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Fellow Nigerians, please, permit me to make some quick clarifications in this season of general bickering and mutual distrust and spiteful hatred. One. I do not work for any campaign organisation. I’m supporting the PDP candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, same way I voluntarily supported Major General Muhammadu Buhari in 2015. I do so because there is no viable […]
Continue ReadingEthno-religious leanings or socio-political ideology notwithstanding, it is almost improbable for any society to underestimate the contributions of some people to the emancipation of its people and the realization of the dream of its founding fathers. For instance, America will forever remain grateful to the likes of Martin Waldseemuller, Stephen Moylan, George Washington and Martin […]
Continue Reading“About a year ago, the Deputy Governor, Barnabas Bala, told me that he was going to contest the senatorial election, I was in a dilemma to get a replacement for him. At that point, and as usual of us, when we are taking serious decisions, we consult President Muhammadu Buhari, because he is the only […]
Continue ReadingSome days ago, a joke circulated on social media and like jokes are wont to do, they satirise the truth of a social situation. The composer claimed to have eaten two Permanent Voter Cards: one belonging to a friend, and the other to ‘bae.’ The grouse? The friend would have voted for Buhari and the […]
Continue ReadingDespite dozens of presidential candidates on the ballot, next Saturday’s election is essentially between the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Sadly, the expectation that the campaign would be issue-based has turned out to be a […]
Continue ReadingBarack Obama was just a first-term senator from Illinois when he had the “audacity of hope” to run for president of the United States. It was not only an uphill task; it was an impossible one. To succeed, he had to confront, in the first instance, a principality of the American political firmament in the […]
Continue ReadingMuhammadu Buhari was voted into office as president of Nigeria in 2015 under the supposition that he had a character that was allergic to corruption. He had maintained the resolve as being intolerant to corruption since he ventured into partisan politics in 2002. But upon becoming president after four attempts to run for the office, […]
Continue ReadingI haven’t been able to conduct a conversation around the forthcoming elections without the question of godfatherism popping up. I think most Nigerians have an apathy to “godfathers”. However, on the other side of what is a very bitter divide, I see new entrants into the political arena constantly on the lookout for prospective “godfathers”. […]
Continue ReadingThe newly released figures by Nigeria’s electoral commission indicates that 84,004,084 million persons have registered to vote across the 176,996 voting points during the upcoming February 16 and March 2nd elections. A total of 23,316 candidates are jostling for 1,558 vacant elective seats and offices. For the presidential election, official data suggest that 91.7 per […]
Continue ReadingA famous unlettered lbadan politician is associated with part of the title of this article when he famously pronounced the term Peculiar Mess as PENKELEMES. But that parody is not the focus of this piece which is aimed at identifying and advising against allowing allegations and counter allegations of corruption against the APC and PDP […]
Continue ReadingNations, especially when governed by innovative and inspiring leaders can leapfrog into exemplary status, becoming a hub of impressive activities, from where the rest of the world can learn. Conversely, if the “beautyful ones” as Ayi Kwei Armah expressed it, are absent from leadership positions, nations can stagnate, making a norm of mediocrity and underachievement, […]
Continue ReadingBy the year 2050, Nigeria will have a population of 410 million people, the UN has projected. We will become the third largest country in the world, after India and China. We are currently seventh. Let’s pause for a minute. Imagine the number of hospital bed spaces, the gallons of water, the megawatts of electricity […]
Continue ReadingThe Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Africa is insisting that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, will win the February 16 presidential election. Yesterday, EIU Africa said the margin of victory was getting narrower as the election approaches, but Atiku and his political party will win the historic election. “Less than […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, let me say how excited I am that the Nigerian Presidential election is barely two weeks away. Naturally, nothing dominates the news here than the topic of who is likely to win. I have no power of clairvoyance, but I have some modest and sufficient experience about Nigeria’s political history as well as […]
Continue ReadingI am always reluctant to join issues with my professional colleagues on the pages of newspapers, more so, when that person was my former senior colleague. In my 20 years on this job, I have only had cause to publicly join issues with a senior colleague once. That person was Waziri Adio, for whom I […]
Continue Reading“The word suspension means a temporary privation or deprivation, cessation or stoppage of or from the privileges and rights of a person. The word carries or conveys a temporary or transient disciplinary procedure which keeps away the victim or person disciplined from his regular occupation or calling, either for a fixed or terminal period or […]
Continue ReadingOn Sunday, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, Garba Shehu, responded to the trio of the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Union who had expressed concerns regarding the purported suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen. Though his statement was a measured response, it was […]
Continue ReadingOn Tuesday, the National Judicial Council (NJC) directed both the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen and the acting CJN, Justice Ibrahim Tanko to respond to the petitions against them. Similarly, the petition against the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Danladi Umar, was referred to the Federal Judicial Service […]
Continue ReadingIn a Twitter poll conducted by one Philip Obin, said to be the handler of APC Nigeria Twitter handle, out of 24,912 Nigerians who voted, 13,203 Nigerians (53%) have voted Buhari as the most likely candidate to sell National Assets to friends and families. 10,961 Nigerians (44%) voted Atiku as the most likely candidate to […]
Continue ReadingThe appointment of Justice Ibrahim Tanko Mohammed as acting Chief Justice of Nigeria last Friday effectively completed the northernisation of the government of Nigeria. The executive branch is headed by a northerner, the legislature has northerners as its heads; the third arm, the judiciary, is now taken over by (or handed over to) a man […]
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