Dr. Jonathan’s grouse against off-season elections is that they are inconsistent with the global best practices.
Author: Tunde Rahman
Former Vice President and roundly defeated presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, was a pitiful sight to behold on Thursday at the Shehu Yar ‘Adua Centre, Abuja as he sat like a wreck after addressing what he called a world press conference.
In dangling both war and peace options to the Niger military, the regional leaders were bent on restoring constitutional order
It is interesting that the Peoples Democratic Party, its candidate, Governor Obaseki, and the Chairman of the party’s Campaign Council for Edo State, Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, all of who had initially alleged the APC had perfected the rigging of the poll, suddenly turned round, after seeing the results being declared going its way, to say the election was now the best thing to have happened since Nigeria’s independence and that INEC had redeemed its seeming sullen image.
Political carpetbaggers and their hired mercenaries have strained and tugged so hard to paint recent developments within the All Progressives Congress to be what they are not. With the legal disputes regarding the national chairmanship, the party was certainly going through a rough patch.
Coronavirus is biting nations hard. Across the globe, the number of infections rises daily; lives and nations are being torn apart. Global cases exceed one million mark with over 50,000 deaths. In Nigeria, COVID-19 cases had risen close to 200. The daily increase is worrisome. If we do not quickly arrest the rate of increase, we might soon face what is unanswerable.
The global coronavirus pandemic is really gathering speed. The numbers are frighteningly on the rise. As I write this on Thursday, more than 500,000 persons across the world, 65 of them in Nigeria, have been infected with the virus
For Lagosians, this Saturday’s governorship election promises to be decisive. It will put many issues finally to bed. One of the issues that must be put to rest is the chasm that some are trying to create and exploit between Yoruba and Igbo people in Lagos. Even among brothers within the same family who love and care for each other, differences arise at times.
Specifically for us in Osun, next Saturday’s election is significant for what it portends for the future of the state in the next four years. It will determine who takes over from Governor Aregbesola who in eight years laid a solid infrastructural and socio-economic foundation for the state to move to the next level, which is economic development and industrialisation level
As the tenure of the Chief John Odigie-Oyegun-led executives drew to its natural conclusion, some sought for that group an unnatural extension. Odigie-Oyegun and his allies sought to subvert the national and party conventions by forgoing internal party elections in order to give themselves an extra tenure without recourse to the will of the majority of the party
So the writers deduced that the visit was to reconcile the Afenifere leader and Asiwaju, as if Tinubu and Pa Fasoranti were at daggers drawn
In a recent interview with African Independent Television, the embattled chairman accused Governor Nyesom Wike and former PDP Deputy National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, of plotting to hand over the party’s presidential ticket to a prominent leader of the All Progressives Congress
President Muhammadu Buhari was spot on during the week with the nomination of Ndoma-Egba for appointment as Chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission
‘Sometimes I wonder how the electoral system threw up a man of questionable character like Melaye to represent Kogi West in the Senate, as opposed to a more decent Senator Smart Adeyemi, who contested on the Peoples Democratic Party platform…’
Indeed, God gave Ekiti governor a second chance after his disastrous first time. Fayose was forced to abruptly leave the governorship seat and the country after he was impeached
‘For me, Justice Jide Falola of Osun State High Court, who gave the controversial judgement on Hijab, may be right under the law to say it’s the right of Muslim female students to wear Hijab in school. But the law is made for people and not the other way round and those from the temple also sometime weigh the implications of a strict interpretation of the law on the society and peaceful co-existence’
The decision of the hawks at Aso Rock Presidential Villa to hide the real health situation of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua from the public, pretending that the man was well, and blocking then Vice President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, from taking over power as acting president landed the nation in darkness for many months until the National Assembly saved the day with its Doctrine of Necessity