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The challenge confronting OBIdients
THIS is not the first time that a party or conglomerate of political parties will be making an attempt to remove a conservative party-led government at the centre. In the past, we have had Obafemi Awolowo’s…
Lagos and the relaunch of ‘Jigi Bola’
Recently, the Sanwo-Olu’s administration re-launched the blindness prevention program, codenamed Jigi Bola, which was initiated in 2001 by the then Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed…
Deconstructing the Atiku Arise TV interview
It is no longer news that I am an ardent supporter of the former vice president of Nigeria and presidential flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ─Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in his yet…
2023: The catastrophic error of Muslim- Muslim ticket
It is with great pains that I air my opinion on this issue of Muslim-Muslim ticket in Nigeria. Away from party and political interests, let us take a retrospective look at the idea. What the proponents of…
Tinubu’s Muslim-Muslim ticket: The calculation and the war
The 2023 election year is here! The political awareness is unprecedented. The anger against the system is deep-rooted. Whatever is left of our fulsome value system is facing grievous depredation…
Uzodimma: Much ado about a wristwatch
THERE has been much ado recently about a costly wristwatch worn by Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State while on an official visit to Daura, Katsina State. Typically, the issues being raised about the…
Religion, the Nigerian Demon
Physically remote but fully involved in the processes leading up to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s victory at the APC primaries and also in the power play that led to the emergence of Senator Kashim Shettima…
Aregbe’s political apostasy and the lessons of defeat
The Osun State governorship election has come and gone. One of the dramatis personae in the political drama of the state and former governor of the state, Rauf Aregbesola deliberately played…
The full implications and ramifications of the Osun Gubernatorial Elections just won by the PDP
Arise TV interview moderated by Ayorinde and his two female colleagues with Adamu Abdullahi arguably the most powerful man in Nigeria today next to President Buhari has spoken volumes about the precarious…
Davido/Portable: The limits of influencer marketing
The appearance of Habeeb Okikiola, otherwise known as Portable, at a campaign rally as guests of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and Davido for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osogbo, Osun State, has…
The curious case of northern Christians
The rumpus over the Muslim-Muslim presidential pairing of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was, I have to say, inevitable. I would be lying to say I was surprised. Since Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu…
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…