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Why Peter Obi may become president in 2023 by default
Facts I have uncovered from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) show that Labour Party’s Peter Obi may become Nigeria’s president next year by default because Bola Tinubu and Atiku…
Kashim Shettima: A Masterstroke that gets PDP worried
“This is what you call team selection and everybody will choose depending on what they think will give them a fair chance. So people will take responsibility for the choices they have made. For…
Tinubu: Hundeyin’s rehash of old wives’ tales
The only set of people who think there is any kind of smoking gun with which to nail Bola Tinubu in the rehash of the old wives’ tales David Hundeyin concocted are the same people who never see…
No one is Islamising Nigeria
On the cusp of every political evolution in Nigeria, there is often a trafficking of recriminations — ‘’The north is scheming to dominate the south, and the south is angling to outwit the north’’. Syrupy…
Funke Akindele: Her electoral value and Lagos PDP
The grapevine in the past three weeks had been filled with rumours. This is not news as grapevines thrive on this. When there is a lack of effective and intentional communication, street people will…
Several suitors winking at Wike
On the surface it appears that choosing a vice presidential candidate for any party may seem as easy as drinking water if you do not have sore throat. It may not involve going through the rigour of an…
2023: 10 reasons Tinubu will win, By Pastor Adelaja
I was initially very hesitant to write this article. The reason being that I have too much on my plate now to deal with considering the ongoing war in Ukraine. I also didn’t want people to think that my…
Obi’s Popularity And The Secessionists’ Propaganda
“Be wary of settling in any town or village in Nigeria where an Igbo person is not found.” Only a few adults in Nigeria would say that they have not heard this saying. And on hearing it for the first time, no…
Presidential combinations: The devil and the deep blue sea
THE irony of the 2023 presidential race is that the clearer the coast, the cloudier the sky. Nigerians have never been so confused and disunited as they are under the Muhammadu Buhari…
Ogun: The Road To 2023
All is now set for the 2023 general elections. After the usual horse-trading, power squabbles and contestation among the state actors, virtually all political parties planning to participate in the coming…
Insecurity: More questions than answers
Tuesday’s attack on the Medium Security Custodial Centre, Kuje, FCT, by the Islamic State in West Africa (ISWAP) terrorists was especially scary because of the escape of all the 64 Boko Haram prisoners…
Atiku and Tinubu: Personal ambition or patriotism?
Supporters of the All Progressives Congress and Peoples Democratic Party are on the same extreme trajectory they travelled in marketing their candidates and de-marketing the opposition in 2015. Every…
Northwest holds key to Tinubu’s Victory: The Algorithm of the Choice of Running Mate
The activities of a group known as Tinubu Support Organization (TSO) in the historic city of Kaduna on Monday, 4th July, 2022 are landmark in the race to 2023 election within the fold of the ruling All…
Why Tinubu Will Choose A Muslim Running Mate
There is probably no other politician in Nigeria today…
Bello Matawale’s licence to kill – or be killed
The question of devolution of power or “true” federalism, as it is popularly called in some parts of Nigeria, has for long been posed and construed in certain government and unofficial circles as a…
2022Osun Needs A Serious Person As Governor, Not Jester
The above statement did not come from me. It emanated from an Economic Historian , Lawyer and a Public Affairs…
If Lee Kuan Yew was a Nigerian
Nigerians like to quote Lee Kuan Yew and the successes of Singapore ad nauseum. No seminar or campaign speech is complete with quotes from the gentleman. Every Nigerian loves to brag about having read his…
Open letter to Tinubu: Time for genuine, profound reconciliation with God, human beings
Dear Senator Bola Tinubu, Sincere greetings sir. My name is Olayinka Agboola. By way of introduction, I was Press Secretary to late Alhaji Lamidi Onaolapo Adesina, a former Governor of Oyo State.…
Tinubu And Sundry Accusations At Election Cycles
Let me just raise two issues on most of the stories being circulated in the social media against Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. One, why do these stories always come up during election time? Some of these…
Probing ex-CJN Tanko Mohammed
CONTRARY to some opinions that the immediate past Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Ibrahim Tanko Mohammed, should be commended for “resigning honourably” on health grounds, we urge the National Assembly to…
Nigerian politicians and pestilence of forged, missing certificates
Last week, media reports indicated that at the end of filing of personal information before the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), many of Nigeria’s presidential and vice-presidential…
No ‘Guns-For-All’ In Zamfara, But …
Reacting to the heightened insecurity of lives and property in Zamfara State, the state government has asked residents to arm themselves against bandits. Zamfara State Government in a statement on…
Tinubu’s lingering certificate conundrum
The social media, where most political debates take place these days and where brickbats are exchanged between protagonists and antagonists per nanosecond, has caught fire again with reports that Asiwaju Bola…