The ADC crisis, by Rotimi Fasan
The ongoing leadership crisis in the African Democratic Congress was a disaster everyone who is a Nigerian saw coming. Everyone except those bent on reaping where they had neither sown nor watered. Some members of the party in fact read the writing on the wall and gave the impression they were prepared for any eventuality. They […]
Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu and his Igbo heroes of Lagos, By Rotimi Fasan
LAGOS is once again riding the crest of national discussion as the age-long controversy about its foundation, birth and growth as Nigeria’s number one city and melting pot has been reignited. Within a space of just a week there have been at least two major claimants to the founding and or development of Lagos, aside thousands […]
What’s Obasanjo’s quarrel with democracy? By Rotimi Fasan
Until he made the front page of major news outlets again last week with his advocacy of an African-style democracy, former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, had remained in relative limbo after his attempts to rally the opposition to rise against the declaration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu as president failed to gain traction in March this year. That […]
The country is finished, they say, By Rotimi Fasan
THERE’S a new song that is fast spreading in the land. It is loud and often to be heard among a disaffected segment of the population that is increasingly synonymous with those opponents of the present All Progressives Congress, APC-led government that lost the last presidential election. Their grievance which has since morphed into an […]
From Kogi, Imo to Bayelsa, the incumbents still rule the roost, By Rotimi Fasan
In the end it was Hope Uzodimma, Usman Ododo amd Douye Diri who emerged victorious in the just-concluded governorship election in Imo, Kogi and Bayelsa states. Clearly, the governing parties in all the three states that participated in this so-called off-season elections were set for victory and eventually won. There were allegations of irregularities quite […]
Another reminder: It’s now time for governance not politics, By Rotimi Fasan
It is obvious that some Nigerians don’t see anything good about the country; they cannot bear to hear any good thing about the president and would go just to any length to show that the country is headed downhill
What Tinubu, Atiku and Obi must do after the Supreme Court judgement, By Rotimi Fasan
The opposition should should insist on an inclusive government that takes every part of the country as its constituency; the president should make deliberate effort to reach out to sections of the country that either did not vote for him or are opposed to his government
Can the Supreme Court satisfy Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi? By Rotimi Fasan
Whatever are the contents of the files, how would they impact or have impacted the outcome of that election that was held in Nigeria?
The American way is not the Peter Obi way, By Rotimi Fasan
After the matter had generated far more heat than light and was being overtaken by other events, then did Peter Obi jump into the fray with a so-called world press conference at which he sermonised about the need for the president to re-introduce himself to Nigerians.
For Atiku and Obi, when does election end and governance begin? By Rotimi Fasan
What we should be asking ourselves or should worry all of us as Nigerians is, at what point Tinubu’s opponents in the 2023 election would stop and allow him to do the bit he can as president at a time of unprecedented economic, political and security crises?
Tinubu is beginning to look and act like Buhari, By Rotimi Fasan
The conspiracy of silence around the sharing of the subsidy savings was such that neither the Federal Government nor the organised labour asked any questions of the state governors about what they have been doing with the money given their states
