A man fighting for his life, or a political party fighting for survival are in no position to fight for anything else. The All Progressives Congress, APC, and its leaders are fighting for dear lives. The last thing they will pursue between now and Election Day 2019 is restructuring.

To Jonathan, I openly apologise. To Nigerians, I prostrate full length. I fully subscribe to OBJ’s dictum. I will not reinforce failure. Never

Usually they come as emancipators of their people from oppression – real and imagined. They end up visiting worse atrocities on their people than the colonialists ever did

The major advantages of an incumbent seeking second term include access to state funds for campaign, recognition by the electorate, support by the DSS and Police Commissioners posted to the state and the Independent National Electoral Officers, INEC, posted to the state

The problem with praise-singers, especially when they multiply like viruses, is that they induce in political leaders a sense of infallibility

The All Progressives Congress is in a fix. Buhari is its only candidate – with all the liabilities he will bring into the contest. Failure to field Buhari amounts to removing the “glue” and “everyone will find his way to his home”

Buhari, appointing people based on sentiments rather than competence, planned the seeds of failure and fraud even as he sent in the first budget in 2016 to kick-start the SIP

After trying to be president three  times and failing, Buhari must be wondering now whether it would not have been better to have lost again and leave Nigerians dreaming of the wonders he would have performed.

As a minimum, Nigerians must be told who will be the beneficiaries of these programmes, how they were selected, where they can be located in order to verify the claims by government about performance later. Those claiming to fight corruption must be prepared to be totally open

“Buhari reinstates NHIS boss under probe for alleged N919m fraud.”