Nigeria: APC Hires Barack Obama Political Consultants

According to an official, Nigeria’s main opposition party All Progressives Congress has hired the U.S. political consultancy that helped Barack Obama win two elections to work for it in next year’s presidential vote.

AKPD Message & Media, based in Chicago, will help the APC with its campaign against the ruling People’s Democratic Party, which has governed Africa’s biggest oil producer since 1999, in elections set for Feb. 14.

“We have been working closely with AKPD Message and Media over the past few months, and we shall leverage on the firm’s skill, experience and expertise throughout the upcoming campaign cycle,” APC spokesman Lai Mohammed said in a statement.

Calls to AKPD outside office hours went unanswered and there was no immediate response to an e-mail seeking comment.