Restructuring seems to be the most attractive lingo for opposition candidates and their supporters as the 2019 general elections approaches. To those in PDP, restructuring has become the magic wand…
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Recently, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) registered a fresh batch of political parties. If the number of parties we have in Nigeria at present is not up to a…
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People like Bukola Saraki, the hugely compromised and controversial Senate President, believe that Nigeria is perpetually indebted to them. How he and his likes came about that ingrained entitlement mentality…
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As the 2019 general elections approaches, Nigerian politicians are moving camps, divorcing and marrying new political suitors and erecting new shades to ply their political trade. Defection, the choice name…
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When he was farcically rigged out as Governor of Ekiti State four years ago, the perpetrators of that dastardly electoral gangsterism thought that Dr. Kayode Fayemi was finished in Nigerian…
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Since Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, released what he called a ‘teaser’ to the list of looters that vandalized and wrecked the country’s treasury especially during the immediate past PDP…
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So PDP apologized for ‘mistakes’ it made before it was swept to the dustbin three years ago. Its National Chairman, Uche Secondus organized a forum for its waning members in…
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The thesis of this piece is that until political parties in opposition are more organized, purposeful and functioning beyond participating in elections, it is unimaginable and futile to expect governance…
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Sule Lamido, remember him? He is the voluble, you can say loquacious, former governor of Jigawa State who strikes a multiple-personality image in his public conducts. Sule Lamido shows off…
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For quite some time now, former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has elected for himself the role of the main opposition to the All Progressives Congress, the ruling party in Nigeria…
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My dictionary characterises the term intelligence as the ability to learn or understand things or to deal with new or difficult situations. I have a problem with this definition; for,…
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The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) was founded in Nigeria post-June 12 national political crisis in the late nineties. After the Babangidaized fraudulent transition programme that culminated criminally in the annulment…
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There is no other way to put it; the PDP as it appears today is not useful to Nigeria and to students of politics anywhere in the world. As a…
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Nigeria’s political discourse is stuck, rather tragically, in a familiar binary pattern. On one side, there are the bashers of President Muhammadu Buhari; on the other, those who feel duty…
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Last Saturday, voters in Nigeria’s oil-rich Rivers State cast their votes in a rerun election to choose lawmakers at the state and national assemblies. At stake: three seats in the…
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When relics of uncivilized, primitive and medieval men who are not fit for the consumption of the modern man are elevated to positions of authority, the people bear the brunt.…