Tag: Chidi Amuta
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Nigerian Democracy and its deviants – By Chidi Amuta
The off cycle governorship elections in the three states of Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi have come to a rowdy and contentious end. As is typical of all Nigerian elections in recent times, the electoral battlefront may have paused in those states.
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Fiction, journalism and power – By Chidi Amuta
For some reason, Nigeria’s last election season defied all the ‘normal’ expectations and projections. It was like no season before it.
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Rivers: The Emperor Looks In – By Chidi Amuta
As a political destination, Rivers State never ceases to excite and intrigue. It is capable of infinite political possibilities and great drama. In just one day this past week, the state gravitated from order to near anarchy and back into tenuous normalcy
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After judgment day – By Chidi Amuta
The subdued public anxiety over the final outcome of the 2023 presidential election petitions has ended. Predictably, the Supreme Court has acted faithful to what has become its extant tradition. It has done the obvious and predictable.
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Achebe’s message from beyond – By Chidi Amuta
Between the 29th and 30th of September 2023, Princeton University hosted a memorial symposium to mark the10th anniversary of the passing of Chinua Achebe.
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Tinubu’s politics of identity wars – By Chidi Amuta
President Bola Tinubu is confronted with two identity fights united by politics. His political opponents have kept him busy with matters of personal identity and paper qualifications.
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Tinubu’s Buhari burden – By Chidi Amuta
President Bola Tinubu’s success or failure in office may not be the result of his own making. It would be the weight of a political burden he is so far carrying apparently quite willingly.
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The Owerri Consensus – By Chidi Amuta
On a number of occasions, I have felt the irresistible pull of homeland. Maybe it is the subliminal summons of my ancestors or the pull of my birth chord long buried beneath that immortal kola nut tree at the backyard of what used to be my mother’s hut.
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The Supreme Court on trial – By Chidi Amuta
The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal has since reaffirmed the declaration of Mr. Bola Tinubu as our duly elected president. In response, the two major contenders Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar of the Labour Party and Peoples Democratic Party respectively have scaled up their legal objections to the Supreme Court.
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Palliatives, politics and SAP 2 – By Chidi Amuta
My brother and friend, Kayode Komolafe (the man we all call KK) is an uncommon patriot. With an unassuming depth as a public intellectual, KK is equally disarming in his witty humour, a matter to which I shall return some day in the future.