Are we fair to the Igbos?
Often times, we have heard Nigerian proximate political actors argue about rotational presidency as a panacea to perceived political marginalisation.
Between Obi and Kwankwaso, who’s the “Local Champion” now?
My unrelenting assertions, which have turned out to be accurate, that one of Bola Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar, or Peter Obi would emerge president this year riled them to no end.
Nigeria’s iron rules of power divination
The rule of succession by propinquity to power has held good for both military and civilian rule in Nigeria.
The positive sides of Tinubunomics
What we see is that the President has continued to play “Rose Garden politics”, grab the power, hold it, and be seen to be taking charge and be seen also to be doing so, even as the opposition continues to raise questions of legitimacy.
Who is Buhari’s 2023 candidate?
Buhari is of the conservative stock, but Tinubu is the wheeler-dealer politician who understands the art of the deal.
What really matters to Obasanjo
There’s nothing that the former president covets more than the power to call once and get attention twice.
Peter Obi and the audacity of hope
I highlighted what made him unique in American political history and why he was uniquely positioned to redefine the polity.
Anti-corruption hero, President Buhari leads by example by Garba Shehu
Beyond the unyielding determination to lead by setting examples, President Buhari strongly believes that there must be consequences for corruption.
2023 election highlights imperative of power rotation
In Nigeria, the embeddedness of identity in electoral politics is complicated by the fact that our political divisions are formed around invariable attributes such as ethnicity and near invariable categories such as religion.