OPINION: Elite Compact Thrown Into Doubt as Atiku Abubakar’s Emergence Blows Nigerian Presidential Race Wide Open

The outcome of party presidential primaries appears to signal the end of post-military elite political consensus.   Insofar as the axle of political contestation in Nigeria is the struggle for power between the northern and southern elite blocs, systemic stability hinges on the moral understanding that power will rotate between the two regions. The order of succession since the inauguration of the Fourth Republic in 1999 has largely followed the logic of this entente, starting...

Edwin Clark Asks PDP Chairman, Ayu, to Resign Over Presidential Primary

Elder statesman and leader of the Pan-Niger Delta Forum, Chief Edwin Clark, has asked the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, to resign. According to him, Ayu is no longer fit and proper to retain his position as the national chairman of the PDP. Clark, a former First Republic federal Commissioner of Information, said this in a statement on Tuesday, titled, “Resign now: You’re no longer fit to remain PDP...

Peter Obi Promises To Return Nigeria To The Rightful Owners As He Clinches LP Presidential Ticket

The former Governor of Anambra State and former People’s Democratic Stalwart, Peter Obi, has vowed that he will return Nigeria to its rightful owners after he emerged as the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP). Former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, has promised to return Nigeria to its rightful owners after his emergence as the presidential candidate of the Labour Party. He said this in his acceptance speech obtained by our correspondent...

OPINION: Reaction to “Blasphemy” Killing Illustrates Complicated Role of Religion in Nigeria’s Democratic Transition

Horrendous killing of college sophomore highlights the country’s ethnoreligious fault line, but interdenominational rivalry in the south is of no less moment.   All in all, reactions to the murder of Ms. Deborah Yakubu, a 200-level home economics student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto, have exposed Nigeria’s deepest political fractures and lingering questions over citizenship, national identity, and secularity. On May 12, following disagreement over a WhatsApp voice note deemed to have been...

Peter Obi: Between the Politics of a Delegate and the Downing Street Photoshoot

“Obi’s latest political move contradicts his own gospel of being indispensable, and it hurts his credibility moving forward.” Just a few days before his People’s Democratic Party (PDP) was due for its national convention, Nigerian presidential hopeful Peter Obi shocked his camp with an announcement. Mr. Obi announced his resignation from the party and also his withdrawal from the presidential race on his party’s slate. There were, however, rumors that he would join the Labour...

Peter Obi Explains Why He Left PDP

Former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, has explained that “recent developments” within the Peoples Democratic Party were responsible for his resignation from the opposition party and withdrawal from its presidential primary slated for the end of May. Obi was one of the 15 PDP presidential aspirants cleared by the Senator David Mark-led Presidential Screening Committee last month. However, the ex-governor, in a statement addressed to the PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, explained that the...

Abi You’re Not Thinking What I’m Thinking?

Is ‘brand’ a lie or a camouflage? Or should I ask: “Is camouflage a lie?”   Am I confused?   Certainly not Or Maybe.   Let’s talk about the CEO that pushes junk snack and drinks to the common man but forbids himself or his children to take them. He takes and feeds them soya milk and smoothies, instead.   But he is the CEO, isn’t it? Don’t tell me it’s for money. Or maybe...

Indignity of a Sorry Mandate ―A Rage at The Wicked

It’s actually your dumb head for me. How you think to be hailed ‘The I Am That I Am’ How you envisage being praised ‘Baba hum baba hum’. Look at your fatty neck Suffocating your wind pipe, Full of stolen funds- The one you alleged to a monkey. Oh poor monkey.   Even this DRUM you call belly could pass for a parachute Come to think of it how does your tiny anus bear the...

Umahi: Biafra Agitation Will End If An Igbo Man Becomes President

OWERRI — All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential aspirant and Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi believes the agitation for an independent state of Biafra championed by the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) will be over if the next president emerges from the South-East. Umahi stated this when he addressed delegates of the party from the South-East in Imo State at a consultative meeting in Owerri, the state capital, on Tuesday. The News Agency of Nigeria reports...

Boko Haram Terrorists Razes 512 Schools, Killed 600 Teachers In Borno

Boko Haram terrorists have razed 512 schools and killed 600 teachers in Borno state within the past 12 years of insurgency. The Director of School Services, State Universal Basic Education Board Ali Dogo made this known at the launch of EduTrac mobile phone-based data collection system and mainstreaming of psycho-social support into formal education in Borno state in partnership with United Nations Children Education Fund (UNICEF).  “Low levels of education and literacy in northeast Nigeria have...

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