Politics

APC & The North Eastern Question

We’ve come to learn of new terms and techniques from modern day Nigerian politics — place holder, statutory delegates and other features occasioned by the new electoral act controversy, have made 2023 polls one of the most keenly contested elections in our recent history. The most intriguing primary elections were held by the most powerful […]

Politics

Tricks of a grass cutter.

When you zone the Presidency to the North or to the South, you would be making sense; so would you be, if you further zone it to a segment of the North, i.e North Central or North East, or South West and South East. Federal character is embedded in our constitution and there may as […]

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When Bourdillion roared.

Over and over, I’ve heard Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu being referred to as the Lion of Bourdillion. He owns the title Jagaban, and has been the only title holder that has propelled the Jagaban title to nation wide acclaim. Jagaban means warrior leader. He was given the title by the late Emir of Borgu, his […]

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APC’s bitter but puissant pill.

Deep down, as an APC faithful, I have harbored a genuine fear of having to contend with an ‘ATIKU’, as the flagbearer of the PDP in the 2023 polls. The man is a sagacious politician, a ballot veteran and a professional linguist of the Nigerian language and mentality. Woe betide you, if you dare underestimate […]

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What the APC needs.

All glory be to God, the Lord Almighty, omnipotent, majestic, merciful and most beneficent, that the APC scaled the hurdle of the convention that naysayers had banked on; as the stage where the party would disintegrate to smithereens even before the 2023 elections — the way Nigeria’s disintegration had long been predicted by so many […]

Politics

Celebrating Kogunan Katagum at 50!

These are quite perilous times, where our political landscape is barren from leadership that truly exemplifies transparency and accountability. Integrity as a main trait, in the characters that gun for the highest office in the land, is particularly missing; and what we can hope for at the most, is a patriotic Nigerian, who has the […]