Perspectives
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For PMB, it’s Nigeria and nothing else
In some other lands and climes, elections are held on weekdays, in which people cast their votes, and proceed to the office, or other places of endeavor. But here, we must first die many times before our death, when elections approach. Many are the doomsday scenarios painted, that we do not know whether to stay in the country, or show…
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A Nigeria that works for all, By Fredrick Nwabufo
The place of leadership in forging bonds of communality is the place of purpose and deliberateness. The leadership must be very deliberate in managing diversity and in fostering kinship among variegated people. Nation building cannot be left to chance or to the whim of anyone. There must be purposive plans and actions towards uniting the people. We cannot play possum…
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Our men of dog, By Bamidele Johnson
Strong chance that I’m infected with rabid skepticism where Nigerian prophets and prophecies are concerned. In the event the unscientific self-diagnosis is confirmed, I’m unwilling to seek a cure from orthodox medical guys, trado-medical experts, shamans or spiritual healers of other hues. My unwillingness, long-standing, is hard, stiff and solid like a brick, with more than a little help from…
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Asiwaju is here, so are we! By Dare Babarinsa
History was made yesterday morning when Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the former Governor of Lagos State, was declared the President-elect of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The coalition he husbanded so meticulously in 2014 has endured and produced its second President within eight years. Despite the predictions of chaos and violent divorce that haunted the recent campaign, President Muhammadu Buhari of…
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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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