When adult petulance becomes a campaign strategy, by Rotimi Fasan
Considering the reaction of the main opposition parties’ leaders to the Independence Day speech of President Bola Tinubu, I think I’m beginning to see the lineaments of the campaign for the 2027 general election. The shape the campaigns would take is getting clear. This is why I’m returning once again to a theme I have […]
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 […]
