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When in 2019 I chose the rather long subtitle for my book, Why Not; few saw what I was seeing. Citizenship, State Capture, Creeping Fascism and the Criminal Hijack of Politics in Nigeria; is truly long for a book subtitle. But I wanted to leave no doubt about what was crystallizing before my stunned gaze. […]
Continue ReadingAlthough I have been a student of political science for over fifty years, I still often get surprised by the way in which security agencies take extremist positions in reading political criticisms of the regime in power. When my good friend Pat Utomi announced the decision of the Big Tent opposition group to set up […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Professor of Political Economy, management expert, and political activist, Pat Utomi has reacted to the legal action initiated against him by the Department of State Services (DSS) following his decision to form a shadow government. Utomi, on May 5, launched the ‘Big Tent Coalition Shadow Government’, designed to serve as a credible opposition to President […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Department of State Services (DSS) has sued a former presidential candidate, Prof. Pat Utomi, accusing him of attempting to illegally usurp President Bola Tinubu’s executive powers by setting up a shadow government. In the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/937/2025, filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja, the DSS alleged that Utomi’s actions posed a threat […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Professor of Political Economy, management expert, and political activist, Patrick Okedinachi Utomi, simply called Pat Utomi, says he will no longer contest for any political office in Nigeria. He also made it clear on Friday during an interview on Politics Today on Channels Television, that he will not accept any appointment or government contract. […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Professor of Political Economy, management expert, and political activist, Pat Utomi, has inaugurated a shadow government in Nigeria, comprising of members from various opposition parties. Utomi said, the “Big Tent Coalition Shadow Government,” made up of figures drawn from several opposition parties, launched virtually on Monday evening, will function as a credible opposition force, […]
Continue ReadingRenowned economist, Prof Pat Utomi, has claimed that the nation is presently a failure, made worse by the lack of alternative thinking to turn things around. According to Utomi, the lack of alternative thinking was worsened by a total capture of the legislature and the judiciary, as he described the present National Assembly as the […]
Continue ReadingBefore I get badgered by those unwilling to read or lacking in the discipline to digest concepts, let me announce upfront that no insults are intended by either the title, or the message below But I have seen enough of the rush to abuse, by those who miss the meaning of concepts different from their […]
Continue ReadingNigeria is a mess right now. A huge mess. Even the blind can see it. And the deaf can hear the cry of anguish of Nigeria’s children. Can the country be rescued? Possibly. But the myths, years of delusions of grandeur and criminal capture of the Nigerian state threaten the possibility. Last week one of […]
Continue ReadingHappy New Year. What’s happy about the New year? Many are stepping into it with fear. Fear of economic hardship. Fear of insecurity as scores are massacred in cold blood in parts of the country or kidnapped in other parts.. Fear of the state as bully likely to destroy everything you have worked for in […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 Nigerian elections, Mr. Peter Obi and political economist, Prof. Pat Utomi on Tuesday visited the family of late Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu at his family house in Ibadan, Oyo state. The duo were received by the wife of the Late Governor, Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu, and […]
Continue ReadingIt just seems like a National emergency everywhere you look. The despondency seems matched only by the desperate sense of helplessness. The curiosity about this pall of disquiet led me to put my ears to the ground. I have been navigating Whattsapp groups. Saying little but feeling the temperature and letting the Barometer gauge. Despair […]
Continue ReadingThis is a freedom manifesto for the captured people of Nigeria offered in autobiographical form. Beginning from age 17 as an undergraduate at the University of Nigeria I have rallied resistance against injustice. My early cry for doing things right peaked with my calling out students at UNN to protest police killing of University of […]
Continue ReadingChieftain of the Labour Party (LP) and Professor of Political Economy and Management, Pat Utomi, has spoken about his struggle with cancer. In a series of tweets on Friday, Utomi revealed he was diagnosed with cancer in 2022 after a biopsy. The professor did not state the exact form of cancer he is grappling with. […]
Continue ReadingThere are many still in shock about February 25th and March 18 elections. This is understandable. In the week before the 20th of February it appeared the Obidient movement had pulled off a miracle and already made good of the first part of the first promise of the Obi/Datti manifesto: To unite and secure Nigeria. […]
Continue ReadingI was one of seven professors who facilitated a leadership training in my university here in Georgia for local government chairmen from a major Nigerian southwestern state. In the course of the training, I adverted to a January 13, 2018 column I wrote about how power literally damages the brains of people who wield it […]
Continue ReadingIf you grew up on comics, or followed the television series and movies; from Superman, Batman and Robin, Spiderman and their types, you may believe that all superheroes wear capes. You may also believe, as one superman film was promoted, that if you see the movie you will believe a man can fly. I was […]
Continue ReadingProfessor of Political Economy and Management expert, Pat Utomi, has said that alternative roads must be created if tollgate fees are going to be reintroduced. Utomi also stated that the idea to scrap the toll gates in the first place was a very unwise one as government spent tens of millions of dollars knocking them down. […]
Continue ReadingIf wisdom were ever desperately needed, that time is now. But reason is embattled and truth often comes with a high price in this kind of season even if it may bring post hummus tribute to those who speak them today. Why are we caught in this gale of emotional neighbor-bashing and bitterness of spirit […]
Continue ReadingProfessor of political economy, Pat Utomi has countered the presidency’s claim of “disgruntled religious and past political leaders” working with “external forces” to overthrow the government of President Muhammadu Buhari. Utomi in an interview with PUNCH described the claim as “silly”, and further alleged that people in power are the ones who have ordered a coup against the Nigerian people by […]
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