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

MANY had probably anticipated that the last National Council of State meeting would have a lot to proffer by way of remedies to the breakdown in the country’s security arrangement. Sadly, that was not to be.

POLITICS is a process of social or political engineering that is all about horse-trading, give and take, disagreement and compromise.

IN the end, the convention of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the election of its officers into various positions of the party was hinged on a so-called Unity List that may yet turn out to be a document of infamy. The auguries that emanate from the horse-trading that went into the drawing up of that document and its eventual outcome should be disturbing to Nigerians who are discerning.

By Rotimi Fasan WHEN last week I wrote in this space that Nigeria is in trouble, it was not so much an indictment of the Muhammadu Buhari-led government as some might think as it was a call for the government of the day and the rest of us Nigerians to own and acknowledge the crisis […]