Perspectives
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Finally, tomorrow comes, By Bolaji Adebiyi
Without a doubt, this is the longest electioneering in the electoral history of Nigeria. The politicians entered the fray in early 2022, with Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, for instance, announcing his aspiration on 10 January after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari. But it was between May and early June of that year that…
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I saw the old NNPC die
I was witness to history on Friday last week. I’d been invited to attend what was called NNPC Cutover Ceremony at the corporate head office of the burgeoning National Energy Company in Abuja, Federal Capital Territory. What did the event mean, in simple English. NNPC was completing its transmutation from a Corporation to a Limited Company, as required by the…
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Presidential election: We will vote APC, we will win, By Is’haq Moddibo Kawu
I arrived in Ilorin on Monday evening because of a most tragic family death, that’s shocked our entire community. My original plan was to arrive a few days before we go to the polls; but the passing of Her Worship Mariam Kawu-Said hastened my return to Ilorin. This tragedy enveloped us all but the community was also bursting at the…
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Nigeria’s election and the pollster’s albatross, By Azu Ishiekwene
With all the predictions of Armageddon and doubt about whether Saturday’s presidential and national assembly polls would hold it does sound a bit silly to contemplate life after. Even those who grudgingly concede a life after fear it might be worse. Optimism is like playing the Ostrich. Nigeria’s history of electoral violence in the sixties and even in the mid-nineties…
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Emilokan, vigorous campaign and the coming victory, By Tunde Rahman
By the time the results of Saturday’s presidential election are announced and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is declared the winner, as expected, his victory will leave no one in doubt because it will be a well deserved victory. In this election, Asíwájú Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, offers by far the most well thought-out, comprehensive and realistic…
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To my compatriots: Why I seek your mandate to be president of Nigeria, By Asiwaju Bola Tinubu
Fellow Nigerians, it is with a tremendous sense of history and an immense awareness of the challenges ahead of us as a country that I address you today. For the past few months, my running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima and I and other leaders of our great party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) have traversed the length and breadth of…
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Tinubu and the North: Always as friends, By Abdulaziz Abdulaziz
At the palace of the Shehu of Borno on Saturday, the Borno State governor, Professor Babagana Zulum said something brief but profound. He was introducing the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to the revered monarch. Tinubu, Zulum said, had been there for Borno and its people at the most difficult times of its 1,200-year history. When many people…
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On the tone of campaigns, By Kayode Komolafe
As the presidential campaigns end tomorrow midnight, a lot of what has happened on the hustings and the public sphere in the last five months ought to be scrutinised. This is irrespective of what would be the result of balloting on Saturday. Although this may appear to be a theoretical luxury given the ferment in the land towards the elections,…
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Again, a Lagos original, By Sam Omatseye
He is rich. He is powerful. He has influence. He has changed lives. He transformed a city. Made men and women. Yet he attracts quite a few adversaries. The scriptures say when Isaac roared into success, the Philistines envied him. They deny him the right to be human. When he is sick, some wish him dead or eternally crippled. When…
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2023: It’s about trust, promise keeping, By Ismail Omipidan
As a reporter in Kaduna in 2011, I escaped being attacked by a mere whiskers. But not many Yoruba were that lucky. Our sin was that the average Hausa person rightly or wrongly believed then that the refusal of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to team up with President Muhammadu Buhari, who was the candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change,…
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