Obafemi Hamzat and the Lagos State future: Between electoral expediency and governing reality
By MOSHOOD OSHUNFUREWA As the 2027 general election approaches with the inexorable certainty of a tide that waits for no man, there is a familiar rhythm that plays out across the political landscape of Lagos State. The air thickens with promises, the streets swell with campaign paraphernalia, and those who hold power-or seek to-suddenly discover a […]
INEC and Buhari’s appointments
IT has been repeated in recent times that the problem with President Muhammadu Buhari appointing his supposed sister or sister-in-law, Mrs. Amina Zakari, to head the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has nothing to do with her qualifications but rather the moral burden of having his sister or sister in-law presiding over elections in which […]
When truth is turned on its head
THE word truth has been subjected to severe battering by different people over time and ages. Each see it from his own perspective but this is not supposed to be so because truth is as it were is not subjected to any form of interpretations or colouring other than what it is. It is seen by everyone in the same manner, it is constant.
APC’s two-faced Party supremacy
PARTY is supreme! Party is supreme!! Party is supreme!!!” chanted the Loyalists (as the group of pro-All Progressives Congress, APC, leadership in the House of Representatives branded themselves) in a deafening frenzy on the day they turned the House chambers into a boxing ring last June to disrupt possible announcement of the Principal Officers of the APC (Majority Party) by the Speaker, Hon. Yakubu Dogara.
Why Southeast must join this sycophancy
NIGERIA as the saying goes is a mere geographical expression. The task to turn that expression into a Nation has been seemingly lost and appears totally unrealisable. The last general elections proved this completely. Political parties were proven to be nothing better than paper tigers. When the shove came to shove, States that have supported a particular political party for 16 years dumped the party on the quick sand of tribal loyalty by as much as 97%. That to me was the end of party politics in Nigeria and the triumph of tribal loyalty.
Igbo vs Northerners: Hate and national cohesion
Polemicist and dialectical logicians tend to agree that sanctimonious rantings, verbal acrobatics, sentimental effusions constitute negative building blocks in the march to nationhood and peace. Hence, the essayist and orator Cicero (106-43 B.C.) posited that “The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices”. This is substantiated by the English playwright William Shakespeare that “A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued and neither party loser”.
