Opinion

Threatening your party leadership simply because you are a Governor is not the best way to establish common ground and a reasonable consensus on any matter.

“That is not the kind of President I am talking about. I mean a President with the big P, not the small one that gives you a delusion of importance.”

To advance their case for the rights to run Nigeria as part of these wholly-owned family charities, these scions of unknown money are spending the generosity of their apocryphal family trusts with the enthusiasms of the mythical drunken sailor.

Both the wheat and the chaff—mostly the chaff—now litter the presidential nomination field.

Something was severely threatening food security in Africa, and Nigeria particularly.

If the political transition under military president Ibrahim Babangida was an attempt to depart from the unspoken tradition of not handing over power to candidates who are both rich and politically influential, the power brokers took the lessons from the Abiola misadventure to heart.

For the most part, Nigeria’s political public relations is crude, vulgar, and intellectually impoverished.

Today, let’s dwell on something they have deliberately refused to see, hear, and chose not to talk about.

The effect of pardon amounts to the nullification of punishment or consequences of a crime and conviction.