{"id":26653,"date":"2018-06-11T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fdcng.com\/?p=26653"},"modified":"2018-06-11T08:00:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T08:00:01","slug":"democracy-day-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fdcng.com\/democracy-day-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy Day 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column]

DOWNLOAD PDF<\/a><\/div> [\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Dear Subscriber,<\/p>\n

With less than 25% of his 4-year term left, the Buhari administration\u2019s sense of urgency and execution seems to be awakened.<\/p>\n

The team is not only in rapid response mode, but is also finally formulating a coherent electoral message. The problem now is that because of the huge election promises of 2014 (“CHANGE”) and the messiah-image of its principal, a crisis of false expectations has overwhelmed the APC election apparatus.<\/p>\n

The challenge now is how to reset the image and expectations button so as to win back the confidence of skeptical, indifferent and bored citizens.<\/p>\n

In the attached slides shared at the Democracy Day Channels Tv forum, the FDC Think-Tank gives a dispassionate and objective review of 3 years of a mix of the good, average and dumb policies, and their outcomes. The Nigerian economic transition from a crooked and failing economy (under the PDP), to a fragile but slowly recovering emerging economy (under the APC), has become a subject of acrimonious debate amongst analysts. This is occurring at a time of intense data propaganda, selective amnesia and information asymmetry targeted at a mostly confused and miserable Nigerian voting public.<\/p>\n

Do enjoy your read…[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Dear Subscriber, With less than 25% of his 4-year term left, the Buhari administration\u2019s sense of urgency and execution seems…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fdcng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fdcng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fdcng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fdcng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fdcng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fdcng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26654,"href":"https:\/\/fdcng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26653\/revisions\/26654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fdcng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fdcng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fdcng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}