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I just read a piece by Peter Obi talking about June 12 as the fulfilment of our collective Democratic goal. I could not just believe that Peter Obi...... 1.  In 1993, at the tail end of the unending IBB series of Transition Programs, the government set up two government parties -SDP and NRC. MKO Abiola emerged as the Presidential Candidate of SDP while Ibrahim Toffa was the NRC candidate.  IBB was a student of Egyptian ex-President Gamal Nasser and molded his trajectory to leadership after him. Nasser was a military general who planed a coup but handed over power to a senior General Mohamed Naguib to take all the international bashings that new heads of military juntas get. He stayed behind and did all possible to make the government unpopular. He then over threw his boss at the height of his unpopularity and received massive acceptance for his act.  Now the head of state, Nasser transited into civilian president.  IBB had done same thing. He and his boys overthrew S...

The Supreme Court has affirmed Ademola Adeleke as the duly elected governor of Osun state. The apex gave the ruling this afternoon May 9, while delivering judgment in an appeal filed by the immediate past governor of the state, Adegboyega Oyetola of the APC challenging the ruling of the Appeal Court which upheld the election of Adeleke. Delivering judgment, the five-member panel of the apex court led by Justice Emmanuel Agim, held that the court of appeal correctly reinstated Adeleke as governor. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) winner of the July 16, 2022 poll, saying he scored 403,371 votes to sack Oyetola who was the then incumbent and polled a total of 375,027. Oyetola and his party had alleged irregularities in the polls and challenged Adeleke's victory in the tribunal. On January 27, 2023, Justice Tertse Kume who gave the majority judgement upturned Adeleke's victory and declared Oyetola the wi...

Tinubu  Nigeria’s ‘president-elect’, Bola Tinubu, will be sworn in on May 29 despite the court cases challenging his victory, the information and culture minister, Lai Mohammed has said. Mohammed, however, noted that opposition political parties have the right to challenge the outcome of the presidential election in court. SaharaReporters had reported that the Independent National Electoral Commission declared the former Lagos Governor and the All Progressives Congress candidate, Bola Tinubu, as the ‘winner’ of the February 25 presidential election. According to INEC, Tinubu polled 8,794,726 votes to defeat the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar who polled 6,984,520 votes. The Labour Party candidate and former Anambra governor, Mr Peter Obi polled 6,101,533 votes to come third. Since the election, there has been an outcry by members of the opposition who said the election was marred by irregularities. They argued that the results do not reflect the wish of th...

Wole Soyinka.  Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka has said the 2023 elections in Nigeria "broke his trust" Stating that he was out of the country for some months, Soyinka said the elections was “not exactly the most edifying exercise that we’ve been through.”   “On arriving, I came in for the World Poetry Day, and immediately, I was bombarded by the most horrendous narratives both pre and after the elections,” he said to Channels TV on Monday, April 3.   “Since then, I’ve also read columns; I’ve seen Nigerian papers for the first time in months and I didn’t like what I read at all. “My trust has broken down completely and even the minimum restraint that we’ve learnt to expect from seasoned politicians have been jettisoned completely.” He said the existing mould was going to be broken. “And the signs were there that there would be die-hard opposition to the breaking of that mould,” he said. “Elections should be keenly contested. But I still believe very much in what I call the F...