Tag: Samuel Orovwuje
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Election bureaucracies, Office of the Citizens and the future of democracy in Nigeria – By Samuel Orovwuje
For the first time in two decades, young Nigerians came out in droves to elect a new government. They were at the forefront of a critical mass rising up against treacherous politicians and their collaborators.
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Office of the Citizen: Beyond ritualised incantations and political campaigns – By Samuel Orovwuje
Political campaigns kicked off a few days ago to sell political parties’ manifestoes and their candidates to the Nigerian people. Expectedly, blaring and discordant debates will be taking place across the country with intentional lies to gain resonance with the splintered electorate while a consolidated generalised atmosphere of capacity and competence to fix Nigeria will…
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OPINION: Nigeria 2023 General Elections and Lessons from Kenya
Kenya, the East Africa’s most populous country, gained its flag independence from her imperial majesty of Great Britain in 1963 and Nigeria in 1960. The colonial legacy of the divide and rule politics that has characterised Nigeria elections also took root in Kenya, often giving rise to conservative leadership, which appears populist in outlook, but…