Perspectives

A chance to consolidate, By Ebenezer Obadare

The just concluded Nigerian election will not pass the test of purity. It was marked by numerous irregularities, including the late arrival of polling material at polling stations, frustrating technical hitches, and scattered incidents of violence, among them numerous cases of voter intimidation by party agents and random miscreants. Evidence suggests that these logistical hiccups and scattered acts of lawlessness…

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FOR THE RECORDS: Tinubu’s acceptance speech on his election victory

“THE ERA OF RENEWED HOPE“By The President-Electof the Federal Republic of Nigeria,Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, March 1, 2023 My fellow Nigerians, I am profoundly humbled that you have elected me to serve as the 16th president of our beloved republic. This is a shining moment in the life of any man and affirmation of our democratic existence. From my heart,…

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Nigerians stay awake! Obasanjo and ‘owners of Nigeria’ plotting another June 12, By Louis Odion

One read with bewilderment, even a sense of dark foreboding, the statement by former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday calling for the cancellation“of all elections that do not pass the credibility and transparency test” during the Saturday (February 25) presidential elections. We have always known Chief Obasanjo to harbour anti-democratic proclivities. But never did one anticipate this effrontery, this in-your-face…

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Of Obasanjo, the Jesus of Owu, and Apostle Peter Fayose, By Bamidele Johnson

The reactions of Obasanjo and Fayose to Saturday’s presidential election outcomes are nothing short of hilarious. Surprising, they are not. They both are typical of the Nigerian politician or Nigerians, even. When a shitty process, as we had on Saturday, delivers an outcome in alignment with our expectations, it is marvellous. When it does not, it is the worst thing…

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What is democracy? By Temitope Ajayi

Except democracy is no longer about the majority, the tiny minority alleging rigging of this election will be able to impose their will on the rest of us. But if democracy is about the will of the majority as expressed by the ballot, then Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has won the presidential election in a free and fair process with the…

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2023: Teacher Obasanjo wants to teach us nonsense, By Ismail Omipidan

“These elections have not lived up to the hopes and expectations of the Nigerian people and the process cannot be considered to have been credible.” The above quote from Chief EU observer Max van den Berg, in 2007, summed up the outcome of the 2007 presidential election supervised by former President Olusegun Obasanjo as the country’s President. After May 29…

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Proudly Arewa, By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir

“We are Northern Nigerians. We are proud of our humble origins and remarkable history. We are the children of Sir. Ahmadu Bello Sardauna, Sir. Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Sir. Kashim Ibrahim, Aminu Kano, J S Tarka, Shettima Ali Monguno, and Ibrahim Imam. We pray for the souls of Brig. Zakari Maimalari, Brig. Sam Ademulegun, Col. Yakubu Pam, Col. Kur Mohammed, Gen.…

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Heavens embrace Tinubu at polling stations, By Kunle Awosiyan

When he arrived Kafi Street, Alausa Ikeja on Saturday morning, the weather suddenly changed. We thought it would rain because the sky unexpectedly appeared cloudy as he walked from Sunday Adigun Street, his mother’s house, towards his own unit to cast his vote. It was so rowdy that I had to climb to peep through the numerous camera lenses to…

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Wining the presidency: The path to victory! By Temitope Ajayi

They took a flight of fancy hoping to win the presidency of Nigeria with Igbo votes in Lagos. Such grand delusion. You can’t win a presidential election in Nigeria just because you think harvesting the anger of few hate-propelled young people, including sexual deviants and luminaries of the cybercrime community, who congregated at Lekki Toll gate, in a choreographed exhibition…

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Ballot prophets. Merchants of violence, By Jiti Ogunye

Forty-four years ago, in the run-up to the 1979 Presidential Election, a Professor Godspower Oyewole, then a renowned psychic, predicted that the name of the destined winner of the election was in the Bible. Many supporters of the Unity Party of Nigeria ( UPN ) and of the Nigerian Peoples Party ( NPP ) were happy and expectant. Awo was…

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