Tag: Aso Rock
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Buhari’s Long Farewell – By Chidi Amuta
In recent weeks, President Muhammadu Buhari has been unusually busy. In addition to his normal routines in the line of duty, the president has been making the most of the last lap of his rather unflattering tenure. Through a series of farewell utterances and gestures that will last from now till May, he has been…
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Aso Rock is catching cold, Senators are crying – By Mideno Bayagbon
I have been laughing and laughing since some members of the National Assembly came out, to disturb our anxiety filled lives, singing: “All we are saying, Buhari must go!” First the shock. Then the laughter. Seeing them in their rich designer and expensive flowing native wears, donned over their lush, glowing bodies and them forming…
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Uncanny challenges on the path to presidency for APC and PDP – By Magnus Onyibe
Before delving into the nitty-gritty of the obviously rough road to Aso Rock Villa seat of presidential power, permit me to draw attention to the fact that l had predicted that becoming president of Nigeria in 2023 will be a straight fight between former president, Turaki Atiku Abubakar (1999-2007 and ex Lagos state governor, Asiwaju…
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The night Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu outfoxed Aso Rock mafia – By Mideno Bayagbon
It was Monday afternoon. And I was still in no mood to write my column which I had intended titling: The Peter Obi Momentous Phenomenon and 2023 Presidential Election. But I was too despondent, filled with untold anger at the abyss into which we have descended as a nation. I could not bring myself to…
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Emefiele visits Buhari, may shelve presidential ambition
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Abuja met behind closed doors with the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele. The agenda of the meeting between the president and Emefiele could not be ascertained as at the time of filing this report. However, it was gathered that the CBN governor might have…
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The 2023 Road to Aso Rock? – By Olusegun Adeniyi
My friend and brother, Magnus Onyibe could not have picked a better time to publish this book, ‘Becoming President of Nigeria: A Citizen’s Guide’. But I doubt if politicians and private sector titans who have already invested forty or one hundred million Naira just to secure the nomination forms of their parties would be looking…
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Tambuwal meets Buhari behind closed doors
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday met behind closed-doors with Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Tambuwal, who was elected on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party’s (PDP), has since indicated interest to contest for 2023 presidential election.
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NATIONAL CONVENTION: President Buhari meets APC govs
The Governors arrived at the vicinities of the Aso Rock Presidential Villa
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2023: Of Buhari, Governors and Aso Rock as major Corruption enablers – By Mideno Bayagbon
In all of this, it is clear that Governors are the major enablers of corruption in Nigeria. In APC, there is the added fact that Aso Rock handlers are the chiefest enablers of corruption in the land today. That accounts for who they are backing to replace President Buhari. They want the sweet lollipop of…
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