VP Kashim Shettima’s near miss, by Ochereome Nnanna
For nearly two months, our amiable Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima (GCON), held his breath. His principal, President Bola Tinubu, had emerged as the sole candidate for the presidential ticket of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on 25th May, 2026, scoring 10.9 million votes during the party’s nationwide direct primaries. Tinubu chose to keep his […]
Leave tenure matters alone
IT is a long-established fact that those at the helm of affairs in Nigeria are simply incapable of learning the lessons of both recent and distant history of our country.
June 12 died, power shifted
ALHAJI Bashir Othman Tofa, remember him? How can you forget? He was the presidential candidate of the National Republican Convention, NRC, who lost the June 12, 1993 presidential election to the candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, Chief Moshood Abiola. He was the first Northerner to lose a presidential election to a Southerner, even though the election was not a regional battle.
Buhari’s rare romance with hypocrisy
WE all have our faults and virtues. General Muhammadu Buhari is a man whose virtues and vices are well known.
Atiku is right, Anenih wrong
ALHAJI Atiku Abubakar and Chief Tony Anenih are one of a kind. They were launched onto the centre stage of Nigeria’s politics by, arguably, the most undesirable political machine ever to be formed in the history of this nation – the late Major General Yar’ Adua’s People’s Front of Nigeria, PFN, which later renamed itself the People’s Democratic Movement, PDM.
Amaechi’s rebel war
WHAT started like a rumour is now a confirmed conflict. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, the Governor of Rivers State and President of Nigeria, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, who hails from nearby BayelsaState, are locked in an “exhibition” fight towards the 2015 election year.
