By Dele Sobowale “Every hero becomes a bore at last” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 90. I have had occasion in the past when I considered Governor Wike of Rivers State the hero among southern governors in the struggle for power rotation to the South. I once wrote that […]

By Dele Sobowale “Every country has the government it deserves” – Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 80 If you want to see Lai Mohammed, Chris Ngige, Adamu Adamu, Abubakar Malami, Garba Shehu, Femi Adesina, Miyetti Allah, El-Rufai etc back in high office after 2023, then vote for the All Progressives Congress, […]

“Every country has the government it deserves” – Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 80 If you want to see Lai Mohammed, Chris Ngige, Adamu Adamu, Abubakar Malami, Garba Shehu, Femi Adesina, Miyetti Allah, El-Rufai etc back in high office after 2023, then vote for the All Progressives Congress, APC, next […]

“First of all, don’t forget that there are local and global financial markets. What is their job? It is to lend money. If you don’t borrow those people are going to lose their jobs.”  Fashola  Minister of  Works and  Housing,  Report, July  31, 2022.

“The Vice President is a heartbeat away from the Presidency.” That still remains the conventional wisdom in the US despite the fact that John Adams, America’s first Vice President, once said that “the Vice Presidency is the most insignificant office ever the invention of men contrived or his imagination conceived.” Our own Dr Ezeife called him “a spare tyre”.

“I am eager to go. I can tell you, it has been tough. I am grateful to God that people appreciate the personal sacrifices we have been making. I wish the person after me the very best” – President Buhari, Monday, July 11, 2022.

Why Sanwo-Olu deserves a second term

Outgoing President as serial betrayer

By Dele Sobowale “Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, in the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side” – James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891 (VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, P 254). Nigerians voters, especially the educated and more enlightened, have never been placed in such dilemmas as we […]

By Dele Sobowale “Were it left to me whether to have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter” – Thomas Jefferson, US President, 1743-1826. All Nigerians alive today and old enough to be conscious of our predicament as a nation are beginning to […]

By Dele Sobowale “A political party deserves the approbation of [Nigerians] only as it represents the ideals, the aspirations and the hopes of [Nigerians]. If it is anything else, it is merely a conspiracy to seize power” – US President Dwight Eisenhower, 1890-1969, November 7, 1956. Is there a political party in Nigeria today called […]

In many ways, each of them is worthy of consideration by the Yoruba people. But, each time I meet a Yoruba person, female, male, young or old, and the question is asked: What do you think the Yoruba people gained from being in APC?, the answer invariably is: “Nothing”.

By Dele Sobowale “You reap what you sow.” A foreigner just arriving in Nigeria, and learning about the six zones of our political system, must assume that Yorubaland is the second most favoured zone under the All Progressives Congress, APC. A casual glance at the list of occupants of elected and appointed officials would seem to […]

By Dele Sobowale “There are two forces in the world; the sword and the pen. In the end, the pen will overcome the sword” -Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821. That was true, and is still a fact, of the civilised world. But, this is Africa, the Dark Continent; and this is Nigeria, the biggest of all dark races on […]

By Dele Sobowale  “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” When Chief David  Umahi, Governor of Ebonyi State, decamped from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on whose ticket he was elected, to the All Progressives Congress, APC, my first instinct was to denounce his lack of principles. He still stands charged; but, something about […]