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    BBC News Africa‏Verified account @BBCAfrica Jul 5

    "Before the elections, this move is a serious danger that could plunge Nigeria into serious political crisis": University of Abuja's Ernest Ereke on the recent split in the country's governing party APC. How do you think this will affect the elections ahead? Comments are openpic.twitter.com/wMhl8fapgF

    7:41 AM - 5 Jul 2018
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    • Winthrop Rodgers Boadi AlexAnder Mrmohammed Salihu YAW OWIREDU 🇬🇭 🌟 Chief Ewu of Benin Kingdom Daimu manafi 🇹🇿 Victor Sarungi John Youhanes M. CHUDIIMO
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      2. ZahrahMusa PhD‏ @Zahrahmusa Jul 5
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Tell Ernest to calm down. Those are leaving APC aren't as important as he imagines. They are not the reasons for APC success in 2015. The are free to go.

        4 replies 7 retweets 13 likes
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      1. @ihatelooters‏ @DavidOjukwu6 Jul 5
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Why should another person be taking panadol for someone else headache.

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      2. OLAWALE OLADEJO‏ @Olawaleonline Jul 5
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        D development doesn't indicate possible "political crisis". It is a reoccurring decimal in d Nigerian polity, months to 2015 general elections same occurred within d then ruling party. Whenever election is approaching at both State & Federal level politicians switch sides.

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      3. OLAWALE OLADEJO‏ @Olawaleonline Jul 5
        Replying to @Olawaleonline @BBCAfrica

        The Nigerian media don't call it "Split" they call it "faction" and such moves are always greeted with denial by the ruling party while the opposition welcomes it with pump & pageantry. So it's misleading to say d development "could plunge Nigeria into serious political crisis"

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      1. LIFE with Mike‏ @mikeoyebanji Jul 5
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        There have been several such split in the past. It has never caused political crisis. It never will.

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      1. TimeIsNowServices‏ @LAWRENCECRISPUS Jul 5
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Goodluck E Jonathan was unceremoniously &unapologetically kicked out of office for the very SAME reason @MBuhari was elected;Absolutely insane state of insecurity,he failed flat,nw wait for the Verdict frm PISSED Nigerians!

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      1. Tajudeen.‏ @tajudine2013 Jul 5
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Without a united front, no Nigeria politicians can defeat him, but he need to apply more action to governance. He need to reform his cabinet too, to exclude betrayal. Nigeria trust Buhari and Oshinbajo.

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      1. NewNigeria‏ @nigeria1sth Jul 5
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Buhari’s failure to be a democrat hurt his party. He took a hard line on Dictatorship and divide &rule. There’s no strategy to him.

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      1. Joshua Wilson‏ @ogbaman70 Jul 6
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Nigeria can kill or do anything for political position.

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      1. @mrcow_enang‏ @mrcow_enang Jul 6
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Speechless

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      1. Ambrose G.Josephson‏ @AmbroseGideon1 Jul 6
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Forget about all this split In APC,some of them already know that APC will not win the 2019 election that is why this people just move on

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      1. Alao‏ @UtdPlexus Jul 5
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Same old story: Padi padi, wayo wayo. Who 'em dey fool?

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      1. nasiruabubakar‏ @nasirua64025240 Jul 5
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Nothing will happen

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      1. Maaji Idris‏ @maajiidris Jul 5
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Alarmist headline! If you leave a party bcos of personal ambition or selfish interest, is all democracy. Certainly, majority will pitch their tents with Buhari to ensure our country does not go back into the hands that destroyed it in the first instance. It's all about Corruption

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      1. UNCOLONISED‏ @amm_onimisi Jul 5
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        In 2015 most of joined APC seeking cover from the Buhari's Tsunami bet they are thinking the tides are down but they are wrong.

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      1. Sefiyat Sophie Musa‏ @CallmeGoldeneye Jul 5
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Politics, in Nigeria seems to me, for years,or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

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      1. MAliyu‏ @Yar_Aliyu Jul 5
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        It amount to nothing, let them go we don't want them. Our support is for Buhari.

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      1. 3CN‏ @Gateshild Jul 5
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        You didn’t report the killing in plateau and they have paid you people to favor the Cy. Evil

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