Nigeria: How PDP Crisis Brightens Al-Makura's Chances

18 December 2013

Lafia — The clock ticks on towards 2015 governorship election; and Nasarawa State is back again, on the same path that led to the election of Umaru Tanko Al-Makura as governor of the state on 25 April 2011.

An elder of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and one of the founding fathers of the party in the state, Ambassador Suleiman Azores, did not look back to his party's interest to recapture governorship power in 2015; he stood openly, and with the aid of loud speakers, declared support for Al-Makura to run for re-election.

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