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To begin with, it is not at all clear that the presidential election of February 2023 will hold as scheduled.This, in a manner of speaking, is a restatement of the ecclesiastical revelation of Pastor Enoch Adeboye to the effect that God has not told him that there will be a presidential election in Nigeria next […]
Continue ReadingNational Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and a presidential aspirant, Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday, sympathised with the families of the victims of an Abuja-Kaduna train attack. The former Lagos State governor from 1999 t0 2007 said the attack on the Abuja-Kaduna train on Monday night by marauders on harmless passengers was a “national […]
Continue ReadingThe two most disadvantaged groups in Nigeria’s representational politics are northern Christians and Southern Muslims. In Nigeria’s internal geopolitics, these two groups are structurally invisible, politically subjugated, and told to be content with their political and symbolic marginality. Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a Muslim from Osun/Lagos states, and Yakubu Dogara, a northern Christian from Bauchi State, […]
Continue ReadingAlthough I have said in the past that next year’s presidential contest will be a short in the dark in light of the continually shifting political variables in the country, the auguries for Bola Ahmed Tinubu to clinch the nomination of APC aren’t looking pretty. Unless something really dramatic happens between now and the next APC convention, […]
Continue Reading“The concept of loyalty is a very strange one. My prayer is, may our loyalty never be tested.” That famous quote was from the Works and Housing Minister and former Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, during his senate confirmation hearing on 14th October 2015. But few remember the context. A hospitalized woman who […]
Continue ReadingDespite my well-considered warning to Bola Ahmed Tinubu in my factual treatise on him sometime last year, and how his clinching the presidency would be bad for Nigeria, he has proceeded to formally declare his interest in the 2023 presidential election. It appears this mercantile politician whose character portrait is corrosive to democracy and who […]
Continue ReadingAfter what looked like a lengthy merry go-round, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, last Monday announced what nearly everybody had always known: that he is interested in contesting for the presidency of Nigeria. While he didn’t say anything really new, he was candid in saying that it has been a life-long ambition. That explains why he […]
Continue ReadingFormer Managing Director of Alpha Beta Consulting, Dapo Apara, an All Progressives Congress leader who is presently seeking to contest in the 2023 Nigerian presidential election, Bola Tinubu; and the present Managing Director of the company, Akin Doherty, have begun discussions on a possible out-of-court settlement in the case instituted by Apara at the Lagos […]
Continue ReadingThe aged died, we replaced him with the chronically ill; who does not know that there will be wailing once more soon in the palace?. (Arugbo ku a fi olokunrun j’oye; taa ni ko mo wipe ariwo k’eekan l’aafin?). This Yoruba proverb covers the field of fears of those worried about the age and health […]
Continue Reading“It is interesting that close to the 20th anniversary of Ige’s death, Chief Bisi Akande, one of Ige’s closest collaborators released his robust autobiography, My Participations, to tell Ige’s side of the story, especially as it pertains to Afenifere. Anyone who has read Akande’s great book would know he has no kind words for those […]
Continue ReadingA quotation in which Bola Ahmed Tinubu called Muhammadu Buhari a “bigot” and an “agent of destabilization” has resurfaced on social media and is being shared by people who are opposed to Tinubu’s presidential aspirations. But Tinubu supporters are countering the quotation with a February 7, 2020 rebuttal by Tinubu’s media aide by the name […]
Continue ReadingOsita Okechukwu, the Director-General, Voice of Nigeria (VON), has maintained that there was no agreement to make the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, the running mate of the President, Muhammadu Buhari, in 2015. Chief Bisi Akande, former interim National Chairman of APC, had claimed in his book, ‘My Participations’, that […]
Continue ReadingPan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, on Thursday, lambasted former interim national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, for saying he (Adebanjo) pestered APC chieftain, Bola Tinubu, to build him a house in Lekki, where he now resides. Chief Adebanjo, 93, at a press conference in Lagos on Thursday, […]
Continue ReadingFormer Osun State Governor and founding national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, released his memoir, ‘My Participations’ last week in Lagos and I have read it. The 534-page memoir, including an 11-page foreword by Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, was apparently written for two reasons. One, to render his own […]
Continue ReadingPan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has lambasted Chief Bisi Akande, over allegations he levelled against him (Adebanjo) in his book, ‘My Participation’. Chief Akande, a former Governor of Osun State and first interim chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), had last week presented his book to the public, where in one […]
Continue ReadingIndications are very strong that the All Progressives Congress (APC) may adopt consensus arrangement to pick its presidential candidate for the 2023 general elections. According to Punch, top chieftains of the APC, who confided in newspaper on Tuesday, said stalwarts of the party had started reaching out to members nursing presidential ambition on the need […]
Continue ReadingIt is a measure of the importance and relevance of the man known as Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu that since the return to civilian rule in 1999, he has managed to remain a major reference in the politics of Lagos State, the South West of Nigeria, and parts of the West African sub-region. He could […]
Continue ReadingFormer governor of Lagos state and a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu has returned to the country after months spent in the UK for medical reasons. He arrived Nigeria on Friday night October 8 and was received by the Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and other APC chieftains.
Continue ReadingIn September 2018, there was an interesting exchange in Premium Times between Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and his ‘illustrious predecessor’ (as he described him), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. The issue in contention was restructuring of the country. The latter had taken on the former on his postulation that what Nigeria required was “managing resources properly and […]
Continue ReadingFormer governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun has visited Bola Tinubu in London. He joins the growing list of highly placed Nigerian politicians who have visited the All Progressives Congress (APC) leader in London. During President Buhari’s medical trip, he also dropped by to see Tinubu in London before returning to Abuja. A couple of […]
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