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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 […]

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