Tag: 2023 Elections

WIKE’S DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR AND CRY FOR MATERNAL HELP By Law Mefor

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Days ago, the governor of Rivers state Nyeson Wike held a national press conference on the crisis he is visiting on his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. He said not much that was new. But he re-emphasised that his grouse was that the South has been shortchanged by the PDP allowing a northerner to emerge as its presidential flag-bearer.   In order words, Wike presented himself as speaking for and defending the South whereas he was the person who blocked the PDP presidential ticket from coming to the South…

A Loose Canon…Quintessential! By Olaleye Olawale

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You can’t but snicker reading people, who still think Nyesom Wike, has any harm to do to the PDP, having gone completely rogue. The fact of the matter is that, he’s sinking already and simply clutching at straws. He already could see a devastating end from his current standpoint and has therefore left no room for genuine rapprochement.   For a man, who has no restraint or decorum, calls out everyone and says everything he feigns to have an inkling about, and you think such is a politician and leader?…

2023 ELECTIONS: IGP meets Strategic Police Managers , charges political actors to campaign within extant legal frameworks · … Excludes Quasi-Security Outfits from Election Security Management

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The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba in active and strategic preparation for the 2023 General Elections, has along with the Force Management Team, met with Strategic Police Managers comprised Assistant Inspectors-General of Police, and Commissioners of Police across Zonal, State Commands and Formations to review evolving political programmes laid down by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and chart clear pathways for a smooth electoral process in the countdown to the elections. The IGP charged all officers present to boost the security of their public space towards guaranteeing…

I stand with Buhari By Lasisi Olagunju

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The story you are about to read was published by the Nigerian Tribune 38 years ago. It was the lead story of its June 5, 1984 edition. Written by Joe Aladesohun, it was headlined: ‘Man commits suicide’ with a rider: ‘frustration at the bank’.   The report:   A middle-aged man committed suicide in Ibadan last Wednesday following what sources described as “series of hopeless visits to his bank for cash.”   The partly decomposed body of Mr. K. O. (I withhold the name), a 48-year-old civil servant of the…

2023: SHOULD THE NATION CONSCIOUSLY ELECT A SICK PRESIDENT? By Law Mefor

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Nigeria practices presidentialism, and in a presidential democracy, the nation rests on the shoulders of one man. The health of the president is therefore of major premium in determining the electability of a candidate. This gives no room for arguments. All public offices, the office of the president inclusive, demand people who are sound both in body and in mind so that efficiency and proficiency will be brought to bear in the exercise of the duties of the office.   Nigeria is one county where the unthinkable happens all the…

2023: We won’t insult rival parties during campaign – Tinubu

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Bola Tinubu

Ahead of the official commencement of political campaigns, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu, has said that he will not exchange insults with other political parties. The former Lagos state governor stated this during his meeting with APC’s Northern State lawmakers in Abuja on Saturday, September 3, 2022. He noted that APC is a smarter party, urging members not to be bothered about the opposition. According to Tinubu: “We shall not be hauling abuses at rival political parties. “We don’t need…

How I plan to identify, solve Nigeria’s problems – Tinubu

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, says his team has the foresight to identify Nigeria’s problems and solve them headlong. Asiwaju Tinubu stated this at the inauguration of campaign logo and vehicles of the “APC Northern Door-to-Door for Tinubu/Shettima 2023’’ by the Northern APC Speakers Forum in Abuja on Saturday. He said his team is also capable of creating prosperity for Nigeria and her citizens. “We are the party of progressive ideas. We want good education for our children, good development for Nigeria, prosperity…

Dauda Dare, 2023 and Zamfara Central Zone By Ibrahim Badamasi

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Since its creation in 1996, by the late Sani Abacha administration, Zamfara, which pride itself as state of farming and Sharia has metamorphosed into reckoning following its modest development, but certainly, yet to reach its full potential   Successive administrations, particularly the pioneer military governor, Col. Jubril Bala Yakubu (rtd) laid the template of modern Zamfara and dissipated energy and resources for the full take off of the young state.   The mantle of leadership fell on Senator Ahmed Sani Yarima, the first civilian governor of the state from Zamfara…

2023: I have no preferred candidate, but national agenda – Obasanjo

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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has stated that he has no preferred candidate among those contesting the 2023 presidential election. Obasanjo, who stated this in Minna on Sunday when he paid former Head of State, General Abdulsalam Abubakar a visit, said he only had a national agenda not a preferred candidate. “I don’t have a special candidate, I have a national agenda.” The former President also said he was in Minna to visit the former Head of State who had been indisposed. “I came to see my brother who has been…

2023 elections and needless confusion over manual results collation, By Moshood Isah

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…the outcry on the issue of manual collation is probably due to the poor knowledge of Nigeria’s electoral framework or lack of confidence in the electoral commission and the reputation it had spent the last decade rebuilding. It is indeed worrisome that despite the citizens-driven campaign on electoral reform and marked improvement in the transparency of our elections, there remains a trust deficit between Nigerians and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).   Recently, a traditional news platform published a story saying that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will…