Mimiko finally defects, adopts implausible causes
After many months of pussyfooting, Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State has finally defected from the Labour Party (LP) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), putting himself out of his self-created...
View Article$9.3m scandal: attack on Oritsejafor not attack on church
In his response to allegations suggesting he was indirectly liable in the illegal haul of $9.3m cash to South Africa by two Nigerians and an Israeli, Ayo Oritsejafor, Pastor of Word of Life Bible...
View ArticleEkiti judicial crisis: Jonathan finally speaks
After Ekiti State governor-elect, Ayo Fayose, inspired the intimidation of the judiciary in Ekiti a few weeks ago, I wrote that it was necessary for Nigerians to wait for the reactions of President...
View ArticleAdamawa legislative coup miscarries
Adamawa State politicians are shameless, particularly their lawmakers. Last week, a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja ordered the dethronement of Acting Governor Umaru Fintiri. He had taken office...
View ArticleOfficer and gentleman Gowon at 80
He comes closest than anyone in Nigeria, alive or dead, to the universal definition of an officer and a gentleman. Though he was overthrown in humiliating circumstances at a relatively young age,...
View ArticleFayose grieves the heart
The euphoria that lathered his inauguration as governor a second time was overwhelming. Governor Ayo Fayose and the voters who put him in office after about eight years in the wilderness will expect...
View ArticleGovt negotiates with ‘faceless’ Boko Haram
It was an unusual volte-face. That is if you believe the Goodluck Jonathan presidency at any time ever had a principled or nuanced revulsion to negotiating with terrorists. The facts of the...
View Article2015: Propaganda and the road to fascism
All political parties indulge in one form of propaganda or the other. As the campaign for the 2015 polls begins, the use of propaganda will intensify. The All Progressives Congress (APC) will try to...
View ArticleTambuwal’s defection, Jonathan’s rage
Except he and his aides, and perhaps a number of other people to whom the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, revealed his mind, no one else knows just how adequately the Speaker’s...
View ArticleBoko Haram as our remorseless nemesis
Boko Haram, with or without the ubiquitous Abubakar Shekau, has proved surprisingly good at holding captured towns. The terror group is described as ragtag, and its commanders untrained, unschooled and...
View ArticleReligious politics, Southwest and general elections
In the midst of a rising politicisation of religion under the Goodluck Jonathan government, analysts had speculated that the Yoruba of the Southwest would rebuff the schismatic campaign because of its...
View ArticleOgun and 2015 polls: APC’s unending conundrum
After hesitating for many months, the Olusegun Osoba camp in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun State has decided to defect to the Social Democratic Party (SDP). Though Chief Osoba...
View Article2015: INEC’s indefensible management of PVCs
In matters as fairly simple as registering voters, producing voter cards, and issuing them to owners with precision, it was expected that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) would pull...
View ArticleBanire, Bamidele and APC’s Young Turks
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has an uphill, but not insurmountable, task of keeping its states safe from predators and winning the 2015 presidential election. The party probably recognises the...
View Article‘Baby Doc’ Fayose: usurper, propagandist, despot
Justifying the coup he plotted and executed in the Ekiti State House of Assembly last Thursday, the same day a similar madness was unfolding in Abuja, Governor Ayo Fayose claimed the leadership of the...
View ArticleJonathan a hair’s breadth away from dictatorship
For those who think democracy is alive and well under President Goodluck Jonathan, who believe that organising elections is about the long and short of democracy, Thursday’s combined security forces’...
View ArticleTambuwal on the Buni Yadi massacre
“…On February 25, 2014, the very day the House adjourned Plenary, Nigeria suffered a horrendous terrorist attack that struck a fatal blow at the heart and soul of the nation and desecrated values that...
View ArticleSad to see Tambuwal abandon presidential race
On November 2, I suggested in this place that should Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, enter the presidential race, I would be prepared to lend him my unqualified support. when I...
View ArticleYoruba leaders’ presumptuous OAU meeting and endorsement
It is not certain why the Yoruba politicians and conservative opinion moulders who convened a Yoruba conference at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife two Fridays ago described their...
View ArticleBuhari, APC and 2015
Until Aminu Tambuwal, Speaker of the House of Representatives, dropped out of the six-horse race to pick the All Progressives Congress (APC) ticket for the presidential contest, it was hard to tell...
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