Nigeria: Lord of the Aspirings

20 February 2013
opinion

Unless one has been living under a meteor for the past couple of months, it is clear to every Nigerian that the political race for 2015 has well and truly begun. And if anyone wanted a lesson on how power is the ultimate corruptible aphrodisiac, they need only look at the power struggle igniting in the PDP.

As the race takes off, we have a series of claims and accusations in the PDP from the president and governors, with each repeatedly denying the other's accusations. An ambitious president, an agreement that nobody told us Nigerians about, and a cluster of equally ambitious governors on the last leg of their second terms get a few nice shout-outs but nothing is yet fully exposed.

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