Missy85:

lets stop going round in circles.

acn's most high profile aspirant is Ribadu, but i think most agree he's unlike to win a presidential election in April.

H/e, if acn can marry his popularity with the youths with the resources that a sitting president brings to the table, the outlook for acn come april will be better right?

Thats what i meant.


I hear they are also talking to the Cpc, which means acn is prob not persuaded they can win with Ribadu alone.

Gbawe:

Regardless of what the Party says in public about zoning the ACN will go with a Northern Presidential candidate and a Southern VP. Nothing will change that formula . Not even the allure of an incumbent President.

eku_bear:

What is the political rationale for this? Seems a bit too rigid thinking, no?

eku_bear:

You paint a picture in which Tinubu and the ACN are no different from the existing political establishment.

"Best northerner", "best from region X" is a bad recipe for governing a country. Nigeria will never progress if the existing political establishment is kept intact. It needs to be broken and rebuilt. But from what you say, the ACN is part of that existing bad political structure (as evidenced by you admitting that they adhere to zoning).

Or am I misunderstanding your words? If not, then I'm more than a bit disappointed. In the ACN to a large extent, but moreso in what can be achieved in Nigeria over the next decade or so.

sbeezy8:

ACN just playing POLITICS

ACN knows Ribadu cannot beat Jonathan
ACN will not have alliance with Buhari/CPC- its impossible Buhari is the FLAG bearer for CPC and its Final
ACN know Jonathan WILL in in 2011- they just want to weaken PDP for the next election.

ACN seems to be building its base around Northerners AND SS/SE-

what better way to get support for future elections than to have a northern candidate with a VP from the SS/SE on the platform of a seemingly yoruba party.

If anything the NEXT presidential candidate in the 2015 or 2019 election will be most likely a tinubu or fashola type guy. All na politics.

BUT I WANT ACN TO REMAIN A REGIONAL YORUBA YESS!!! YORUBA PARTY. grass with the people of the SW.

Nsiman:

Beaf, i like the caption. ACN knws that Atiku is their own may be they just threw him back to the pdp to cause wrangling in it and return. Whichever is the case, all political parties in nigeria are made up of the same mind, pdp <> acn<> anpp <> cpc<> etc yet we blame pdp for our woes

Hamid O:

We blame them because they've been in power for 11years and some people still live on less than a dollar per day. Do you have a problem with that??

jason123:

I agree with some of your points however, I disagree with the regional party stuff. The reason is, I want the country to have a foundation of free education and health services and I think ACN would deliver that. The reason why they cannot do that now is because people from other parts of the country would come to the various states they control and run it bankrupt. Once the country has a GOOD FOUNDATION (where politicians would not be able to use the citizens since they are literates), then, we can start talking of other things but now, I would still support a Ribadu OR buhari/ utomi or duke ticket even Chime would do but NO to a tinubu or Ngige VP. MO!

Nsiman:

@ jason 123, have in mind that if pdp falls out of power, members of pdp will decamp to the ruling party just as experienced in some states and the whole pdp movie will be either replayed or will continue playing and your dream of education will be a mirrage. The solution is not about political party but who has the will to govern, and what the electorates want if govt refuses to implement we demonstrate to the appropriate quarters not shying away and stuff like that.

sbeezy8:

ACN should control the west APGA east and ANPP north. middle bel niger delta split

Nsiman:

@ jason 123, have in mind that if pdp falls out of power, members of pdp will decamp to the ruling party just as experienced in some states and the whole pdp movie will be either replayed or will continue playing and your dream of education will be a mirrage. The solution is not about political party but who has the will to govern, and what the electorates want if govt refuses to implement we demonstrate to the appropriate quarters not shying away and stuff like that.

Gbawe: Only Alj Harem1 is close with his April fool quip. The rest of you , sorry to say , are clearly deluded and uninformed . The ACN is at the heights of its power. Everyday , the Party is gaining credibility as a serious opponent to the PDP yet some of you posit that the ACN will destroy every advantage it has worked hard to gain by re-admitting a lightweight political cast-off/p.rostitute from the PDP when the same man humiliated the Party previously with how he grovelled to return to the PDP , from the then AC Party, while insinuating that the AC Party cannot help him actualise his ambition? This article is intellectual junk written by the usual 'Olodo' mudslingers from team GEJ. Who talked about Atiku before he became consensus candidate? WHo will talk about him , let alone give him a platform, once he has lost to Jonathan

Beaf:

You mean Joe Brock of Reuters works for team GEJ? I think that is really streeeeeeeetching things.

The opposition Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) party is due to hold its primaries a day later, potentially allowing the losing PDP candidate to run for its ticket.

jay_getta:

If Atiku (or Bayelsa Cowboy) is allowed to run to run under the banner of CAN then it will confirm what is buried deepest in my heart but I refuse to (out of denial, I guess) admit, that: All Nigerian Politicians, and their, parties are mostly made up of crooks without any ideology to stand on except, of course, that of making as much money as possible via state coffers. Or how else do we explain the so called "Progressive Party" fielding someone that has been confirmed as enriching himself while Vice President and one who is currently doing so as President?

Gbawe:

My friend, partisan Nigerian newsources, controlled by Nigerian politicians, deliberately feed erroneous news to world media regularly to distort the real picture of the actual state of events . It is the oldest trick in the book when there is a propaganda war to be won. I remember in 2006 when an American news agency (wether na reuters sef) stated that Kalu was the top contender for the Presidency because he had "structures on the ground" . I had a good laugh because it was obvious deception was at work . Few days later the SUN (owned by Kalu) printed the same story word for word .

ABUJA—The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, yesterday, went into hiding to screen the four presidential aspirants that collected the nomination form to run the presidential race on its platform.

The four front runners are pioneer Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, former governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Atahiru Bafarawa, former scribe of the party, Alhaji Usman Bugaje, and Mallam Siedu Malami.

from Akoraye
[/Nobody can stop those decamping from PDP to ACN cos is their citizenship right.they can turn a new leave afterall]