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And so, Ambode could not be forgiven his ‘sins’ by the godfather. He has been smashed like a gadfly and when the polls open sometime in February next year to pick a governor for Lagos State after the 2015/2019 electoral cycle, his name shall be missing from the ballot paper. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who is part […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) dodged a bullet; a bomb even with the conduct of its presidential primaries a few days ago. This was conducted in a calm, serene and collected manner. There were no riots. No bombs went off to mark the process as “do or die.” Nobody got killed, maimed or injured. The […]
Continue ReadingThere has been some clarity about Nigeria’s 2019 Presidential election, with the end of the October 7 deadline set by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the conduct of party primaries at all levels. On Saturday, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) at its convention held in Abuja, ratified the choice of incumbent President […]
Continue ReadingThe PDP governorship candidate in the Osun state governorship election, Senator demola Adeleke, is as unworthy as they come. Of limited education, learning and poor comportment, he really has no business aspiring for high public office-albeit the Nigerian public sphere is flushed with individuals of similar stages of arrested development. In a less normless society, […]
Continue ReadingSince Nigeria attained independence 58 years ago, the nation has been running from pillar to post, in varied attempts to take the country out of the woods, and push it to an appreciable level of development befitting a country with its plethora of human and material resources. From a parliamentary system to unitary (military) government […]
Continue Reading…When in 2014, he was asked about his successor, Fashola said he was not worried yet at the same time expressed concern. “I hope, firstly, that the next person is a lot better than me. I hope that he can do in four years what we did in eight years, and that can only be […]
Continue ReadingWith Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s endorsement of his preferred candidate, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, it was a given that Governor Akinwumi Ambode had not only lost the second term governorship ticket, he was also on his way out of political relevance. I do not feel sorry for him, neither […]
Continue Reading“My paternal great grandfather (my grandfather’s father), Rev. Emmanuel Adelabi Kayode, was an Anglican priest. He was educated by the Christian missionaries and the Anglican Church and he studied theology at Fourah Bay College in Freetown, Sierra Leonne which was at that time a satellite campus of the United Kingdom’s Universty of Durham. In 1892 […]
Continue ReadingThe genie is now well and truly out of the bottle. All the signs now indicate that the All Progressives Congress (APC) is running scared about its prospects in the 2019 elections. There can also no longer be any doubt that the party is absolutely determined to win by hook and crook. It has served […]
Continue ReadingThe number of persons involved in certificate scandals under the Buhari administration may speak to something far deeper in our society, even beyond the administration, but it is to say the least, disgraceful and embarrassing. Ordinarily considered some of the best educated black persons in the world – one US report indicates that Nigerians are […]
Continue ReadingMy NYSC year remains my most fun year ever. Maybe because I’m just a lazy girl but 1988/89 was the year I worked the least number of hours in my life. It was the year I had no lecturer’s deadline to meet. It was also, above all, the year I didn’t have to worry about […]
Continue ReadingWe see different things even when we are looking at the same picture. When CBN asked MTN to return the $8.1 billion dividends it “illegally” repatriated between 2007 and 2015, I was not thinking about MTN or CBN. Rather, my mind was on Econet, the ancestor of Airtel. Econet and MTN launched operations in Nigeria […]
Continue ReadingThe strong man of South-West politics and the acclaimed national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has remained resolute in his support for President Muhammadu Buhari ahead of the 2019 presidential election. Tinubu has forcefully emerged the leading chorister in the choir of ignorance that is singing Buhari’s praises, using […]
Continue ReadingThe Osun State election is one of the happenings in recent times that will definitely leave its print on the sands of time. The election, which took place on September 22, 2018 recorded a large turnout of voters who came out to exercise their franchise as against the recent speculations of voter apathy. Failure to […]
Continue ReadingWhen it came to crunch time, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) let Adeleke down. He must have felt like an orphan. Almost everyone knew Omisore would be vital. You can ask the U.S. embassy. The PDP sent no one. Saraki went with Okupe, who is just coming out of retirement. Saraki’s entourage had looked rich […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, let’s not mince words today and go straight to the crux of the matter. What transpired in the State of Osun, as my dear Brother, the Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, loves to refer to our State, was not a Gubernatorial, but prelude to Presidential election. The interest and resources galvanised for that election […]
Continue ReadingWhen will Lagos State be free of one man’s messianic mentality? Who will liberate the state from Bola Tinubu’s suffocating grip? Who will free Lagos, our dear Lagos, and its people from this modern-day slavery by one individual who is playing God? Is there no man courageous enough to fight the fight of his life […]
Continue ReadingAt the end, the decision as to who becomes the next Governor of Osun is left in the hands of 3,498 voters in just seven polling units across four local government areas in the state. But given how high the stake has become, it is my prayer that the exercise does not degenerate into another […]
Continue ReadingDear Asiwaju, I admire you and I have studied you from afar. In my writings, I have described you in flattering and not too flattering superlatives based on your politics. Your leadership acumen came to the fore when you withstood hurricane Obasanjo. You had a vision of a new Lagos, you created it and recruited […]
Continue ReadingWhat is going on in Osun state right now is nothing short of political theatre. It is keeping us all entertained, but it has also turned so many observers into emergency lawyers. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared the Osun Gubernatorial election of September 22 inconclusive and has ordered a supplementary election at seven […]
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