Nigerian Tribune editorial in the "Nigerian Tribune" that accused the ACN of imposing its candidates in the party primaries for the forthcoming national elections. An ACN spokesman called the paper a front for the People's Democratic Party (PDP). Indeed since Nigeria's new democratic journey, the newspaper has engaged in running battle with some political group which styled itself as " progressives " but which curiously has consistently used the name of the newspaper's founder, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, one of Nigeria's foremost nationalists, to campaign for votes. The progressives who formed the nucleus of Alliance for Democracy (AD),and later Action Congress and Action
Nigerian Heresy Nigerian Heresy Nigerian Heresy is a term introduced by the U.S. Episcopal equal rights activist Maury Johnston in his article, "Facing the Spectre of Schism" (2006), to describe the theology articulated by many Anglican bishops outside of North America, and especially in Africa, who do not hold to a widespread Anglican understanding of the basis for Protestant faith as being scripture, tradition, and reason. Those claimed to be guilty of the Nigerian Heresy espouse "sola scriptura", or scripture alone, as the basis of Christian faith. Another element in identifying Nigerian Heresy is the innovative practice of overlapping dioceses and annexing