APC, running mate and options for 2015
The All Progressives Congress (APC) is about to discover that deciding on Gen Muhammadu Buhari’s running mate is much tougher than electing their standard-bearer. It is not simply because that choice,...
View Article2015: finally, the battle is joined
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had no reason to contrive the mournful convention it had in Abuja last week on the same day the All Progressives Congress (APC) held its feisty and evocative...
View Article2015: APC’ll probably win, if…
Elections have their metaphysical contents and attributes which enable pundits and analysts to smartly predict their outcomes as well as decipher their transcendental messages. When an election is...
View ArticleKenya’s retrogressive anti-terror law
Buffeted by relentless Al Shabab terrorist attacks, Kenya has passed a controversial anti-terror law permitting the incarceration of terror suspects for up to one year instead of the previous 90 days...
View ArticleLeadership recruitment: APC needs to proceed cautiously
A few months back, many Nigerians, including this columnist and even All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders, probably never imagined that the main opposition party would rise to its present stature,...
View ArticlePDP, APC and abusive election
“Never was ability so much below mediocrity so well rewarded, not, not even when Caligula’s horse was made a consul,” said John Randolph on Richard Rush in the early days of the United States Congress....
View ArticleOkonjo-Iweala’s characteristic understatement
For those determined to vote for President Goodluck Jonathan a second time, let them take counsel from the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy (CME), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala,...
View Article2015: Can ‘paradise’ be regained?
Given Nigeria’s precipitous and barbarous descent into near anarchy and mediocrity, especially from the 1980s onward, it is difficult and painful to remember that Nigeria was not always the social and...
View ArticleDynamics of APC, PDP presidential campaigns
Barely one week into their presidential campaigns, the leading contenders for the presidency, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC), have given indications of the...
View ArticleAPC and the Chibok factor
It is hard to imagine whether in any polity a president can win re-election fairly and transparently with a baggage like the Chibok abductions, no, not even in Africa. By the time the presidential...
View ArticleThat farcical pact between Jonathan and Buhari
Hearing President Goodluck Jonathan declaim upon the higher virtues of electoral rectitude at the Abuja workshop where he and APC candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, signed a covenant to keep the peace during...
View ArticlePresidential poll: it’s a question of character
If Nigeria fails once again to elect the right man as president, it will be because the country has focused on the wrong priorities. So far, as the campaigns for the polls intensify, Nigerians are...
View ArticlePostponing Poll 2015?
There are indications elements within the Goodluck Jonathan government might be disposed to the postponement of next month’s polls . They fear that given the current momentum in favour of the...
View ArticleBuhari momentum surges towards coronation
There is not one unbiased analyst who does not expect that as things stand in the 2015 electioneering, the APC candidate, Gen Buhari, would be crowned on February 14. The tide began to turn in favour...
View ArticleIs Ekiti not embarrassed by Fayose?
Last week, Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State authored perhaps the most offensive newspaper front page advert ever, wherein he asserted with all the sham religiosity his dark heart could muster that...
View ArticleAfenifere crosses the endorsement Rubicon
Afenifere, inappropriately described as the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, has reportedly endorsed President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for a second term. Whether...
View ArticlePalladium’s endorsement: Voting Jonathan will doom democracy
In 2011, this column endorsed Nuhu Ribadu for the presidency though it admitted he could not win; believed Muhammadu Buhari was best placed to impose meaningful, even if not modern, rule on Nigeria;...
View ArticleDasuki, poll date stability and overbearing military
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo warned in far away Kenya that the military should not contemplate a coup d’etat on account of the crises hamstringing Nigeria. He is not the only one to warn against...
View ArticleAnother revelatory media chat
For those still enamoured of the candidacy of President Goodluck Jonathan, whose support for him rests principally on their hatred for leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC), I offer them the...
View ArticleThe six-week Boko Haram war
President Goodluck Jonathan promised a six-week war against the Boko Haram sect to finish them off. Notwithstanding widespread doubts about the feasibility of ending the war at such a short duration,...
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