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From: Okey Iheduru<okeyiheduru@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Amaechi, 4 other PDP govs, nPDP join APC
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com

Bolaji:

You deserve a medal for your unabashed partisan agitation for the causes that benefit ACN/APC. However, your recent post makes me wonder whether it's not a bit premature to talk of "realignment," an obvious plastic attempt to graft a moving Nigerian target on to a much more settled American political firmament. It does appear that you're too quick to personalize political developments, without asking how much political following and usable and efficacious structures these your favorite governors actually command as individuals on the ground. I plead ignorance about how to use the courts and how to crack a few skulls (cf. your beloved Ekiti State at the moment, even if it's not yet a Kiriji war) to manufacture reality. I'm also uncomfortable with your stretched assertion that the Nigerian Constitution has been tested more than the US constitution, as gratuitous as that may be. Finally, I wonder how comfortable FU Otuoke students feel (the reality may be different), knowing that their VC who is maintained at public expense is a rabid partisan agitator for a political party some of them may disagree with. Not even sure you know who pays your bills!

There you have it--apologies Prof.

Okey Iheduru

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Mobolaji Aluko <alukome@gmail.com> wrote:

My People:

This re-alignment is an interesting case of the uncertain - and ever-entertaining - political arithmetic in our country.  An American political scientist (and keen Nigerian watcher) once remarked that the Nigerian Constitution has been tested in just one decade in many ways that the American Constitution has been tested in as long as one century.

The story continues...2014 will be interesting, and 2015 even more so.

And there you have it. 

Bolaji Aluko

APPENDIX:

 

Some Notes : Source - Modified from Wikipedia

The current party affiliations of the 36 state governors are:

·         16 People's Democratic Party (PDP) [18,  if we don't exclude Niger's Aliyu and Jigawa's Lamido]

·         18 Action Congress (ACN) [16,  if we include Niger's Aliyu and Jigawa's Lamido]

·         1 All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA)

·         1 Labour Party

·          

State	Current Governor	Party	Elected/Took office	Some details
Abia State	Theodore Orji	PDP	26 April 2011	Reelected
Adamawa State	Murtala Nyako	PDP ->ACN	29 April 2008	Elected after April 2007 election was nullified
Akwa Ibom State	Godswill Akpabio	PDP	26 April 2011	Reelected
Anambra State	Peter Obi	APGA	6 February 2010	Second term
Bauchi State	Isa Yuguda	PDP	28 April 2011	Reelected
Bayelsa State	Seriake Dickson	PDP	2011 24 May 2008	Reelected after nullification of April 2007 election
Benue State	Gabriel Suswam	PDP	26 April 2011	Reelected
Borno State	Kashim Shettima	ANPP->ACN	26 April 2011	First term
Cross River State	Liyel Imoke	PDP	2011 23 August 2008	Reelected after nullification of April 2007 election
Delta State	Emmanuel Ewetan Uduaghan	PDP	26 April 2011	Reelected
Ebonyi State	Martin Elechi	PDP	26 April 2011	Reelected
Edo State	Adams Oshiomhole	ACN	12 November 2008	Assumed office after winning appeal of April 2007 election
Ekiti State	Kayode Fayemi	ACN	15 October 2010	Assumed office after winning appeal of April 2007 election
Enugu State	Sullivan Chime	PDP	26 April 2011	Reelected
Gombe State	Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo	PDP	26 April 2011	First term
Imo State	Owelle Rochas Okorocha	APGA ->ACN	6 May 2011	First term
Jigawa State	Sule Lamido	PDP->ACN???	26 April 2011	Reelected
Kaduna State	Mukhtar Ramalan Yero	PDP	26 April 2011	Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa appointed governor on 20 May 2010 when Namadi Sambo became Vice President; when he died, he was replaced by incumbent Yero
Kano State	Mohammed Rabiu Kwankwaso	PDP ->ACN	26 April 2011	Reelected
Katsina State	Ibrahim Shehu Shema	PDP	28 April 2011	Reelected
Kebbi State	Usman Saidu Nasamu Dakingari	PDP	26 April 2011	Reelected
Kogi State	Idris Wada	PDP	2011 29 March 2008	Elected after April 2007 election declared invalid
Kwara State	Abdulfatah Ahmed	PDP ->ACN	26 April 2011	First term
Lagos State	Babatunde Fashola	ACN	26 April 2011	Reelected
Nasarawa State	Umaru Tanko Al-Makura	CPC->ACN	26 April 2011	First term
Niger State	Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu	PDP> ACN ???	26 April 2011	Reelected
Ogun State	Ibikunle Oyelaja Amosun	ACN	26 April 2011	Reelected
Ondo State	Olusegun Mimiko	LP	2013 24 February 2009	Assumed office after election of Olusegun Agagu was nullified
Osun State	Rauf Aregbesola	ACN	26 November 2010	Assumed office after election of Olagunsoye Oyinlola was nullified
Oyo State	Isiaka Abiola Ajimobi	ACN	26 April 2011	First term
Plateau State	Jonah Jang	PDP	26 April 2011	Reelected
Rivers State	Rotimi Amaechi	PDP ->ACN	26 April 2011	Reelected
Sokoto State	Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko	PDP ->ACN	28 May 2008	Reelected after April 2007 election annulled
Taraba State	Danbaba Suntai	PDP	26 April 2011	Re-elected
Yobe State	Ibrahim Geidam	ANPP->ACN	26 April 2011	Reelected
Zamfara State	Abdul-Aziz Yari Abubakar	ANPP->ACN	26 April 2011	First term

 

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