Author: Peter Tuketu
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Why and How Ovie Omo-Agege lost in Delta State – By Mideno Bayagbon
A lot has been said in the media, especially on political platforms on television and in the social media, about the gubernatorial elections in Delta State, which the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, the Right Honourable Sheriff Francis Oborevwori, won convincingly, pulling over 360,060 votes to Ovie Omo-Agege, the APC’s candidate’s 240,000.
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Sheriff Oborevwori vs Ovie Omo-Agege: politicians drag me into their fray – By Mideno Bayagbon
For one who has shied away from getting actively involved in Nigerian politics, someone who had rejected all political appointments and had privately vowed, long ago, not to get entangled in it, I am sorry to report I got lured, tempted beyond self interest and found myself in the steamy, sweaty room of this seemingly…
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Why Deltans will vote Sheriff Oborevwori as Governor – By Mideno Bayagbon
In three days time, Deltans, like in most states in Nigeria, will be flooding voting centres to decide who should be their next Governor. It will be a straight fight between the Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Sheriff Francis Oborevwori and Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege.
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Here is who I think will win the presidential elections; and why – By Mideno Bayagbon
This Saturday Nigerians will be trooping to the polls to elect the one, they think, should succeed President Muhammadu Buhari as President. After that, it is going to be a nail biting experience, as they wait for the announcement of who has emerged as President between Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the PDP, Mr Peter Obi…
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An angry Supreme Court and bolekaja judgments – By Mideno Bayagbon
Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, was boiling with anger all through last week. And to those who stoke his anger, he issued a stern warning. To them and to those Nigerians, who, he says, want to bring opprobrium on the Supreme Court of Nigerian Justices, he promised them a red eye. No one,…
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New Naira Notes: Tinubu, APC are crying; Nigerians angry, frustrated – By Mideno Bayagbon
What a week last week turned out to be: Pain and sorrow and blood and the worst of our humanity crawled out of their dingy holes and made life hell for majority of Nigerians. I am talking about saboteurs and government-induced sufferings occasioned by scarcity of the redesigned Naira notes and petrol. Life which hasalready made us natives…
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New Naira Notes: Who are the saboteurs: Bank MDs or CBN’s Emefiele? – By Mideno Bayagbon
Today we are going to just skirt around a kaleidoscope of issues, a kind of look at the major trending issues of the past one week. The most current of these is the extension granted by the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, for the submission of the old Naira notes to the banks and the coming…
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See why the whole world is laughing at Wike and G5 – By Mideno Bayagbon
This is the song that comes to mind each time I remember how Governor Nyesom Wike and his gang of five governors and a sprinkling of some political heavyweights in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, called Integrity Group, have boxed themselves into a quagmire they are finding it difficult to extricate themselves from.
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Who would you have your children be like: Tinubu, Atiku or Obi? – By Mideno Bayagbon
I don’t know if readers saw one video that trended last week in the social media, in which one Bishop Samuel Olumakinde Alawode prayed a prayer most of his congregants were unable to say a uniform, loud affirmative “AMEN’” He started quite innocently and his church members apparently were caught unawares by the content of…
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Delta 2023 and Those Who Live in Glass Houses – By Daniel Nwakolu
Politics has become a game in which those who participate use persuasion to win the hearts of the people so that they can also get their votes during election time. In order to realize that goal, politicians tell the people what they want to do differently to better their lives. The goals of politics and…