SINCE Sunday March 10, 2019, Nigerians have been in deep mourning over the death of Professor Pius Adesanmi, one of the 157 victims of the Ethiopian Airliners Boeing 737 MAX 8 which crashed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.  

THERE is a frightening amount of hate speech circulating in the Nigerian political atmosphere right now. It was barely noticeable in 2011 when former President Goodluck Jonathan made his first presidential run.

Perhaps responding to the perceived lack of inclusion in the Buhari government, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and his Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, mounted fusillades of hate speeches over his pirate Radio Biafra, calling Nigeria a “zoo”, insulting some ethnic groups and calling for Biafran independence.

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, had announced the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and incumbent President, Muhammadu Buhari, as winner with 15,191,847, defeating 72 other candidates, while Atiku scored 11,262,978 votes.

BARRING any last-minute force majeure that might come from the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC(which has formed the habit of postponing major elections), all is set for the Governorship and State Houses of Assembly polls.