Tag: Ehichioya Ezomon
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Why Obi blazes trail of 2023 polls – By Ehichioya Ezomon
Barely six months to the February presidential election, contenders for the position have virtually yielded the field to candidate Peter Obi and his platform, the Labour Party. The candidates of other major parties: All Progressives Congress, Peoples Democratic Party and the New Nigeria Peoples Party appear to have no stake in the polls.
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Time for Atiku to call Wike’s bluff – By Ehichioya Ezomon
It’s become a source of embarrassment for an individual to hold the Peoples Democratic Party to ransom – a political platform that boasts of tens of millions of registered members, and millions more of supporters nationwide.
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Tinubu not Amaechi’s problem in Rivers – By Ehichioya Ezomon
What’s happening in the Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, and by extension in the Peoples Democratic Party, appears to defy logic. But it isn’t!
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The hullabaloo over Okowa’s ‘downgrade’ of Obi – By Ehichioya Ezomon
When politicians have nothing to offer, they resort to flaunting their “superior” educational qualifications and/or public or corporate experiences to deceive the electorate.
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Insecurity: Terrorists, bandits dictate affairs of Nigerians – By Ehichioya Ezomon
Due to insecurity in Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari is perceived as unqualified to lecture on security. But he’s good at it the other day on the global stage in Liberia. Buhari spoke in the capital, Monrovia, and advised leaders, especially of the West African sub-region, and the African continent, to avoid actions that warrant unlawful…
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Obi: May ‘ObIdients’ not dim his ambition – By Ehichioya Ezomon
From the look of it, the poster wasn’t embossed, but the mere pasting of the campaign item of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, on Muslims’ prayer mats was enough to set off a firestorm. The mats, whose pictorial was splashed on various social media outlets and platforms, were reportedly donated…
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2023: It’s good Atiku sticks with Okowa – By Ehichioya Ezomon
It’s settled on July 15, 2022: The political parties in Nigeria participating in the 2023 elections submitted the final list of their presidential and vice presidential candidates. Yet, controversies continue to dog the filings by the parties with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), which’d insisted on the deadline.
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Kuje attack: Buhari should be mad, not ‘disappointed’ – By Ehichioya Ezomon
Was President Muhammadu Buhari quoted correctly or misrepresented? That he’s “disappointed” by the failure of security operatives to stem, and crush or repel the daredevil attack on the Custodial Centre in Kuje, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) of Abuja? And this from a president in charge and control of Nigeria’s security apparatus as the Commander-in-Chief…
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2023: ‘Certificate forgery’ threatens Tinubu’s bid – By Ehichioya Ezomon
‘Eneke’ the bird, in acclaimed Prof. Chinua Achebe’s masterpiece, “Things Fall Apart,” says, “Since men have learned to shoot without missing, he has learned to fly without perching.” This analogy comes handy in the allegation of “forgery” against the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
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2023: Okotie, Bakare taking Nigerians for granted – By Ehichioya Ezomon
This declaration by Edmund Burke is apropos for the clamour for religious leaders to join politics and lead by uprightness in governance. But it appears that Nigeria’s “Men of God” of the Christian faith have taken undue advantage of the people’s desire for change, to want to cut corners to get to power.