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PDP protest to INEC: A dissection
The world over, politicians try to win elections by fair and foul means. That tendency is the reason institutions and laws exist and are operated by men of honour and → Read More
Mangled presidential election: Go to which court?
It is fundamental to state at this outset that there is no presidential election yet conducted in 2023 and that this is one moment when one would wish he were → Read More
When a nation threw Ekweremadu under a bus
Finally, the trial of the former deputy president of the senate, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice, and others over the alleged conspiracy to traffic an initially ‘15-year-old’ in London → Read More
A critical look at Tinubu’s belated cry for his vanishing presidential bid
“Was Tinubu planning to be the president of the living or the dead?…” Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller was a German theologian and Lutheran pastor. He is best known for → Read More
No Mr. President, you failed Nigerians
Growing up, there was this expression we took both as a joke and a rebuke for one exaggerating: no one who examines him or herself has ever failed. This maxim → Read More
Festus Keyamo's shadowboxing and APC's desperate manoeuvres
Plato made one eternal statement long ago – ‘The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men’. But the Nigerian experience is → Read More
Your Excellency, General Olusegun Obasanjo, posterity beckons
An open letter to Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, former head of state and former president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Dear General, I sincerely hope this letter meets you in → Read More
Wike, G5 governors and political suicide
A swan lets out one last croaky cry and wild kick before giving up the ghost. That is the bird’s one last gasp of air and futile attempt to clutch → Read More
2023: SWOT analysis of major presidential candidates
As the 2023 presidential race gains final traction, it is now ripe to take a critical look and confirm one’s position on the ticket best placed to deliver out of the 18 political parties jostling for pre → Read More
2023: Why Atiku/Okowa ticket is numero uno
As the 2023 presidential race gains final traction, it is now ripe to take a critical look and confirm one’s position on the ticket best placed to deliver out of → Read More
Manifesto, restructuring and regional strategic interest
Generally, a manifesto is a declaration of the intentions and views of the issuer, who could be an individual, group, political party, or government over a policy direction to pursue → Read More
Ortom's Fulani profiling, genocide and dearth of statesmen
Just when you think you have seen it all in Nigeria’s deepening leadership rot, something worse pops up. Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has taken how leadership underdeveloped Nigeria → Read More
Uche Ekwunife, kindergarten president and mobocracy
There is a disturbing executive rascality and mob mentality brewing in the buildup to the 2023 presidential election. The recent occurrences by some state and non-state actors typify the unfortunate → Read More
Atiku, Obi, Tinubu: Who can reset Nigeria?
The task before the incoming president of Nigeria is twofold: providing astute leadership and resetting the nation’s unworkable structure. In other words, the core challenges confronting Nigeria today are reducible → Read More
Post-2023 Nigeria: Should a nation consciously elect a sick president?
Nigeria practices a presidential system and in a presidential democracy, the nation rests on the shoulders of one man. Health is therefore of major concern in determining the electability of a → Read More
Ekweremadu: In support of Ohanaeze Ndigbo
The recent statement by Ohanaeze Ndigbo calling for the federal government’s intervention in the travail of Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, in London revives some hope that the → Read More
PDP peace talks: Wike shaking hands with clenched fists
The Indian iconic leader, Mahatma Gandhi, once observed: “Nobody shakes hands with a clenched fist”. The nation’s leading opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has been embroiled in crisis → Read More
The death wish in Sam Omatseye's obituary
An obituary is for the dead, not for the living. So, no matter how one looks at Sam Omatseye’s ‘Obi-tuary’ on Peter Obi and the movement Obi’s entry into the → Read More
2023 and curses of phantom bishops
Democracy is about choices and freedoms. In a pluralistic nation such as Nigeria, democracy is also about inclusivity, social justice and fairness. The latter consideration brought to bear the principle → Read More
2023: PDP and politics of healing Wike's self-inflicted injury
The issue is the bruised ego of Nyesom Wike who feels so wronged he is said to constitute the reason the return of the PDP to power is hanging in → Read More