“A culture that suppresses their best, experienced, and leading figures can ground the system.” —Ebuka Onyekwelu In a general sense, almost everyone within the Nigerian public service system is patiently waiting for their turn. To wait for one’s turn is beyond merely waiting to assume rulership. It is a worldview that connotes something deeper. A state of ascendancy to the top of the chain, but unaffected and unbothered, with zero responsibility. The more one ascends...
“Are politicians giving up on opposition politics which is a critical democratic content in a struggling country?” —Ebuka Onyekwelu Since the All Progressives Congress – APC, took over Governance in Nigeria in 2015, there has been a near-total collapse of opposition to the National Government. The major opposition which is the Peoples’ Democratic Party – PDP, has been so decimated that it is now an image of its former self. With twelve states, the PDP...
Most mornings, when I wake up, the rays of the risen sun have passed through the six-inch crack up in the wall to rest where they should be…at the very edge of my sleeping mat. If the sharp, tiny rods of illumination were there, I’d trace the gleams of energy through the fissure to reach the rounded star in its most benign form. The one-room house I shared with my parents, Anne and Joachim, served...
“Any society that has some of its best and brightest wanting to govern on its mainstream platforms is safe.” —Ebuka Onyekwelu A critical supposition of the democratic government is that the people themselves will take full ownership of their government by taking full control of their political processes. This is based on the fact that there is no government in a democracy without the political processes. Hence, to take ownership of the government, the people...
“Fubara is a man of immense indiscretion who lacks the political know-how to navigate the troubled waters of Rivers politics.” —Ebuka Onyekwelu If it were to be described in one word, the feud between Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State and Nyesom Wike can be correctly referred to as the balance of terror for very obvious reasons. Nyesom Wike has since gained a reputation for hard talk, with a strongman posturing. He has been consistent...
” If you have an example of white privilege, look no further…” _________________________ A guy fell off a mile-high cliff…a promontory of jagged-edge rocks, dusted off his pants and walked away, smiling wickedly…knowingly. There were no contraptions like a parachute employed by this man to break his fall. He slipped, and screamed his way down, believing he was going to die; aware that there would be no more cold champagne bottles to pop open, and...
“Good governance, progress, or development, is only incremental and not automatic.” —Ebuka Onyekwelu Nasir El Rufai, former Governor of Kaduna State on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for two terms of 8 years, has finally left his party after weeks of trolling both the party and the president. This must not come as a surprise. Most Nigerian politicians would do same therefore it must also not been construed as some form...
“Whether they are voluntarily or involuntarily resigning or being sacked, there is something fundamentally wrong.” —Ebuka Onyekwelu For at least the fourth time in three years, another Commissioner in Governor Soludo’s cabinet has taken a walk from the services of the Anambra State Government. Appointed at the inception of Soludo’s administration, Mr. Chikodiri Anara, who served as Special Adviser to former Governor, Willie Obiano, resigned or was dismissed from his appointment as Commissioner for Homeland...
“There are so many Biblical references telling us that Jesus Christ had the features of all negritude beings” _________________________ “Two young boys, one white, the other black. They died and went to Heaven. They stopped at the Pearly Gates just before God allowed them to enter His Kingdom. “God, are you white, or are you black?” The white boy asked, in his attempt to prove to the black boy that God is white. “I am...
“APGA must now compete on its own merit about what it can exclusively offer.” —Ebuka Onyekwelu So far, no fewer than seven aspirants have picked their Nomination and Expression of Interest forms from the National Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress – APC, ahead of the party’s primary on April 6th, and the General Election on November 8, 2025. According to the party’s timetable, the sale of forms to aspirants for the coming Anambra governorship...
