Opinion

OPINION: WHY PDP THINKS IT CAN WIN OSUN

Basking in the euphoria of gaining and sustaining the upper hand in Ekiti with its decimation of the support base of the loud but ineffective All Progressives Congress (APC), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been strutting around like...

OPINION: TINUBU IS NOT AREGBESOLA’S ONLY ALBATROSS

A lot of permutations are flying around concerning the likely outcome of the forthcoming gubernatorial election that will take place on August 9, 2014 in the State of Osun. As a proud son of Osun, it is my duty...

OPINION: TINUBU, OONI AND THE LOOMING SHOWDOWN IN OSUN

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When the former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, took on a generation of Yoruba Obas, and called them – of all things – worthless, he must have thought little of the consequences of his statement. Tinubu’s statement...

OPINION: RIVERS PFN: THOSE CREATING DIVISION AND QUESTIONS THEY SHOULD ANSWER (1)

In my earlier treatise entitled: “PFN Rivers: Choosing and Changing Leaders – Whither bound?” l emphasized the evil of few misguided Rivers indigenous ministers to settle internal issues by taking the leadership of PFN in Rivers State to court...

OPINION: LETTER TO CHIBOK ABDUCTED GIRLS

On the night of 14–15 April 2014, a group of militants attacked your school (Government Girls Secondary School) in Chibok community and took over 200 of you away from the reach of your parents and loved one’s. You were taken...

OPINION: EDO POLITICS, IZE-IYAMU AND OSHIOMHOLE’S FIXATION

These days, it is difficult to listen to the Comrade Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole, for a minute without hearing him mention the name, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu. It does not matter where the governor is speaking from, who...

OPINION: UMARU DIKKO: DIPLOMATIC BAGGAGE, MILLIONAIRE CRATE-MAN AND NIGERIA

This week, I will tie my admonition for this column with the story of Ghandi… When Gandhi was studying law at the University College of London, a professor, whose last name was Peters, disliked him intensely and always displayed prejudice...

OPINION: REVEALED: THE SECRET BEHIND FAYOSE’S EMERGENCE AS PDP GOVERNORSHIP CANDIDATE FOR EKITI

There is no doubt that, the Governor-elect in Ekiti State, Chief Ayodele Peter Fayose is the man of the moment! Throughout last week, all the national dailies published news, editorial, articles, advertorials and features either favorable or unfavorable about...

OPINION: DEATH OF CHIEF M.K.O ABIOLA AND THE PROJECT NIGERIA

How would Nigeria have been today if the Late Chief M.K.O Abiola had ruled Nigeria? What progress would have been recorded in Nigeria if Chief M.K.O Abiola had ruled Nigeria? If June 12,1993 presidential elections had not been annulled,...

OPINION: HISTORY WILL BE ON TINUBU’S SIDE

“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past…” Karl Marx Good people are hard to...