The last may not have been heard about the jaw- dropping performance of the Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the presidential and National Assembly elections in the state where the PDP candidates were declared winners of all the
As a reporter in Kaduna in 2011, I escaped being attacked by mere whiskers. But not many Yoruba people were that lucky. Our sin was that the average Hausa person rightly or wrongly believed then that the refusal of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu
When the American comedian, Groucho Marx, defined politics as “the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies’, he may not have had Nigeria in mind. However, his definition of politics aptly describes our present
Fraternal Greetings, Your Excellency. Surely and steadily, the crucial election to seal your political fate is around the corner; just a few weeks away. So, I understand your anguish and frustration. I know that under the circumstances, you will seek to do everything
Today, I want to revisit the certificate forgery matter of Governor Ademola Adeleke so as to let Nigerians know that there is a plethora of cases around the issue. But before I proceed, let me digress a bit. By my nature, I discuss,
In 2018, I made a case for having me elected as governor of Kwara state, why Kwarans should choose me as their next Governor – this was at a period when Kwarans were vociferously demanding change from years of waste and decadence as
I listened to what Mallam Lanre Onilu said during a radio interview last week and it was good I did. The issues raised were what must concern every Kwaran, as we look forward to picking the next helmsman for our dear state. I
1. Nothing was wrong with the BVAS machines but with the INEC server as against the erroneous holding of the tribunal chairman. 2. Accreditation was by BVAS machines concurrently with the voters’ registers. BVAS machines, voters register and the forms were what were
When in August 2022, I announced to the whole world that in Osun, my Principal, Adegboyega Oyetola, did not lose the July 16 Governorship election, but only lost the vote counting, some Nigerians, especially sympathizers of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, were furious.
Barring any die-minute change, the parties to the governorship election litigation will adopt their final written addresses at the Osun state Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, tomorrow, Friday, January 13. Since 1999, outcomes of Election Petition Tribunal sittings have in no small way helped to deepen
