the same Bloomberg they hailed just yesterday because of Saraki.

It will be a big shame honestly!

Buhari Sak!

midolian:
Earlier today on another thread, a deluded nairalandler made the comment quoted below..and few hours later, we are hearing a different song from Bloomberg




See your life?

Your head dey there!!!

This informed my comment as well.

Watch how the same people make a volte face over the same source!

Only an incorrigible ignoramus thinks any PDP aspirant can match Buhari. Forget all that herdsmen propaganda.

Lalasticlala. Please what brand of champagne do you like.. Two bottles on me.

Mynd44 can turn up if he likes, provided he's in Abuja.

NgeneUkwenu, Butterflyleo, Sarrki, are you guys reading this?

There are two factors that can work in favour of Buhari:

1. The opponents are Not really better than him
2. The opponents are Not really united.

GavelSlam:
Some people would suffer insomnia with this news.

I see tears everywhere already!

Everywhere they turn, rejection awaits them.

They went to town to cook up some frivolous propaganda about some ghost foreign governments pressurising baba not to run and suggesting Babagana Kingibe thinking anyone will buy that crap.

This news is the written text equivalent of doing someone "waka".

Dominique I sight you. Do the needful Sir. We promise to be gentle on the PDP supporters tonight.

I have been saying this for months now for all the world to hear, there will be NO BUHARI CANDIDACY come 2019.

yns4real:
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s party may be wracked by defections and his battles against corruption and an Islamist rebellion under fire, but he has one crucial advantage in securing re-election: incumbency.

The 75-year-old leader is going to need all the tools available to repeat his 2015 victory — the first time an opposition party won power at the ballot box in Africa’s biggest oil producer. At his disposal, analysts say, is a record with some policy successes, as well as the state power to reward or punish.

Buhari “seems prepared to deploy the institutions of state to his advantage,” said Clement Nwankwo, executive director of the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre in the capital, Abuja. “It’s kind of a plan to beat people into line.”

Buhari — who was briefly Nigeria’s military ruler in the 1980s — will be fighting against perceptions the country hasn’t gotten any safer nor less corrupt during his tenure. A promise to shatter Boko Haram’s northern Islamist insurgency may have been partly fulfilled, but inter-communal violence has replaced it as Nigeria’s deadliest threat. Nigeria’s corruption perception ranking soared this year despite a much-touted war on graft.

Buhari is benefiting from a recovering economy with rising crude prices after a 2016 recession triggered by the sharp fall in the price of the commodity that is the country’s main export. Foreign-exchange reforms by the government have helped to stabilize the naira. Inflation decelerated for the 18th straight month in July as food prices climbed at the slowest rate since March 2016.

Improved Economy

“Oil output has been fairly steady and prices are better than anticipated,” said Antony Goldman, West Africa analyst at London-based PM Consulting. “Economic fundamentals are better than when Buhari was elected.”

When the head of the Senate, Bukola Saraki — Nigeria’s third-most powerful politician — joined more than 50 APC members in leaving for the opposition People’s Democratic Party over the past month, the reaction was swift. First his home was blockaded; days later security officers barred entry to the legislature itself. It’s an exodus that Buhari needs stemmed if he’s to keep afloat a party with a campaign machine spanning Africa’s most populous nation of almost 200 million people.

The PDP said the move was an attempt to smuggle in Buhari loyalists and remove Saraki, who’d adjourned sittings until late September. Amid public outrage, the government and APC condemned the deployment as unconstitutional and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who’s acting head of state while Buhari’s overseas, dismissed the state security chief.

‘Damage Control’

“It was a crucial act of damage control by the acting president,” said Nwankwo.

Saraki said he’s considering challenging for Buhari’s job in the coming vote on the platform of the PDP, as the country needs a business-friendly leadership that is currently lacking.

Buhari’s war on corruption gives him a way to coerce his opponents, according to Cheta Nwanze, an analyst at Lagos-based business advisory, SBM Intelligence.

Buhari signed an executive order in July empowering him to freeze the bank accounts of those implicated in graft investigations. The opposition says that it will be used to punish defectors, undermines Nigeria’s courts and violates the principle of presumption of innocence.

Critics point to the case of Benue state Governor Samuel Ortom. Shortly after he left the ruling party for the PDP, the Buhari-controlled financial crimes agency moved in to freeze Benue state’s bank accounts, citing a corruption investigation. Ortom’s office has asked why the probe only happened once the governor had left the APC.

‘Concrete Achievements’

Buhari has other elements in his favor. Amaka Anku, an Africa analyst at Washington D.C.-based risk advisers Eurasia Group, pointed to national railway lines and a metro system in the capital completed during his first term.

“Buhari will have concrete achievements to point to on the campaign trail,” she said.

The president may also get a boost from the opposition’s disunity. Still to name a presidential candidate, the PDP has at least a dozen would-be contenders.

While former President Olusegun Obasanjo — a powerful voice — is campaigning against Buhari’s re-election, he’s also, due to long-standing differences, opposed to the candidacy of his former deputy, Atiku Abubakar. A northerner, like Buhari, who may be able to win support on the incumbent’s home turf, Abubakar is widely seen as the only challenger proposing coherent policies.

“Compared to 2015, the president has lost some support, but the challenge for the opposition will be to win that support,” Goldman said. “The PDP is still in search of a personality to unite the party.”

http://pmexpressng.com/buhari-looks-good-win-2019-election-says-bloomberg/

No be say he looks good alone, he is the Man thatGod send.

BUHARI till Nigeria is one of the best country in the world

Buhari is better than all pdp aspirants put together.

The leadership is the biggest Nigerian problem with rife corruption and lack of basic humanity.
The Nigerian people are suffering from a lack of leadership and too much religious dogma.
One of the main problems with Nigerians is that they are too tolerant of their politicians. No strikes or protest marches for justice. They have come to terms with the fact that they have to bribe a government official, customs officer, police officer, immigration officer just to progress in life.