By Rotimi Fasan IT would look like Nyesom Wike is finally putting the pain and anger from the Peoples Democratic Party convention behind him, given the way he has been going about commissioning housing, road and other projects embarked upon by the Rivers State government under his watch. It has been something of a tradition […]

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has been spending the last couple of few weeks fence-minding the relationship between their presidential flagbearer, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and his closest rival and challenger at the convention that produced the presidential flagbearer, Nyesom Wike.

THE consensus among Nigerians across different parts of our country today is that President Muhammadu Buhari has failed both as a leader and a two-term president. His inability to deliver on his electoral promises to secure Nigeria, making it a safe polity for life and property aside food and job security in the wake of what Nigerians then thought was the demolition job of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP-led government of Goodluck Jonathan; fight corruption and relate with the people of Nigeria without fear or favour, in regard to religion, ethnic and gender identity- all of these have conspired to undermine his claim to a favourable place in history.

ONE knew this was where we were headed; Nigerians too saw it coming, a situation where a group of bloodthirsty marauders could put a bounty on the head of the leader of the so-called giant of Africa, the most populous Black country on our planet, while threatening fire and brimstone.

LET that disaffected faction of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Osun State led by former governor Rauf Aregbesola gloat and thump its chest in self-congratulations as it might, the fact remains that the outcome of the election that saw the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ademola Nurudeen Jackson Adeleke, emerging victorious is in the main a referendum on the performance of the APC under the administration of Aregbesola.

THE parliamentary system of government is for me the most suitable for Nigeria in this present time.

WITH the party conventions over, Nigerians now know the flagbearers of the political parties and can prepare for as well as make their forecast for the 2023 election. The last hurdle of the process has apparently been scaled with candidates naming their running mates.

IT’s now more than a week since the agents of evil made their presence felt in Owo, Ondo State, where they left the traumatised people of a morning massacre that took the lives of about 50 people, all worshippers at St. Francis Catholic Church.

PERPETRATORS of the cowardly act of terror in Owo have murdered sleep and should henceforth sleep no more. Their strategy to not only violate that which we consider sacred but also strike fear in us will be met with courage and determination.

THE moment the two leading political parties in Nigeria rolled out a list of payments that aspirants to public office must make to use its platform, it was clear to Nigerians that neither ideology, character nor principles will determine the direction of the 2023 general elections.

NIGERIA’s leadership problem, diagnosed decades ago, continues to manifest in different ways under the current All Progressives Congress-led government of President Muhammadu Buhari. O yes, I recognise we are all leaders in our different roles and do not downplay the place of good followers in the success and failure of their leaders.

IN 1989 the Iranian spiritual and revolutionary leader, Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeni, issued a fatwa that was to be executed by any Muslim anywhere in the world on the Indian-born British novelist, Salman Rushdie, following the publication of his book, The Satanic Verses, which some Muslims considered blasphemous.

reality show that the All Progressives Congress, APC’s, presidential nomination process has been turned into, parcelled and handed over to every Aja and Eran, Sule and Ojo, able to afford the nomination and expression of interest forms fee, is now beyond sickening.

IN a few weeks’ time candidates of the different political parties lined up for next year’s general election would be known.

The consensus against Nigeria is failing