Tag: Manifestos
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2023: Manifestos that will not manifest – By Dakuku Peterside
We are in another election season. Political parties, jobbers, and candidates deploy everything to convince innocent voters that they mean well and have a clear agenda to transform society. Most people – con artists, comics, and patriotic citizens – attempt to present what they intend to do when elected to office.
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2019: COSON rejects Buhari, Atiku’s manifestos
The Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON) has rejected the presidential manifestos made public by the presidential candidates of both the All Progressive Congress (APC), President Muhammadu Buhari and that of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Rising from a meeting of its Board held at the COSON House on Monday, COSON said that…
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We can hold politicians accountable outside their manifestoes, By Owei Lakemfa
By Owei Lakemfa. With the approach of the February 2019 elections, we are back in the season when the political class, like Father Christmas, come with packages. But while the latter comes with gifts, the packages of the politician are promissory. They are promises which in many instances are not kept after the votes have…