Perspectives
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Between Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola and Professor Yemi Osinbajo — by Kayode Oyedeji
They have some things in common. Both were Comissioners under the then Governor Bola Tinubu in Lagos State. They worked meritoriously under Tinubu and accepted his political leadership. The two men moved to higher callings with the support of Bola Tinibu. With the support and endorsement of Bola Tinubu, Professor Osinbajo became Nigeria’s number two man. Aregbesola, in spite of…
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Atiku Abubakar’s reckless interview on Arise TV — by Bamidele Johnson
Just finished watching the Atiku interview and anyone still seized by the idea that he will step down for any other ADC presidential aspirant might as well believe an orangutan can sit across a board and defeat a chess grandmaster. That is the level of fantasy we are dealing with. The man was forthright, but also reckless in that absent-minded…
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Amupitan: Why ADC is chasing shadows- by Sanya Oni
It is no surprise that the African Democratic Congress is insistent on the immediate resignation of the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Joash Amupitan. First, was for the ‘high crime’ of seeking to play safe over a judgment of the court which demanded that ADC’s feuding parties and INEC under the leadership of Amupitan in particular take…
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Amupitan: Why the ADC is chasing shadows — by Sanya Oni
It is no surprise that the African Democratic Congress is insistent on the immediate resignation of the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Joash Amupitan. First, was for the ‘high crime’ of seeking to play safe over a judgment of the court which demanded that ADC’s feuding parties and INEC under the leadership of Amupitan in particular take…
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I agree with Aregbesola, renewed hope is a scam — by Olabode Opeseitan
There are moments in a nation’s political theatre when a single statement achieves the rare feat of being both self indicting and historically clarifying. Rauf Aregbesola’s recent declaration at the ADC convention, that after three years President Bola Tinubu is still promising renewed hope, belongs in that category. It is a masterpiece of unintended autobiography, a confession disguised as critique.…
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The ADC legal conundrum — by Richard Akinnola
First part -Political Right from the time of Association for Better Nigeria (ABN), led by Senator Arthur Nzeribe and Abimbola Davis, any discerning person in 1993 knew that these were the people the Babangida junta was using to truncate the June 12 election. They used Justices Bassey Ikpeme and Dahiru Saleh. Then, there were floodgates of litigations, which eventually led…
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Pat Utomi: An economic buccaneer flirting with intellectualism — by Sunday Dare
Professor Pat Utomi has once again chosen to dance naked in the public square, playing to the gallery with a familiar cocktail of grandstanding and gloom. This time, he has come to dismiss the reform programme of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as “ridiculous,” “poorly structured,” and, in a flourish of intellectual overreach, a “Ponzi scheme.” At this point, the issue…
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Nollywood: Why Igbo filmmakers must step up — by Danny Nsa
If you asked me right now to name ten Nollywood directors and filmmakers of Yoruba descent, I could rattle them off like a market woman counting change. Kunle Afolayan. Kemi Adetiba. Funke Akindele. Mo Abudu. Jade Osiberu. Bolanle Austen-Peters. Kayode Kasum. The list breathes because I can name their outstanding works. But ask me about Igbo directors, I start counting…
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How Aregbesola ruined Osun State as governor — by Bayo Onanuga
My attention has been drawn to Rauf Aregbesola’s attack on the Tinubu administration at today’s illegal elective convention of the ADC—a party of desperados and power mongers who, to date, have not articulated any credible plan for Nigeria. At the event, Aregbesola reportedly called on his former boss, mentor, and benefactor to resign, parroting the opposition’s warped narratives about the…
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Yayi: The Lagos-Ogun boundary belt can wait no longer — by Bamidele Johnson
There is a certain electricity in the air when a candidacy feels less like an imposition and more like a collective choice. The emergence of Solomon Olamilekan Adeola (Yayi) as the APC governorship candidate carries that charge. It has not been greeted with the usual grumbling compliance, but has been met, in many quarters, with something closer to relief, even…
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