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March 29, 2015 : Gbenga Adeniji and Kamarudeen Ogundele 11 Comments
Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose
A member of the All Progressives Congress, Jide Owolabi, was reportedly shot on Saturday as members of the opposition party challenged the Deputy Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Olubunmi Olusola-Eleka, during the presidential election.
It was gathered that problem started when Olusola-Eleka was moving around the polling units in Ikere Ekiti to monitor the accreditation process.
According to the incumbent senator and candidate of the APC for Ekiti South Federal Constituency, Anthony Adeniyi, aggrieved youths who saw his action as violating the electoral law accosted him and asked him to return to his polling unit.
Adeniyi claimed that Owolabi was shot on the buttocks by one of the security operatives attached to the deputy governor when argument ensued.
But Governor Ayodele Fayoses Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, in a statement denied that security men attached to Olusola-Eleka shot any APC member.
Adelusi said rather, it was the APC thugs stationed along Odo Oja Area in Ikere Ekiti that ambushed Olusola-Eleka and almost killed him, though he managed to escape.
The statement said, The Deputy Governor received a call that card reader machines in some polling booths were not functioning.
Dr. Olubunmi Olusola-Eleka decided to visit the polling booths, based on the reports, but at Odo Oja Area, some APC thugs who apparently had been stationed there to cause violence in Ikere welcomed the deputy governors convoy with stones and the security attached to him had to shoot in the air to disperse them.
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Unofficial results from Saturday's polls showed that the All Progressives Congress (APC) may have taken an early lead in the race for the Senate and House of Representatives at two of the polling units at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Result announced to voters by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)'s presiding officer at the polling unit showed that for the House of Representatives, the APC scored 255 votes, while the Peoples Democratic Party polled 254 at Unit 021.
At polling unit 022, the APC polled 334 while PDP got 241 votes.
The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) polled 45 votes while the Labour Party (LP) got 11 votes.
The results for the Senate from Unit 022, APC polled 337 while the PDP got 281 votes.
The PDP however nicked the Senate for Unit 021 polling 286 votes while the PDP got 260 votes.
It was the same scenario for the presidential election at the two units as the APC came out tops, polling a total of 613 votes while the PDP got 595 votes.
A breakdown of the result shows that in unit 021, PDP polled 293 to APC's 265 while for unit 022, PDP polled 302, while APC got 348.
Meanwhile in Lagos state, early results trickling in indicate that the APC Presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), is winning Lagos by wide margin.
Results collated in different polling units revealed that Buhari defeated Jonathan in the ward of Senator Musiliu Obanikoro and the PDP governorship candidate, Jimi Agbaje.
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Left-leaning authors often maintain that conservatives hate democracy, and, historically, this is somewhat true. The political Right, maintains the progressive economist and columnist Paul Krugman, has always been uncomfortable with democracy.
But today its progressives themselves who, increasingly, are losing faith in democracy. Indeed, as the Obama era rushes to a less-than-glorious end, important left-of-center voices, like Matt Yglesias, now suggest that democracy is doomed.
Yglesias correctly blames the breakdown of American constitutional democracy on both Republicans and Democrats; George W. Bush expanded federal power in the field of national defense while Barack Obama has done it mostly on domestic issues. Other prominent progressives such as American Prospects Robert Kuttner have made similar points, even quoting Italian wartime fascist leader Benito Mussolini about the inadequacy of democracy.
Like some progressives, Kuttner sees the more authoritarian model of China as ascendant; in comparison, the U.S. and European models the latter clearly not conservative seem decadent and unworkable. Other progressives, such as Salons Andrew OHehir, argue that big money has already drained the life out of American democracy. Like Yglesias, he, too, favors looking at other political systems.
This disillusionment reflects growing concern about the durability of the Obama coalition. In 2002, liberal journalist John Judis co-authored the prescient The Coming Democratic Majority, which suggested that emerging demographic forces millennials, minorities and well-educated professionals, particularly women would assure a long-term ascendency of the Left. This view certainly fit in with the rise of Barack Obama, who galvanized this coalition.
Judis now, however, suggests that this majority coalition, if not dissolving, is certainly cracking. In his well-balanced article, The Emerging Republican Advantage, he notes that, even as the white working class shifts ever further to the right, so, too, have a growing number of college-educated (but not graduate level) professionals. In 2014, millennials voted Democratic, but that edge over Republicans was 10 points less than in 2012. White millennials went decisively Republican. The Latino margin favoring Democrats dropped, while Asians, who strongly favored Obama in his runs, seem to have divided their votes close to evenly.
Alternatives to democracy
Ideologues like elections, when the results go their way, but not so much when they lose. This was true for some right-of-center intellectuals who recoiled against the Clinton presidency and among GOP House members who impeached him for his sordid, but basically irrelevant, personal affairs. Even today, some conservatives believe we may be entering Republican end times but even then, few would suggest scrapping the Constitution itself.
The meltdown of the Obama legislative agenda has fostered, instead, a Caesarism of the Left. This is evidenced, in part, by broad backing for the White Houses ruling through executive decrees. Some progressives even suggest the president, to preserve Obamacare, should even ignore the Supreme Court, if it rules the wrong way in June.
Progressive authoritarianism has a long history, co-existing uncomfortably with traditional liberal values about free speech, due process and political pluralism. At the turn of the 20th century, the novelist H.G. Wells envisioned the New Republic, in which the most talented and enlightened citizens would work to shape a better society. They would function, he suggested, as a kind of secret society, reforming the key institutions of society from both within and without.
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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reids (D-Nev.) announcement Friday that he will not seek reelection next year has progressive groups licking their chops at the prospect of seeing Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) as the Democratic leader.
New York Sen. Charles Schumer, currently Democrats' No. 3 in the Senate, is the heavy favorite to succeed Reid, but progressive groups have other ideas.
Democracy for America (DFA) is urging Warren to run for president, but says that if she passes, theyd back her or someone from her wing of the party as the next Democratic leader in the Senate.
The Progressive Change Campaign Committee echoed that sentiment, predicting the race for Democratic leader wont be a coronation for the establishment members of the party believed to be next in line.
Her lifetime of fighting for the little guy against Wall Street power shows she can think big, wage tough fights against powerful interests, and win key votes in the Senate, the PCCC said in a statement. She's the definition of a leader. There will likely not be a coronation to replace Harry Reid as Senate Democratic Leader, and Elizabeth Warren is right up there with others as someone who would be taken very seriously."
Warren's office on Friday morning said she would not run for the leader's spot.
In addition to Schumer, Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Senate Democratic Conference Secretary Patty Murray (D-Wash.) could be in the mix.
But in Senate races playing out across the country, the progressive groups have shown theyre thirsty for new blood in the party. They credit Warren with bringing their primary initiatives, like the expansion of entitlement programs, into the mainstream.
Both the DFA and the PCCC cited Thursday's vote on a Warren amendment to expand Social Security benefits, which was backed by 42 Democrats in the Senate, as evidence the Massachusetts Democrat already has the gravitas to lead the party.
Nearly the entirety of the Democratic caucus voted to expand Social Security benefits last night, Sroka said. Shes shown the ability to lead in the caucus and theres no doubt she could be a real force for the party.
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