President Muhammadu Buhari’s personal assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie, has responded to a comment by former president Goodluck Jonathan on election rigging. Jonathan was quoted to have advised Buhari against giving in to the presure of rigging the July 14 governorship election in Ekiti and subsequent elections in the country. The former president gave […]
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Just take the phrase: “impending” in the title above with a pinch of salt. I use the word because in politics as in life, things happen – as seemingly absolute situations become redeemable and what originally appears impossible could be the catalyst for fresh opportunities. Otherwise, the truth is that the ruling Nigerian political party, […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari, has taken another swipe at past Leaders that ruled Nigeria between 1999 and 2015, stating that God will judge them for mismanaging the country’s resources. Buhari stated this while speaking in an interview with the Hausa Service of the Voice of America, VOA. Post-Nigeria recalls that former Presidents, Olusegun Obasanjo, and […]
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All the agreements that we have had since 1999, to manage political power for bigger benefits, have been observed in the breach. Therefore, instead of this unending string of broken agreements that makes us look like dwellers in a jungle, we can choose to operate without entering into agreements. I am not talking about […]
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Three years ago, Oronto Douglas, then adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan, lost his brave battle with cancer. He fought to the very last minute. For once, cancer met a stubborn victim who refused to go down without a fight, even when the odds were hopelessly stacked against him. His death on April 9, 2015 – […]
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The House of Representatives has set up an ad hoc committee to investigate the N100bn said to have been disbursed to states by the Central Bank of Nigeria to build “mini” cattle ranches across the country. The National Economic Council reportedly approved the release of the money in 2014 under the administration of former […]
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Again my attention has been drawn to disparaging comments made by Mr. Bola Ahmed Tinubu against former President Goodluck Jonathan and his administration. In the said comments, Mr. Tinubu said “The prior government used the public treasury as a private hedge fund or a charity that limited its giving only to themselves,” he said. “So […]
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Director General of the Voice of Nigeria and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Osita Okechukwu, has asked former President Goodluck Jonathan to quietly retire to any part of the country of his choice and stop challenging the APC and the Buhari government to a public debate, threatening to open the pandora box on the […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has accused his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan of destroying the country’s economy. This was contained in a statement signed by his media aide, Garba Shehu. “With due respects to the former President Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, these are the facts about the economy you left behind, in case you have forgotten. “I hope this […]
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By now, I am sure my readers have read the very disparaging comments against former President Goodluck Jonathan which were credited to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. So pedestrian are those comments that I will not repeat them here. You can Google them on your own if you have not […]
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