Vote-Buying taken to the limits
WE are almost impelled to start today’s piece on the hypothesis that money is the sole determinant of electoral outcomes in Nigeria. In every election, the two major political parties spend big and win big while the small parties spend virtually nothing and win virtually nothing.
Even cheating on yourself?
AS morning shows the day, it has virtually become the tradition of this column to review its injunctions to elected officials at the beginning of each new government.
Governors: Live and let die
IN the early 1970s a movie by our chosen title of today “Leben und sterben lassen” ran on German cinemas for a very long time. Apparently, our governors have a big problem in their hands and they think that the only solution to the problem is to create bigger problems; problems that would consume not only themselves, but also the entire nation.
Wrong-footing the legislature
IN a constitutional order, government stands on a tripod and governmental powers are shared among several independent but inter-related branches: in a broad sense, while the legislature makes policies, such policies are implemented by the executive and the judiciary steps in to interpret any question arising from the policies or from the Constitution.
When voters are apathetic
HAVE you ever been embarrassed beyond measure? Don’t ever pray for it. That is exactly what happens when you invite say 500 people to a party and only about 50 reluctantly turn up.
The house Oshiomhole built
MOST of the new governments in Nigeria have taken off once more on rather shaky grounds. We do not envy them, particularly with the myriads of problems and their inherited defaults from preceding administrations.
