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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.
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To Jonathan, I openly apologise. To Nigerians, I prostrate full length. I fully subscribe to OBJ’s dictum. I will not reinforce failure. Never
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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
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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
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The problem with praise-singers, especially when they multiply like viruses, is that they induce in political leaders a sense of infallibility
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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”
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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
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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.
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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
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“Buhari reinstates NHIS boss under probe for alleged N919m fraud.”
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Under Obasanjo, they [PDP] served a leader who was light years ahead of them in deceit and duplicity.” His new movement will eventually show OBJ in his true colours
Read More By contrast, we have other leaders, even Northern leaders, who have exhibited the flexibility of mind-set required to rule a multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-interest country like Nigeria. They are also younger, better educated and more respectful of the rights of all Nigeria’s ethnic groups
Read More But, something interesting occurred two months after the Enugu and Agatu mass murders. Five herdsmen were reported missing in one of the Southeast states. Suddenly, security forces swamped the area in search of the missing herdsmen; villagers were interrogated and some detained briefly. The difference is clear
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After four days of going round Agatu communities, interviewing the people as well as traditional rulers, we made an observation which was ignored by everybody including the President, governor and all the security agencies which are now running around trying to find a lasting solution to the problem
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Buhari suffers from four forms of bigotry which old age and his elevation to the highest office in the land have not erased. They are ethnic, regional, religious and gender
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