So, why can’t Umahi run on his achievements and allow the governor of Abia State to receive the praise he deserves for his efforts?
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Are we not risking a dead and forgotten party by June, 2026 when all serious members would have found new alliances?”
Maybe history is repeating itself here, and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s men had seen the light very early in the day.
That also led to PDP’s failure at the polls. The governors seized hold of the party, and they appeared to be coasting home.
If his contest is based on a verifiable performance chart rather than an unbecoming entitlement mentality, many may wish to consider his quest.
Shakespeare in Act 5, Scene 3 of the play, relayed the conversation between the distraught Romeo and Paris, who had accused Romeo of coming to Juliet’s tomb to do some “villainous shame” to the dead body. He then put the question to Romeo: “Can violence be pursued further than death? The troubled Romeo, who confirmed his readiness to die, did not argue with his accuser. He dealt him a deadly strike and added… “tempt not a desperate man.”
Thirty-something years ago, we still met expatriates in the universities. Tell me, which Nigerian university can attract an expatriate lecturer into its system these days?
It is unthinkable that opposition can be silenced in a democracy. There are always two sides of the coin, but if you desire permanent peace, go to the graveyard.
That perhaps answers why the many years of implementation of International Monetary Fund/World Bank policies have failed to redeem the aches of African economies.
But Pa Adebanjo retained the focus of the Afenifere and its allies including the Southern Middle Belt Forum (SMBF) and the Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF)
You may want to ask that party, which is the nation’s main opposition party, where are its alternative blueprints for governance?
This is notwithstanding the dissenting voices, which believed that local governments should be left at the mercy of the states.
As much as we mourn the untimely death of the Uromi 16, this nation has no right to grow a thick skin to stories of blood flow elsewhere.
When a dogged fighter battles till the end, it is difficult to realise that he was possibly stretching his contributions beyond the limits.
Rather than seek avenues for religious dichotomy and segregation, forward-looking religious practices should be the focus.
The Assistant Inspector General was asked to hand off the file and was later slammed with the three-step petition as mentioned above.
But legislators have been eating their cakes and still having it in full, especially since the return of democratic governance in 1999.
According to the IPU, the paradox is all about the contrast between what (democracy) promised and what eventually comes out.
The 82-year-old Fika was there to preside over a meeting to press home the need for the payment of the entitlements of National Assembly retirees.
Tinubu’s decisions as president of Nigeria cannot in any way aggregate the opinions of the Yoruba people, home and in the diaspora.