Tag: Dr Farooq Kperogi

Impeachment: Response to an Ill-informed Law Lecturer called Sylvester Udemezue By Farooq Kperogi

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I usually don’t respond to responses to my public interventions. The only times I do so is if a response not only drips wet with intolerable ignorance but also has the potential to replicate its nescience among unsuspecting learners. The response of one Sylvester Udemezue—whom I was told is a law lecturer at the Nigerian Law School—to my widely shared explanatory piece on the difference between “impeachment” and “removal from office” fits this bill. The man wrote a tortured, rambling, grammatically awkward, and logically impoverished rant as a riposte to…

The Hypocrisy and Unprofessionalism of Daily Trust’s Editorial on Punch By Farooq Kperogi

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In a professionally unusual editorial in response to Punch Newspaper’s editorial, the Daily Trust said today that “PUNCH went overboard” in describing “an elected government as a ‘regime’ and to refuse to recognize the president by his statutory title.” It characterizes this as “an attempt to delegitimise an elected president and the government he heads.” Daily Trust’s editorial is at once hypocritical and unprofessional. Let’s start with hypocrisy. Daily Trust doesn’t even pretend to be neutral when it comes to Buhari. It’s unapologetically in bed with his regime. This is…

Buhari-Tinubu Alliance Will Crack Noticeably In 2020 – Farooq Kperogi

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Nigerian US-based journalism teacher and critic, Farooq Kperogi, tells The Interview why he has continued to be one of President Buhari’s greatest critics, In what could be his most detailed interview so far, US-based journalism teacher and critic, Farooq Kperogi, speaks on a wide range of issues from his hard-hitting columns to journalism in Nigeria and from Atiku Abubakar to Sowore’s detention and the Buhari-Tinubu relationship. It’s as hard as nails, and yet, clear as crystal. Once you start reading it, you can’t stop: In one of your recent articles,…

Dapchi Girls: Buhari is Emboldening, Not Degrading, Boko Haram By Farooq Kperogi

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The abduction of innocent school girls in Dapchi, Yobe State, is yet another evidence of the falsehood about Buhari’s “success” in downgrading Boko Haram. I have called out these lies several times in the past at the cost of inviting smears and ad hominem attacks on myself. But I don’t care. It’s an insignificant price to pay for standing for the truth. Contrary to claims that his government has downgraded Boko Haram, Buhari is actually bolstering the group. For evidence, look at these facts: As a reward for releasing 84…