After its calamitous trouncing in the Edo State governorship election two months ago, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP could be headed towards death if it fails to revive itself in today’s governorship election in Ondo State. However, having repeated the same mistakes it did in Edo State, the prospects of the PDP cashing in on […]

John Wayne’s words that “a man is only as good as his word” shine through in the political appraisal of the person and politics of Dr Doyin Okupe. Okupe burst into the political limelight as one of the leading lights of the defunct National Republican Convention, NRC in the late nineties. His seemingly conservative inclination […]

Two major developments this week suggest that Nigeria’s democracy may not have been totally forsaken as some critics had lately implied. The first on Wednesday was the war of words between the minister of works, Senator David Umahi, and the chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on FERMA, Engr.  Remi Oseni. The second ‘cheerful’ […]

For a man who warned the Igbo that they would only get bread soaked in water if they scorned him, it is a shock that President Bola Tinubu has picked one of the finest, fittest, and fondest of that race into his cabinet. The nomination of Bianca Odumegwu Ojukwu into the Bola Tinubu cabinet came […]

Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, arguably the most stoic political canvasser in Edo State since the advent of the Fourth Republic was there sitting with Senator Monday Okpebholo, the victorious candidate of the APC, the day after the contentious governorship election last September. Ize-Iyamu’s role in the emergence and victory of Okpebhelo had been partly clouded by […]