What Now for the Igbo?

The Igbo political elite faces the challenge of transforming an unimpeachable moral argument into a winning political coalition. As campaigning for the just concluded presidential election gathered pace, Peter Obi, standard bearer of the Labour Party (LP) found himself athwart two apparently contrary impulses. The first, let’s call it the liberal impulse, centered on the irrepressible energy and creativity of the “Obi-dient,” the mass of mostly young enthusiasts who had come to see the former Anambra State...

Revisiting the Pathway to Nigeria’s President of Igbo Extraction

Probably by the end of the coming week, many people would have gotten used to the fact that the 2023 Presidential Election has been won and lost. Again, with the Southeast not able to produce a President after an intense run by Peter Obi of the Labour Party. Moving on from here, what is next in the bid for actualizing the vision for a Nigeria’s president of Igbo extraction? No doubt the 2023 Presidential Election...

The United States Should Not Play Russia’s Game in Africa

In the wake of reports of a Wagner Group plot in Chad, Washington should resist the urge to resurrect Cold War-era partnerships. Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Russia’s Wagner Group is working with rebels in Chad to target the country’s transitional president, Mahamat Idriss Deby, who came to power by extra-constitutional means when his father was killed in 2021. The plot paints a picture of an ambitious Russian strategy to gain influence in a block...

2023 Elections: Igbos and Bigotry

By Osita Chidoka “Here is the fact! Electoral results from 1979 to date show that the South East is ethnically blind regarding voting.” I will speak about the 2023 Presidential election after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has completed the upload of results on the IREV portal. As of today, Thursday, March 2, 2023, at 5.56 pm, INEC had uploaded results from 153,546 Polling Units, five days after the election! Despite my desire to...

The Real Cities Of Sodom And Gomorrah

“Take a look at those we have put in Aso Rock in the last forty years. Dimwitted dumbasses. Dark-soul-ed oddballs. Grifters. Thieves, the kinds that turn over the treasury bag, shake it loose just for the pennies to drop. They left us with an empty bag” _________________________ Why do you people weep? Have you not cried enough? Why do you citizens of the nation of Nigeria not wake up and walk away from the nightmare?...

Losses and Gains of Saturday’s National Assembly Election

“Traditional political parties, the APC and the PDP, must undergo major reforms if they will remain relevant in years ahead. ” —Ebuka Onyekwelu The outcome of Saturday’s National Assembly election is no longer news. From the results so far, it is clear that there is a shift. In Anambra State, Labour Party defeated two incumbent senators and picked five of the eleven House of Representatives seat. In Enugu, Labour Party also took two senatorial seats...

Six Realities about Nigerian that Might Shape Saturday’s Presidential Election Outcome

“Social media is a reality of its own accord but remains a virtual world that may not have a significant real-world impact” —Ebuka Onyekwelu A closer look at Nigeria devoid of the arrogation of advantages by supporters of the top three contenders might show that the election would be determined by six socio-economic realities in Nigeria. Aside from religion and ethnic identities which have always played a significant role in Nigeria’s election, there are more...

Political Escapade By Nigerian Supreme Court

If our Mighty Supreme Court did not come out via her official public image maker to publicly defend herself and admonish those that criticised her Naira Redesign Ex-parte Order, a lawyer like my good self who took an oath to defend our noble profession and law institutions, would not have bothered to join issues with her. But this is Law of Evidence 101. By coming out publicly to defend her ill-conceived Ex-parte Order, she has...

Buhari’s Unforced Error

A poorly thought out and poorly timed monetary policy sends Nigeria into a tailspin.   Even for an administration notorious for its capricious decision-making, the outgoing Buhari government’s decision to implement a complex currency-swap policy on the eve of a national election has been something of a head-scratcher. To say that the policy is proving very costly is to put it mildly. While both President Muhammadu Buhari and Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Godwin Emefiele remain...

Nigerian 2023 Presidential Election: A Ground Zero Perspective

In about one week or so, Nigerians will elect a new President and National Assembly. And, from all socio-political indications, the only thing that is surely certain is that the Nigerian Political Landscape will be structurally and behaviourally altered for good. Make no mistakes, some political merchants, with open approval of APC-PDP, will try to rig the Election. But that will not work this time around because the era of blatant and mindless rigging and...

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