A fight to the finish in Osun, by Rotimi Fasan
In concluding my piece here two weeks ago on the Osun State governorship election that is scheduled to hold on Saturday this week, I had suggested that Governor Ademola Nurudeen Jackson Adeleke had successfully skirted around the political landmine represented by the federal might that could have been deployed against him to threaten his chances in […]
Where is Hudu Ari running to?
By Rotimi Fasan THE Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Adamawa State, Mr. Hudu Ari, seems to have far less sense than one would expect of a man of his status and age. After his misadventure of usurping the constitutional duty of the Returning Officer, Mele Lamido, on April […]
Peter Obi, his supporters and Wole Soyinka
By Rotimi Fasan PETER Obi is in most part hardly different from most Nigerian politicians in terms of their capacity for mischief. Any careful student of his politics will see that he is something of a demagogue which aligns with the fascist tendencies of his obdurate supporters. At a time, last week, when it seemed […]
Peter Obi and his supporters
By Rotimi Fasan THERE is something gravely dangerous about the way the Labour Party, LP, candidate in the 2023 presidential election, Mr. Peter Obi, and his supporters, especially his misnamed Obidients base, have gone about their campaign for Nigeria to reconsider the outcome of the presidential election that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had […]
An interim government?
By Rotimi Fasan MORE than a month after the 2023 presidential election and three weeks after the governorship election, the dust raised from the elections is yet to settle. It has been a case of one week one trouble as the country reels from one controversy to another. Just over a week ago, the Department […]
Identitarian anxieties and the 2023 elections
By Rotimi Fasan CRITICS of the 2023 general election have harped on the failure of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to transmit the results of the election in real time as one of its major challenges. There were also scattered incidences of ballot snatching, electoral violence and sundry malfeasance. But very significantly none of […]
The 2023 elections in Nigeria’s electoral history
By Rotimi Fasan THE February 25 and March 18 elections are now a matter of history. They have come and gone but many people are still too emotionally wounded to take anything but a jaundiced view of the outcome of the elections and what the gains of the elections rather than the failures, which are […]
It’s been a loud silence from Buhari
By Rotimi Fasan BY the time you’re reading this, it would have been two full weeks, almost, to the day the Supreme Court overturned the orders of President Muhammadu Buhari, through the Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele, delegitimising the use of the old N1000, N500 and N200 notes as legal tenders. Since that decision of […]
What can we learn from the 2023 presidential election?
By Rotimi Fasan UNBIASED observers of developments leading to the February 25 elections would find it hard not to agree with supporters of Bola Tinubu, the declared winner, that President Muhammadu Buhari had something against him even if they wouldn’t go as far as saying that the policy that resulted in the seizure of money […]
A look back to the presidential elections
By Rotimi Fasan I HAD in respect of the February 25 elections made the point that all might go well on election day with the real crunch coming when the elections are over. The criticisms that have trailed the elections should tell us that the courts might be the next destination of quite a few […]
An election like no other?
By Rotimi Fasan AS you read this, it’s exactly three days to the 2023 presidential election. This would be one of the most consequential elections in recent memory, and despite the feeling that it is unprecedented in terms of its potential to falter, there is a whole sense of deja vu about it. There is […]
Does the president need another week to end our drought?
By Rotimi Fasan IT’s already midweek as you read this. Dare we hope that the week can yet end on a happy note for Nigerians? The first two days of the week had not been different from the previous week of contrived trouble, when Nigerians were railroaded into the strange business of trading in their […]
Tinubu and the Fulani agenda
By Rotimi Fasan THE contrived cash crunch that has compounded the chaos created by the most prolonged energy crisis in the recent history of Nigeria has continued to torment most Nigerians. It has caused further confusion in their lives and dragged the country’s parlous economy further into the woods. With just two weeks until what […]
Buhari’s and Emefiele’s last game
By Rotimi Fasan IT would be interesting to know what finally happened to convince Godwin Emefiele, the Central Bank governor, that it was time to reconsider his single-minded pursuit of the January 31 deadline for the withdrawal of old naira bills from circulation. Shortly after the change in decision was announced, cheeky Nigerians circulated a […]
Tinubu, his Fulani allies and next month’s election
By Rotimi Fasan TODAY makes it exactly a month to the day Nigerians will go to the polls to elect their next president. The presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is one of the three leading contenders to the coveted office. In the ordinary opinion of many and as […]
CBN and remaking of the Naira
By Rotimi Fasan WHEN the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, took the decision to redesign the naira, it had a few objectives to achieve. Even if many Nigerians now believe what the CBN has done is merely change the colours of the notes that are now thought to be qualitatively inferior to the old notes, […]
