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Dealing with Peter Obi’s pandemic of distortions
It is time for Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party to pause and…
Naked Supreme Court dance not a bad thing after all
WHEN I first read the news in People’s Gazettethrough a link forwarded to me by a friend, I prayed that it would not be true. My prayer was in spite of the evidence to the contrary provided in…
Wike: From handmaid to rigger of history?
Between 2006 and 2007, at the tail end of former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration, then Governor of Rivers State, Dr Peter Odili, was almost coasting home to victory as the Peoples Democratic…
Why Tinubu will choose a muslim running mate
There is probably no other politician in Nigeria today who recognizes the imperative of choosing a Muslim from the north of Nigeria as his running mate for the 2023 presidential election as Asiwaju Bola…
This is not how Ganduje will find redemption
The chances are that each time you hear the name of Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano, what comes to mind is the 2018 video of a man pocketing bribes. In that infamous video, the man receiving wads of dollars…
PDP, Atiku and the fear of Wike
With the loss of the presidential ticket, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has suddenly become an important figure to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential flagbearer, Atiku Abubakar. It was…
Emi lo kan: The PR strength of Tinubu’s campaign
Nigerians often roar at the utterance of audacious statements by public…
APC and the Asiwaju Bola Tinubu question
WITH the party conventions over, Nigerians now know the flagbearers of the political parties and…
Train of two traitors
Ifeanyi Okowa hosted the meeting as a hero of the south. Atiku Abubakar hoisted him as his super aide or VP choice. By that, he made his Asaba summit of southern governors a zero for his region. And…
Atiku Abubakar: The ‘customer’ from Jada
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar was 37 years old when Nigeria’s music legend and anti-apartheid crusader, Sonny Okosun released the song, Which Way Nigeria. Three years later, when the Ozziddi King came out with …
Muslim-Muslim ticket, the prostitute and her Quran
Separating the Nigerian from his politics and religion is almost like a man trying to forcefully pull off a strand of hair from his moustache. It is akin to trying to prise off the glue that wedges Siamese twins…
The awkward Muslim-Muslim ticket
We really don’t know the depth of our political divisions and complications in Nigeria, do we? There are certain questions I have been asking along this line for decades and I would say nobody has…
2023: Is Tinubu’s Old Age A Testament Of Great Blessing?
The Lord has blessed us with old age. We should never be afraid of growing old; in fact, old age can be a great…
Will Tinubu back or abandon restructuring?
Restructuring. This has been the governing subject since 2015. It became very tendentious with the secessionist agitations and the killings by gangs of criminals across the country. The APC government was…
Muslim-Muslim ticket: Sense or nonsense?
Too much deafening noise. Too much puerile postulation. Too much barber-shop theorising and hairdresser’s salon prognostication. Too much gutter gossip. Too much arm-wringing and hand-twisting among jostlers…
Why Tinubu Will Choose a Muslim Running Mate
There is probably no other politician in Nigeria today who recognizes the imperative of choosing a Muslim from the north of Nigeria as his running mate for the 2023 presidential election as Asiwaju Bola…
Between Otta Farmer And Obio-Akpor Reincarnate
Mobile telephony was nonexistent at the time. Onyema Ugochukwu, my boss and senior colleague at the erstwhile Daily Times of Nigeria Plc, however, sent word to me to see him at his Adeniyi Jones, Ikeja,…
Well done, Yemi Osinbajo
It’s a few days after the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential convention, and I would like to commend Vice President Yemi Osinbajo for conducting a decent and effective presidential run that has…
Atiku, Obi, Tinubu, Kwankwaso: How it will be won and lost
Following my last intervention in March, on the ASUU strike, which surprisingly has continued unabated, I made a personal decision to focus attention on the activities of political parties and the process…
The horror at Owo: where was Amotekun?
Sunday the 5th of June 2022 started like any other Sunday in the year. It was a day set apart for God-worship universally. And for the…
A Labour Party, PDP, NNP & YPP alliance as a potent force for change?
Dr Doyin Okupe, former media presidential assistant, a physician and politician, made a far-reaching statement last Saturday on Labour Party’s Peter Obi’s soaring and intimidating political profile, leading to the…
Why candidate Obi may fail
After my last Facebook post analyzing the chances of Peter Obi’s Labour Party winning the next presidential election, I received much flak from friends and followers for concluding that his chances were…
Viewing the Muslim-Muslim ticket from all angles
Ordinarily, the issue of a Muslim-Muslim ticket or a Christian-Christian ticket or an Igbo, Hausa or Yoruba president succeeding another Igbo, Hausa or Yoruba president wouldn’t have been an issue in a…
2023: Why Atiku Abubakar needs Dele Momodu as running mate
My dear country men and women, thanks for the deluge of messages and phone calls last week after reading my open letter to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) delegates. We all know the outcome of the elections held at the Velodrome of the…