So much song and dance over the APC’s Presidential Campaign Council, by Rotimi Fasan
It is not quite clear if the ruling All Progressives Congress party has indeed withdrawn the membership list of its Presidential Campaign Council for the January 16, 2027 elections. What is not in doubt is that the list has run into a storm of criticism in which certain members of the opposition parties have taken the lead. […]
The ADC babel is falling apart, by Rotimi Fasan
In less than six weeks from now, precisely at the end of May, the various political parties jostling to unseat the governing APC-led administration would have produced their presidential candidates. May, going by the timeline provided by INEC, is the cutoff date for the parties to hold their primaries. Then the crowded field of presidential aspirants […]
The NBA’s hypocrisy, by Rotimi Fasan
When Mazi Afam Osigwe signed off on a press release in the name of the Nigerian Bar Association some days ago, he would appear to have spoken not only the mind of many Nigerians but also as an impartial arbiter. As the president of the Nigerian Bar Association, there is perhaps no other Nigerian better placed […]
The ADC crisis, by Rotimi Fasan
The ongoing leadership crisis in the African Democratic Congress was a disaster everyone who is a Nigerian saw coming. Everyone except those bent on reaping where they had neither sown nor watered. Some members of the party in fact read the writing on the wall and gave the impression they were prepared for any eventuality. They […]
Politics, terror and insecurity in the Middle Belt, by Rotimi Fasan
It has frequently happened across different parts of the North that new reports of similar incidents are simply being treated as pieces of information to be noted for whatever it is worth by whoever finds it useful while life goes on in the rest of the country. But cases of terrorists’ attacks are not mere incidents […]
Politics and its disguises, by Rotimi Fasan
Nigerians spent last weekend celebrating Eid el Fitri. As is to be expected in these times of heightened political activities, ahead of the party primaries and the emergence of candidates for various positions in next year’s general election, Nigerian politicians, it is emerging, used the period to strategise for the battles ahead. Religious festivals, conferment of […]
