{"id":30674,"date":"2014-08-28T21:58:54","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T20:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=30674"},"modified":"2014-08-28T21:58:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T20:58:54","slug":"2015-eurasia-tips-jonathan-says-apc-disarray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2015-eurasia-tips-jonathan-says-apc-disarray\/","title":{"rendered":"2015: Eurasia tips Jonathan,  says APC in disarray."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"color: #575757;\"><br class=\"Apple-interchange-newline\" \/>With the presidential poll few months away, World\u2019s largest political risk group, Eurasia, has said \u00a0that based on scientific calculations, President Goodluck Jonathan is expected to return as President.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #575757;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #575757;\">. Eurasia gave PDP a 75% chance of winning the election but said APC, with 25%, still had a chance \u201cif it can mobilize behind a strong northern presidential candidate that has Buhari\u2019s backing and a vice president who can deliver votes and high turnout in the southwest\u201d.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #575757;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #575757;\">\u00a0. The US based group said the defections that affected PDP have stopped and have even been reversed in some cases, noting that the biggest opposition party, All Progressives Congress (APC), was in \u201cdisarray\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #575757;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #575757;\">The Africa Director of Eurasia, Philippe de Pontet, said \u00a0that the six months leading to the presidential election \u201cwill be tense\u201d, forecasting \u201cconstant politicking, attacks by Boko Haram\u2026 and policy stagnation\u201d \u2500 and a possible outbreak of riot in northern Nigeria if Jonathan is re-elected<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #575757;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #575757;\">. Pontet wrote: \u201cA Jonathan win could feed political unrest in the north, but makes it less likely that rebels in the Niger Delta re-ignite their attacks on oil infrastructure and personnel.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #575757;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #575757;\">Pontet said it was unlikely there would be fiscal or monetary policy \u201cupheaval\u201d and that the campaigns may not completely upend the investment climate or reverse Nigeria\u2019s economic momentum.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the presidential poll few months away, World\u2019s largest political risk group, Eurasia, has said \u00a0that based on scientific calculations, President Goodluck Jonathan is expected to return as President. .&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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