The presentation of the 2020 budget proposals to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday was another opportunity for Nigerians to appreciate the workings of a democracy.

The presentation of the 2020 budget proposals to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday was another opportunity for Nigerians to appreciate the workings of a democracy.

A very senior chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC recently but privately confessed that one of the greatest mistakes Nigeria made was not conceding the third term to Dr. Olusegun Obasanjo.

It was on the sidelines of his first outing with the Lagos press as minister of information in the fourth quarter of 2015, that Alhaji Lai Mohammed said that President Muhammadu Buhari was looking for the first minister to send to jail!

It was easy for those critics presidency officials describe as mischief makers and naysayers to taunt Prof. Yemi Osinbajo over his perceived demotion in the affairs of the Muhammadu Buhari presidency.

It was easy for those critics presidency officials describe as mischief makers and naysayers to taunt Prof. Yemi Osinbajo over his perceived demotion in the affairs of the Muhammadu Buhari presidency.

New questions as to the intentions of Governor Nyesom Wike came to the fore after three bristling utterances from him between Wednesday and Thursday.

While many Nigerians are justifiably taking umbrage at the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians by socially and ideologically benighted black South Africans, it is easy to overlook the root causes of the issue.

If Lagosians living in the Badagry axis of Lagos State were the ones, who initiated the probe of Mr Akinwunmi Ambode’s purchase of 820 buses, it would have been seen for what it is.

Mr Femi Adesina’s famed proclivity towards President Muhammadu Buhari political philosophy was evident last Wednesday at the inauguration of the country’s 44-man cabinet. Central to that viewpoint is that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP as an entity fouled Nigeria’s democratic space in the 16 years it held power.

The rabidly passionate Buhari Media Organisation which does not spare insults in its defence of President Muhammadu Buhari was particularly confused. How to react to President Obasanjo’s recent troubleshooting among Yoruba and Fulani leaders in the Southwest was an issue.

Undoubtedly, one of the low points for your correspondent during the just concluded screening or better, serenading of ministerial nominees, was the point when Senator Orji Uzor Kalu intervened to cover the oral delivery deficiencies of the nominee from Taraba State, Saleh Mohammed.

The highpoint of the ministerial screening as at Thursday for your correspondent was the point Senator Uche Ekwunife rose to address the nominee from Nassarwa State.

President Muhammadu Buhari last week cited the need to get people personally known to him as the reason for his dithering procrastination in naming his ministers.

Given the kind of theatrics that come with political campaigns, it was not surprising that some mischief-makers in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, used the name of the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to mock the opposition during the recent campaigns.