Browsing: Chief Olusegun Obasanjo

The truth is that in any government there are usually many polarities and centres of power and the polarity that becomes the centre of gravity in the substantive president’s absence may not necessarily be that of the Acting President. It is possible that a President can fulfil “all righteousness” by handing over power to the Vice President as demanded by the Constitution but cunningly shifts the locus of power to elsewhere

fter the fall of its two chairmen, Adamu Mu’azu and Uche Secondus, the PDP machine, comprising the national caucus, governors, members of the National Working Committee and the party’s leaders in the National Assembly, all lined up behind Modu Sheriff. Femi Fani-Kayode was the notable exception