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Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Kebbi State, Alhaji Attahiru Maccido, on Wednesday assured political officeaspirants that the party would be transparentinits primaries in the state.
We would work on what the voters or consensus suggest during the primaries,he said.
He made the statement in Birnin Kebbi during a visit by Alhaji Sule Sami, a governorship aspirant, to the partys secretariat.
Maccido called on the electoratein the state to rally round the party and support its candidates at all levels during the 2015 general elections.
Ealier, the aspirant saidAPCwouldaddress the nations challenges ofunemployment and insecurity if it won the polls.
He said the stateneeded competent and credible government that would listen and provide for the needs and aspiration of the electorate.
We would also conduct our electioneering campaigns with respect and maturity, devoid of inflammatory comments.
He called on the electorate toregister and collect their voter cards, to avoid beingdisenfranchised.
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A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Enugu State, and the governorship candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria in the 2011 election, Mr. Valentine Nnadozie, has defected to the Peoples Democratic Party along with his supporters.
A statement from the Office of the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor said Nnadozie announced his defection to the PDP during a solidarity visit with his followers to Governor Sullivan Chime at the Government House.
According to the statement, Nnadozie said the decision to join the PDP was influenced by the achievements of the party in Enugu State and also at the federal level.
Nnadozie, during the solidarity visit, told Chime and the leaders of the PDP in the state that he was coming to the party with over eighty percent of the more than 300,000 registered members of the APC in Enugu State.
Nnadozie, who was a member of the PDP before moving to the defunct ACN to contest the 2011 governorship election, pleaded with Chime and the leaders of the PDP to re-admit him and his supporters as lost sheep into the fold.
We have come sir, to ask you and PDP to kindly re-admit your lost sheep into the PDP family, having gone to the wilderness over these years.
We have come to identify with you and the transformation agenda ofPresident Jonathan and the giant strides of your administration in Enugu State.
We have come to pledge our loyalty to you and the PDP, he said.
Nnadozie explained that his sojourn in the APC had deprived him of the platform to talk for his people, as, according to him, the opposition partys ideologies negated his own political philosophy.
We have come to work together with you and PDP to move our dear Enugu State forward and to the next level, he told Chime.
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Are these men sniffing? (REUTERS/Jim Bourg)
We have long known that liberals are more likely to choose other liberals as romantic partners and that conservatives alsotend to prefermates with similar political viewpoints. Indeed, other than religion, ideology is a strongercorrelate than other traits in the selection of long-term partners. But how does this work?
A new article in the American Journal of Political Science by Rose McDermott (Brown), Dustin Tingley (Harvard), and Peter Hatemi (Penn State)suggests that the explanation could be that liberals and conservatives smell differently and that each prefers the smell of ideologically similar persons. That body odor influences attractionis well-established. The authors argue that smell signals alsoserve other functions, such asdisease avoidance, cheater detection, defense against outgroups,and social cohesion. These may be related to political ideology. For example, they note:
[..] greater disgust sensitivity, which is intimately interconnected with the neural substrates of smell, predicts more conservative positions, particularly around issues involving morality and sexual reproduction. These underlying, physically experienced predilections can come to be expressed as opinions on such topics as abortion, homosexuality, gay marriage, and a host of other ideological topics
They then claim:
If social attitudes are linked to odor[..]then one mechanism that odor preferencestransfer from parents to children may operate throughtheir mothers choice of mate. In this way, social processesmay drive some of the pathways by which individualscome to prefer those whose ideological smellmatches their own.
The researchers askeda group of ideologically diverse people to rate the body scent of both liberals and conservatives (without seeing them in person). On average, ideologically similar people appreciated the scent of similarly disposed people more. So, scent could be a way in which we subconsciously select mates of similar dispositions.
Before the more creative among us go outand create perfumes for liberals and conservatives, I should note that the effect is very small and teeters on the edge of what we would normally call statistically significant. That is: we are not as certain as we would ideally like to be that the finding isnt a consequence of mere chance. There are probably other more important mechanisms that produce sorting on ideology than smell. Still, its an innovative new study on the link between biology and politics.
Erik Voeten is the Peter F. Krogh Associate Professor of Geopolitics and Justice in World Affairs at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and the Department of Government.
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