By Farooq Kperogi
Not since 1993 when MKO Abiola chose Babagana Kingibe as his running mate has the religious complexion of a presidential ticket excited the passions of Nigerians as much as Bola Tinubu’s choice of KashimShettima as his running … Read the rest
Bola Ahmed Tinubu
By Farooq Kperogi
I frankly don’t get what people are mocking in Bola Tinubu’s characterization of climate-change policies for poor countries as “a question of how do you prevent a church rat from eating poisoned Holy Communion.”
Tinubu merely deployed … Read the rest
Questions and concerns over Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s absence from the Nigerian public space, which has trended on Twitter for days on end, are not misplaced or ill-willed gotcha maneuvers by political detractors. They are legitimate expressions of anxieties over the … Read the rest
Mrs. Aisha Buhari’s insensitive flaunt of the graduation of her daughter-in-law from a UK university while public universities in Nigeria are shut as a direct consequence of her husband’s blithe unconcern instantiates the truism that neither money nor power can … Read the rest
Ancient Greeks are credited with saying the truth is often the first casualty in war. I think in political campaigns, truth is also the first casualty, and we have started to see that already in the current election cycle in … Read the rest
I have never physically met APC Vice Presidential candidate Kashim Shettima, but I have communicated with him for extended periods over the past seven years. I’ve found him to be a man of vast and versatile erudition and a bibliophile … Read the rest
Farooq Kperogi
In contemporary Nigeria, the term “restructuring” has become something of a “God term,” as rhetorical scholars call words and expressions that instinctively evoke warm fuzzy feelings in people, that galvanize people into action, that are unquestioningly sanctified by a cultural … Read the rest
By Farooq Kperogi
I wrote a tongue-in-cheek, intentionally sarcastic status update yesterday that I won’t be surprised of the INEC chairman gets an APC presidential nomination form while still an INEC chairman given the norm-bending absurdities that we’ve been seeing … Read the rest
Bukola Saraki
By Farooq Kperogi
Bukola Saraki is one of the strongest contenders for PDP’s presidential nomination. On paper, his identity agnosticism (i.e., his capacity to be simultaneously a northerner and a southerner) is a great selling point, but he is, in … Read the rest
By Farooq Kperogi
There is an unexampled swarming of the presidential nomination arena by a motley crowd of wannabes. One argument for this is that Muhammadu Buhari and Yemi Osinbajo have been such dreadful catastrophes as “president” and “vice president” … Read the rest
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