By Clifford Ndujihe
DESPITE the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC’s move to push the 2011 elections to April next year instead of January announced two weeks ago, leading presidential aspirants are upping their campaigns.
They are fighting on all fronts, using all tactics available to get the much-sought advantage and leverage. They are waging the war in the media, deploying age and ethnic-cum regional sentiments, embarking on mudslinging as well as intense consultations and horse-trading.
Obviously, the presidential contest is panning out as President Goodluck Jonathan versus Northern aspirants affair.
The political atmosphere will be further electrified next week with a fresh flurry of activities, Saturday Vanguard gathered.
Aspirants woo Ndigbo
For a start, some of the aspirants, it was learnt will send emissaries on Monday to Owerri, the Imo State Capital. Their mission: To convince the Igbo to back their aspiration.
It will be recalled that President Goodluck Jonathan, Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar sent their representatives to the United States recently to woo the Igbo during the World Igbo Congress, WIC
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