THE widespread aversion, in some quarters, to incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election bid is as shocking as it is baffling. It beats the imagination that in less than four years, a president that once enjoyed overwhelming goodwill across the country,when he officially assumed duty as the Chief Executive Officer, could have incurred the wrath of large swathes of the population who now resent, deride and despise him to the extent of literally calling for his ejection from the Olympus height he currently occupies.

AS Nigeria looks forward to the February 16 presidential election, one nagging question I have encountered from many Nigerians who have accepted that we live under a dictatorship has been: “will Buhari leave power if defeated?”

THERE are so many frightening points in former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s explosive release on the state of our country on Sunday, with the scariest being the virtual return to the days of the evil ruler, Gen. Sani Abacha.

IF the question were asked about the greatest danger that ever befell democratic governance in the history of Nigeria, the answer obviously will be the All Progressives Congress, APC.

MRS. Amina Zakari, the controversial National Commissioner at the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, whose name raises the blood pressure of opposition politicians in Nigeria today is an employer’s delight .But like the bat whose only affliction is that the arms are longer than the legs, her major drawback is that she does more than a day’s work for a day’s pay.

THERE is a saying in my corner of Nigeria that accidental fire does not burn somebody twice. But I think that proverb does not capture the fact that not all human beings are wise and therefore there are scumbags who can suffer burn over and over again from the same source.

A WEEK after he became a stutterer (why we we we where where are here )at the Vice-Presidential debate in Abuja as a result of ‘running’ in Lai’s lane,VP Yemi Osinbajo was at the palace of the Alafin of Oyo last weekend to shred whatever vestige of credibility he has left for crass political opportunism.

WITHOUT the 71 lawmakers who tabled a motion for Nigeria to return to the parliamentary option last week, our four years of “change” would have passed without any proposal to change anything from all the things that have brought us to where we are today as a country.

SHORTLY after I started work as General Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman in 2011, Mrs. Aisha Buhari approached me to facilitate some media exposure for her. She didn’t need to spend time to convince me that we needed her face and voice out there.

IT’s a funny season for the foxes Nigeria is afflicted with as leading politicians spin yawns that do not correspond to the pathetic reality in our ground zero. The country’s economic and political scene is wobbling on perdition lane.

‘IF both sides were satisfied with the outcome, the rest of the girls who wanted to come home would be swapped in a second exchange in return for two million Euro and five imprisoned Boko Haram commanders.

THE bloodiest attack ever by the “degraded” Boko Haram terror group against our military took place on Monday, November 19, 2018. The evil sect stormed a military base in Metele village, Guzamala Local Government Area of Borno State and left in their trail sorrow, tears and blood.

I refer you to a publication on page 34 of the November 12, 2018 edition of the Vanguard, in which one Awonuga Olajide Williams, in a highly combative piece titled The Pathetic Delusion of Yinka Odumakin, launched a scathing blitzkrieg on your person.

IT’S been three years since Papa Awolowo’s “Jewel of inestimable value”,Mama HID Awolowo joined the Saints Triumphant on the eve of her centenary and  now we are a few days away from the anniversary of the interment of what was mortal of her.

“We have to take an interest in the quality of our leaders and representatives in the level of education. If you look around this country at many levels of leadership, we have elected and we have chosen to elect people who do not have education. And because they are not educated, they cannot give education.”