Nigeria, Jan. 16 -- Ahead of the 2027 presidential election, it appears the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) may not be slowing down on the expansion of its sphere of influence into hitherto hostile parts of Nigeria in its journey to possible one party dominance of the country. In addition to making successful inroad into the South South geo-political zone and greater parts of the Middle Belt, the South East geo-political zone is in the cusp of its political history, where a tectonic shift from its allegiance to the former ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the APC is about to be actualised.

Since the advent of the Fourth Republic in 1999, Nigeria's South-East geo-political, which is also the homeland of the Igbo, one of the ...