Opinion

Given my preceding accreditation as a Domestic Electoral Observer by the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC), I took an early trip on Saturday 23rd February to a particular polling unit in Lagos, South-west Nigeria, to observe the rescheduled Presidential, senatorial and the...

The military is a disciplined institution with a command structure that brooks no disrespect for constituted authorities. Hence the tendency by the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai to be finicky in dealing with any directive...

Lagos State gubernatorial election is in the air.  The two major parties, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC), are jostling for the soul of the state.  It is very imperative that the good people of the...

Just like many Nigerians, I was initially pissed off by the eleventh hour decision taken by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to postpone the presidential and national assembly election scheduled to hold countrywide last Saturday. Millions of Nigerians...

Will an election conducted under‎ the cumulus of suspicion, doubt and allegations against the umpire of the exercise be accepted by most Nigerians? Do Nigerians still believe in the integrity of INEC‎? Is the commission still that fearless, dispassionate and...

Fawa biu tana bata hankali'n kuda...rana bata karya sai dai uwar diya ta ji kunya... (Two pieces of meat confuse the mind of the fly...once a date has been set for an event, it will arrive, and time does...

On April 2, 2011, INEC shifted the national assembly election by seven days (to April 9), citing "logistics and operational" problems. And it took this decision while voting had already commenced in some parts of the country. Really, what happened...

"Should Buhari win, we as citizens must be prepared for two things. The first should be to stretch the great endurance for which we are known. The power centres within the Buhari presidency would assert themselves more ferociously, with...

Election is the recruitment of persons the largest percentage of the electorate feels are capable of actualizing their imaginings of an ideal nation. Nigerians elect their leaders every four years and the time is here. Parties are campaigning; candidates...

I begin this piece with this Biblical quote: Esther 6: 13: "And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every thing that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai...