Godwin Obaseki
The pundits who had predicted the outcome and the nature of the Gubernatorial election in Edo State got it all wrong. The Edo 2020 election may well prove to be a turning point in the management of elections in Nigeria, … Read the rest
Oba Ewuare II
The Oba of Benin is truly a monarch after my heart. Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Ewuare II will be four years on the throne of his ancestors in October this year. And he will have something to celebrate.
Adams Oshiomhole
It wasn’t that long ago, 2016 to be exact, when Comrade Adams Oshiomhole—the then-governor of Edo—traversed the state with Mr. Godwin Obaseki urging the people to support his governorship bid. But this was no random act of gratuitousness. Obaseki had … Read the rest
There is a law called Dude’s Law of Duality. It states that of two possible events only the undesired one often occurs. The members of the National Working Committee of the ruling party, APC, led by the Chairman, Comrade Adams … Read the rest
Adams Oshiomhole
What does it take to spend several years as a shop steward, then emerge as the boss; spend several years as trade union regional leader, then emerge as national leader; spend several years on the fringe of formal education, then … Read the rest
Dele Momodu
Fellow Nigerians, let me state once again that I have never been a member of Nigeria’s ruling party, APC, but I was almost a fanatical supporter of its Presidential flagbearer, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, in the 2015 Presidential election. The … Read the rest
Buhari and Oshiomhole
A lot of pushing back is required from the apparatchiks of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, if it must avoid the coming to pass of the grim prophecy of one of its own.
Senator Bukar Abba Ibrahim does not … Read the rest
By Segun Ayobolu
Hurriedly cobbled together into a coalition to wrest power from the then ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) at the centre in the run up to the critical 2015 general elections, the All Progressives Congress (APC) appeared to have rapidly exhausted … Read the rest