Why President Bola Tinubu’s yea should be yea, by Rotimi Fasan
I think it is legitimate to ask if the controversy that trailed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s so-called working vacation was inevitable. I personally don’t think so. The problem was as much with the message as it was with the messaging. This takes us back to the observation frequently made by critics of the president’s media […]
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 […]
