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Dino Melaye has mocked the ruling party, APC, over the reported crisis rocking the party over its presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, a Muslim, picking former governor of Borno state, Kashim Shettima, another Muslim as his running mate. In a video he posted on Instagram, Dino who couldn’t contain his laughter, claimed APC is now scattered and […]
Continue ReadingThe ruckus that has been generated by the announcement of former Borno State Governor, Senator Kashim Shettima as running mate of the Presidential standard bearer of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), for the 2023 Presidential election is a perfect illustration and yet another sharp reminder of how religion has driven a wedge among Nigerians. […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, I know you must be wondering what the business of a former PDP Presidential aspirant is with the APC Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. My response is not far-fetched. Everyone knows that we go way back. We were friends and Brothers, ever before we became comrades-in-the-struggle in the heady days of the […]
Continue ReadingThe social media, where most political debates take place these days and where brickbats are exchanged between protagonists and antagonists per nanosecond, has caught fire again with reports that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), told the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that he did not attend a […]
Continue ReadingOne of Nigeria’s political parties, the Action Peoples Party (APP) may on Monday drag the Presidential candidate of All Progressive Congress (APC) Bola Ahmed Tinubu to court to challenge his academic qualification to stand for the 2023 election. APP’s decision followed alleged irregularities in the academic qualification and documents submitted by Tinubu to Independent National […]
Continue ReadingConvener of a non-profit group, Concerned Nigerians and popular socio-political commentator based in Abuja, Nigeria, Mr. Deji Adeyanju, has predicted that the All Progressives Congress (APC), will win the 2023 presidential election. Adeyanju made this known in a tweet on his Twitter handle on Monday. According to the activist, the ruling party will emerge winner […]
Continue ReadingFor a long time, Nigeria has bandied around what has amounted to a myth that whoever seeks the presidency hardly gets it. Historical observers have variously posited that what we have almost always had are “accidental” presidents—men reluctant to step out for leadership roles but who somehow, through whimsical engineering of fate, find the presidency […]
Continue ReadingDisappointment was powdered on the faces of many of the young people around me when Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo did not win the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC). To them, Osinbajo was one candidate they could connect with: articulate, urbane, agile and modern. One who is connected to the ordinary Nigerian — he […]
Continue ReadingNigerian singer, songwriter, television presenter, publisher, producer and activist, Charles Oputa popularly known as Charly Boy has said he will leave Nigeria if the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar or the All Progressives Congress (APC), candidate, Bola Tinubu emerges winner of the 2023 general election. Tinubu polled a total of 1,271 votes […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, who won the party’s ticket with 1,271 votes, says his opponents have nothing to fear after his victory at the party’s primary. Tinubu said this while giving his victory speech at Eagle Square, the venue of the APC primary. Tinubu, also the National Leader of […]
Continue ReadingFormer governor of Lagos State and National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has emerged as the winner of the party’s presidential primary. Tinubu has obtained over 1,000 votes to defeat his closest rivals in the APC primary election, Rotimi Amaechi and Yemi Osinbajo. While Amaechi polled 316 votes, Osinbajo scored […]
Continue ReadingIn Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s unusually acerbic and desperate political speech in Ogun State on Thursday, he dropped four unmistakably broad hints that he will transition to secessionist Yoruba nationalism should the All Progressives Congress (APC) deny him its ticket, especially if this is done through the circumvention of the established protocols for choosing a party […]
Continue ReadingIn a statement made in Abuja on Monday, the Nigerian Presidency has said that no one could or should claim to have single-handedly engineered the emergence of Muhammadu Buhari as President in the 2015 general elections. The Senior Special Assistant to the President, Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said the past should not decide the […]
Continue ReadingThe war of the First Republic had reached a feverish height. Those it consumed were wheeled to the sepulchre by the day. The blood of the political party faithful painted the sky crimson. According to Femi Kehinde, a former member of the House of Representatives and biographer of the last premier of the Western Region, […]
Continue ReadingNigerian singer, songwriter, television presenter, publisher, producer and activist, Charles Oputa popularly known as Charly Boy the Areafada1 took to his Twitter handle to tackle former Lagos state governor and APC Presidential aspirant, Bola Tinubu, who last week boasted that he put President Buhari in power after he went on TV to weep for losing […]
Continue ReadingFormer APC member who represented the Kiru/Bebeji Federal Constituency of Kano State and Director-General of the Tinubu Support Group, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has dumped the All Progressives Congress (APC). He announced this via his Twitter handle on Saturday. The former federal lawmaker said he would announce his new party soon. “I have done my best for APC. It’s […]
Continue ReadingThe most appropriate representation of the impending 2023 presidential election contest for the Yoruba is what is called the Odun e’gun or the Egungun Festival contest. It is a festival-cum-contest in which masquerades file out in their rainbow coloured regalia, with a mammoth crowd gathered to watch them dance. As at today, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Yemi Osinbajo […]
Continue ReadingTo begin with, it is not at all clear that the presidential election of February 2023 will hold as scheduled.This, in a manner of speaking, is a restatement of the ecclesiastical revelation of Pastor Enoch Adeboye to the effect that God has not told him that there will be a presidential election in Nigeria next […]
Continue ReadingNational Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and a presidential aspirant, Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday, sympathised with the families of the victims of an Abuja-Kaduna train attack. The former Lagos State governor from 1999 t0 2007 said the attack on the Abuja-Kaduna train on Monday night by marauders on harmless passengers was a “national […]
Continue ReadingThe two most disadvantaged groups in Nigeria’s representational politics are northern Christians and Southern Muslims. In Nigeria’s internal geopolitics, these two groups are structurally invisible, politically subjugated, and told to be content with their political and symbolic marginality. Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a Muslim from Osun/Lagos states, and Yakubu Dogara, a northern Christian from Bauchi State, […]
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