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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…
Tinubu and Atiku: Birds of a feather
Disappointment was powdered on the faces of many of the young people around me when Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo did not win the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC). To them, Osinbajo was…
KNOCK, KNOCK! WHO’S THERE?
If you are of my generation, and you have some literary inclination, you would have read the novel by James Hadley Chase, with the above title. Knock, Knock! Who’s There? It was the dream of Johnny Bianda…
If To Say I Bi Delegate
Nigeria has become a country where each week throws up an oddity. Simply put, we have become a country of one week one trouble, apologies to Anezi Okoro who wrote the 1972 novel One Week One Trouble. Nigeria is…
2023: The battle for Nigeria’s soul has just begun
AFTER much intrigues and dithering, the All Progressives Congress, APC, on Tuesday, finally held its special convention where the presidential candidate in the 2023 elections emerged. Against all odds,…
2023: APC rewards Tinubu’s self-interest and entitlement politics
AS I write, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, former Lagos State governor, has just emerged as the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in next year’s general election.Those who thought…
Choosing a running mate: What Atiku needs to know
FORMER Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, won a well-deserved victory at the Peoples Democratic Party’s, PDP, presidential primary of May 28, 2022. With this victory, he would be reprising his…
Has Tinubu read the story of S. L. Akintola’s last days?
The war of the First Republic had reached a feverish height. Those it consumed were wheeled to the sepulchre by the day. Blood of political party faithful painted the sky crimson. According to Femi Kehinde, a…
APC Presidential Ticket: Memo To South-West Leadership
This advice may be unsolicited, but it will help the All Progressives Congress (APC) leadership in the South West to avoid the pitfall of the past. Although our leaders claim they have learnt from their past…
Atiku’s candidacy and Nigeria’s delicate balance
If power does not go to the south in 2023, the pivotal role of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar will have to be scrutinised. His life ambition is to be president of Nigeria and his influence on the leadership of the…
Asiwaju Goes For Broke!
A couple of weeks ago, on April 29th to be precise, I sent a message to my friend of over two decades, Richard Akinnola, complaining about a news report credited to the Vice- President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, to…
Visit to Spain: Let’s Buga for Mr President
I’m sure you know the song by Kizz Daniel and Tekno, which is now a rave of the moment:Let me see you dey buga o (go low-low-low)Let me see you (go low-low-low) buga won. And you see people huffing and puffing…
The Nigerian Immigration and the failure of the system
Immigration passport appointment date is fraud and waste of Nigeria peoples time. This is due…