From the Editor The campaigns were intense and, for some of the candidates, very tasking. Finally, the time is near; the elections are here. The 2023 election means so many things to so many people. For some, it will determine what Nigeria means to the different nations within the country. To others, it is a…
2023: No Well-meaning Nigerian Will Vote APC, PDP – Utomi
A chieftain of the Labour Party, LP, and professor of Political Economics and Management at the Lagos Business School, Patrick Okedinachi Utomi, has cautioned Nigerians against voting in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 2023 general elections. Describing both parties as twins, Utomi contended that they are…
Placing“Placeholders” Placeless
The APC political contraption never ceases to amaze and confound me. It intrigues me to no end. This is a party (is it really one, going by the text book definition of a politcal party in Political Science?) that rose from its often predicted imminent disintegration into smithereens, like a phoenix from its ashes, in…
APC’s Oyebanji Wins Ekiti Polls
Abayomi Oyebanji, candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC has been declared winner of the Saturday June 18, governorship election in Ekiti State. He scored 187,057 votes to defeat his closest rival Segun Oni, a former governor of the state who ran on the platform of the Social Democratic Party, SDP who scored 82,211 votes…
APC Chairman Announces Senate President Lawan as Party’s Consensus Candidate
The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC shocked the nation with the announcement of Ahmed Lawan, Senate President as the consensus candidate of the party for the forthcoming presidential election. Abdullah Adamu, national chairman of the APC made the announcement on Monday. The announcement came hours ahead of the presidential primaries of the party scheduled to…
Primaries: INEC’s Six-Day Extension Gives Advantage to APC
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Friday extended the deadline for party primaries by six days, from 4 to 9 June. This gives considerable advantage to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, over the opposition People’s Democratic Party, PDP, for last minute manoeuvres in the selection of their presidential flag bearer. That, however, is provided…
APC’s 2023 Dark Horse
(Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 2 May, 2022) So, who is the favourite? First, they said Goodluck Jonathan was the chosen one. Indeed, his boys and girls were already sharing the 2023-2027 posts and spoils. Now, I ask, is he still the one that is coming? No one appears sure again as they…
Goodluck Jonathan Constitutionally Qualified to Run for Presidency
Introduction Nigeria is a country of one major news item per day. At times, one scandal per day. The hot issue in the polity currently generating national ruckus, hoopla, and bedlam is the presumed intention of Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to run for the 2023 presidency. It does not matter that he has never himself…
Umahi and The Wages of Harlotry
(Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday 14 March, 2022) “Thieves of a feather” is the title of a piece written by American journalist, Emily Sohn in the December 19, 2007 edition of ScienceNewsforStudents. Great writings advertise themselves first with great titles. You were probably suckled in a cliched world where birds of a feather…
