Twice on Wednesday, President Muhammadu Buhari displayed an uncommon generosity of spirit. We had set forth at dawn, shortly before 5 a.m, to visit the presidential campaign office in Central Area of Abuja. The purpose was for the President to read his victory speech, having been pronounced winner of the February 23 election […]
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Yesterday, President Muhammadu Buhari surrendered all pretence to the rule of law and constitutional democracy by sacking the Chief Justice of Nigeria, #WalterOnnoghen. Unilaterally and in flagrant violation of the Constitution, he also swore in #TankoMuhammad as the new acting CJN. By this act, the President has precipitated needless confusion in the polity. […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has said former President Olusegun Obasanjo who took USD 16 billion “upfront” to supply electric power yet failed to add a single megawatt to the national grid to date and there is no trace of the money is jittery that he will be called to account. In a statement which Garba Shehu, […]
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This article sets out two central developments revolving around President Muhammadu Buhari and two key figures. The first is his sudden recognition of the late MKO Abiola and the second, his reported idolisation of the late head of state, General Sani Abacha. Buhari just pulled off a great political “masterstroke”, crowed a friend and a […]
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People of Nigeria, exactly one year ago, you turned out in your millions to vote for me, Chief MKO Abiola, as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. But politicians in uniform, who call themselves soldiers but are more devious than any civilian would want to be, deprived you of your God-given right to […]
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It is not known to this column how close Brigadier Sani Abacha was to Major General Muhammadu Buhari by December 1983. It was Abacha who announced at the end of a few minutes of martial music on new year’s eve that the government of President Shehu Shagari had been thrown into the dust bin of […]
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Being half literate is like a piece of meat being half-cooked. From the outside, the meat looks cooked. It is only when you taste it that you realize that the cook was not cooked through. This is the problem with Muhammadu Buhari. The President does not like to read. If he was a reading man, […]
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When crocodiles eat their own eggs, let frogs run and run. Because of the 2019 elections, an intra-class war is currently raging among a special breed of Nigerians. I call their exclusive enclave the Generals Club. These are a lucky set of army officers who either staged the counter-coup of July 1966 or benefitted from […]
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Enrico Monfrini, a Swiss lawyer hired by the Nigerian government since 1999 to work on recovering Abacha loot, has denied asking for additional fees. His denial came on the heels of a syndicated article in Nigerian media seeking to justify the duplication of Monfrini’s job by Abubakar Malami, the attorney-general of the federation (AGF). […]
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You know I am a leader in the South West and at the National convention, I was elected as the leader of the Yoruba delegation. So, I am central to the Yoruba position. The Yoruba position is my position and it is the same position I canvassed in my book, ‘The way forward for Nigeria’ […]
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