Tag: Ehichioya Ezomon
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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.
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The yelling over Tinubu’s choice of Muslim running mate – By Ehichioya Ezomon
The warning about, and the calls for a religiously-motivated voter backlash that preceded Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s alleged “intention” to choose a Muslim vice presidential candidate for the February 2023 general election haven’t abated. They’ve escalated since June 16, 2022, when Tinubu, a Muslim and candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), announced a fellow…
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APC primaries, Tinubu’s victory and tasks ahead – By Ehichioya Ezomon
Only diehard promoters and supporters of other aspirants had predicted defeat for the acclaimed National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, at the presidential primaries and special convention on June 6 to 8, 2022.
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2023: Obi, LP and the Igbo quest for presidency – By Ehichioya Ezomon
Due to the unpredictable scheduling and rescheduling of its congresses and primaries, most Nigerians still doubt the readiness of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to hold its presidential primaries “finally” fixed for June 6 to 8, 2022, in Abuja. The party repeatedly shifted the timelines for its political activities that culminated in the National Convention…
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NASS: Of gender equality, life pension and immunity – By Ehichioya Ezomon
Amidst the ongoing raw politicking for the 2023 general election, it’s apposite to revisit two issues in the 5th Alteration Bill 2022 to the 1999 Constitution: the Bills on Gender Equality, and Life Pension and Immunity for principal officers of the Legislature and Judiciary. In the storm that greeted the amendments, the National Assembly (NASS)…
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APC and issues of free primaries, presidential ‘fraudsters’ – By Ehichioya Ezomon
Barely a week to the primaries of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2023 polls, the intrigues presaging the processes of choosing the presidential candidate linger in the party. Actually, the undercurrents in the APC don’t inspire confidence that the party will conduct free, fair, transparent and credible primaries to pick its standard…
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The Tinubu, Jonathan, Emefiele, Kalu, Adesina, Malami stories – By Ehichioya Ezomon
Nigeria’s absurd political situation is playing out before our eyes in the plethora of presidential aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC) competing for the number one spot in the polity. Lately, the stories involving the aspirants are a mixed bag of the good, the bad and the ugly in the drama-filled processes of the…
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2023 and Jonathan’s hunger for return to power – By Ehichioya Ezomon
As Nigeria races towards the 2023 general election, so is the campaign to drag former President Goodluck Jonathan into the presidential contest that parades a deluge of aspirants.
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Convention over, APC faces test of unity, continuity – By Ehichioya Ezomon
Many polity watchers, and party members, even across the political divide, hold President Muhammadu Buhari as lacking the requisites for politicking, simply on account of his not perceptively involved in “fixing” party members in elective positions. Save for his aspiration to be president, Buhari has been overly un-interfering, and noncommittal in party affairs, and the…
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Edo PDP crisis requires flexibility, compromise to resolve – By Ehichioya Ezomon
The political crisis in the Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) demands that Governor Godwin Obaseki, Deputy Governor Philip Shaibu and their supporters reflect deeply on why and how they defected to the party in June 2020. Needless to dwell on the nitty-gritty of their exit from the All Progressives Congress (APC),…