Nigeria: Did Buhari Just Shoehorn South-Easterners Into APC?

17 November 2017

Enugu opened up to make President Muhammadu Buhari happy on Tuesday. The amazing excitement seen at the airport and on the corners of the streets about his visit to the Coal City must be a pleasant surprise to a man who has been reluctant to make a single passage to the South-east since he came to power.

To my mind, with this passage to the South-east, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi and his colleagues have helped Buhari to do one thing: rethink his political calculation for 2019.

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