December’s decisive decisions
December is a month laden with many crucial decisions
that would define the course of the country
By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor
The nation enters into the last month of the year with a number of crucial political decisions set to be taken that could well underline the future direction of the country.
Central to the political decisions to be taken in the month is the decision on the line up of candidates of the two major political parties who are expected to battle for supremacy in the coming elections that will define the future direction of the country in the immediate and perhaps long term.
The election is due next February but the candidates would have to emerge this month under the provisions of the electoral act.
Besides that, the ensuing face off between President Goodluck Jonathan and his adversaries in the National Assembly could come to a head in December when the legislators weigh the option of serving the president an impeachment notice or not.
The schedule of primaries to select candidates for the election due next February was itself laced in deep political intrigues. After initially fixing its primary schedules to commence in mid November with the key gubernatorial primaries initially fixed for November 15, All Progressives Congress, APC strategists moved it to fall behind that of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP which had fixed its own gubernatorial primaries for November 29.
caucus sometime in early November, APC rescheduled its primaries for December 4th. The decision was to allow the party lure those who fail to make it in the PDP to move over to the APC to try their luck and by that, dismember the PDP. Indeed, the APC had earlier amended its constitution to remove restriction on new members contesting in the party’s primaries at any level.
that would define the course of the country
By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor
The nation enters into the last month of the year with a number of crucial political decisions set to be taken that could well underline the future direction of the country.
Central to the political decisions to be taken in the month is the decision on the line up of candidates of the two major political parties who are expected to battle for supremacy in the coming elections that will define the future direction of the country in the immediate and perhaps long term.
The election is due next February but the candidates would have to emerge this month under the provisions of the electoral act.
Besides that, the ensuing face off between President Goodluck Jonathan and his adversaries in the National Assembly could come to a head in December when the legislators weigh the option of serving the president an impeachment notice or not.
caucus sometime in early November, APC rescheduled its primaries for December 4th. The decision was to allow the party lure those who fail to make it in the PDP to move over to the APC to try their luck and by that, dismember the PDP. Indeed, the APC had earlier amended its constitution to remove restriction on new members contesting in the party’s primaries at any level.