Why Anambra Assembly May Become the New Political Battle Ground

“It is thoroughly doubtful that the governor’s influence will make any difference going forward” ―Ebuka Onyekwelu Careful observation of the political situation in Anambra state now can very easily predict that Anambra state House of Assembly will become the new political battleground. While the outgoing government is struggling to perfect its papers, and perhaps, see if the government can get just one more budget passed for it by the Assembly, the incoming government is also...

Umeoji’s recognition by INEC is a mockery of the APGA Reconciliation Committee

There is nothing completely off the table in politics. ―Ebuka Onyekwelu The decision by INEC based on a certain Jigawa federal court judgment, to recognize the candidacy of Hon. Chukwuma Umeoji and not Prof. Chukwuma Soludo is a sort of climax in the long-standing controversy trailing APGA’s general conduct so far in the 2021 governorship election in Anambra state. For the first time in a very long while, party members and keen observers were caught...

Rescuing the futility of APGA’s peace-reconciliation committee ―Prof. Soludo’s options

The APGA peace-reconciliation committee does not look like a peace committee. It looks like a campaign committee ―Ebuka Onyekwelu A look at the newly constituted committee to reconcile differences in APGA and square the warring factions reveal very clearly that it is an afterthought, perhaps, a mere committee set up solely for the purpose of just having it on record. So many things are not right with the committee, ranging from the timing to membership...

Nigerian President Buhari Clashes With Twitter Chief Executive Dorsey

By John Campbell, Guest Columnist and Blogger   The Buhari administration’s June ban on Twitter in Nigeria, combined with proposals within Buhari’s All Progressives Congress (APC) to allow the federal government to establish a “code of conduct” for Nigeria’s media to counter, among other things, “fake news,” rightly sets off alarm bells within the human rights community. Nigeria is challenged on multiple fronts: a jihadi insurrection in the North East and increasingly in the North West; quarrels over water and...

Political Relevance of Southern Governor’s Forum to the People’s Struggles

“Clearly defined position of Southern Governors  are of mammoth benefit to the people and struggles of Southern Nigeria. ―Ebuka Onyekwelu Many people are conversant with the 1914 merger of the Northern and Southern protectorate of Nigeria by the British, to create what country is called Nigeria as it is known. Over the years, the Southern protectorate has almost completely withered, broken down into sub-regions, and then, states. With no significant source of unification, Southern Nigeria...

Critical Race Theory and Ravages of the White Fragility Concept

Two truths are told: One of them Is entirely bull-pucky ―Don Okolo I couldn’t wait another day for my mind to undo the straps holding it down. The manacles of a particular enslavement had successfully snaked through the synapses of the once intransigent, Teflon psyche to rope it firmly. Coffee and all the bourbon in the world, the usual panacea, couldn’t do it. Every effort at untying the hardened braces to grant me my freedom...

Nigeria’s Northern Elders Forum: Keeping the Igbo is Not Worth a Civil War

By John Campbell, Guest Columnist and Blogger   On June 9, following a closed-door meeting, the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) issued a public statement that the Igbo-dominated southeast should be allowed to secede from the Federal Republic of Nigeria if it was necessary to avoid a civil war. NEF spokesman Hakeem Baba-Ahmed said “the Forum has arrived at the difficult conclusion that if support for secession among the Igbo is as widespread as it is being made...

OPINION: Anambra 2021: Nigerian Political Parties Keep Stumbling

In 2021, which is exactly twenty-two years after democracy and partisan politics was reintroduced in Nigeria, political parties in Nigeria still lack internal functional mechanisms and certain rudiments of a working system. Partisan politics is still a do or die, fraught with confusing court injunctions, hooliganism, and brigandage. Political parties are still largely made up of men who can do anything for power; people who do not care one bit, about how to get the...

OPINION: What Igbo Political Leaders Must Do Now

For almost two months, the Southeast geo-political zone, which used to be the safest zone in Nigeria, was suddenly engulfed by a distressing security situation that speedily degenerated. Worst is the guerrilla style with which the attacks were coordinated. What started as an attack on security formations around the zone by “unknown gunmen” quickly gained momentum and escalated with more police stations attacked, destroyed, officers killed, and their weapons taken. Thus creating a frightening circle...

OPINION: Why APGA Must Not Die

I have now taken a closer and more subjective view on the current crisis rocking the All Progressives Grand Alliance –APGA. And although I have been very critical of the way the party has been going about without due recourse to various interests within the party to harmonize and aggregate the same, it, however, remains the truth that APGA must not be destroyed by both the leadership and those that are aggrieved in the party....

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