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My Random Thoughts On Abia As We Journey Towards 2023 – Part 1 By Umeh Kalu (SAN)

My Random Thoughts On Abia As We Journey Towards 2023 – Part 1 By Umeh Kalu (SAN)

Expectedly, there has been an upbeat or more of a frenzy in political activities in Abia State in the last ten (10) months. The crescendo will continue to increase as we advance towards the 2023 general elections. The elements of these flurry of political activities can be seen in the reactivation of old political blocs and setting up of new ones. The social media has been denied the relative peace and decorum it enjoyed in the past via the setting up of allied WhatsApp groups, Twitter and Facebook accounts along Party, religious, ethnic and even professional divides. Conmen and fraudsters…
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The Power Of One Vote By Charles Okhai

The Power Of One Vote By Charles Okhai

People often underestimate the power of their individual vote during elections. Most people have the errornous believe that it is a good volume of votes is what secures victory in an election, but always fail to consider the fact that just one vote can make a whole lot of difference in an election.With this ignoramus attitude, important elections have been lost severally to the wrong candidates. Think about it, even the volumes of votes come only on the accumulation of one vote. History is replete with elections won just on the power of a single vote. In 1654, just one…
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South East Presidency: The Incalculable Damage Done By Igbo Delegates, But Where Is The Justice? By Ifeanyi Okali

South East Presidency: The Incalculable Damage Done By Igbo Delegates, But Where Is The Justice? By Ifeanyi Okali

The just concluded special conventions of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, All Progressives Congress APC and indeed that of other political parties did not end without a sour taste in the lips of many Igbo patriots. While some were left highly disappointed, others have totally surrendered to fate on whatever becomes of the position of Ndigbo in the project Nigeria. The popular belief that the Igbos don't support themselves openly played out with the voting choices of PDP and APC delegates from the South-East region of the country. From the results of both presidential primaries, we saw how the Igbo…
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Five key takeaways from APC presidential convention by Farooq Kperogi

Five key takeaways from APC presidential convention by Farooq Kperogi

I was fed up with the unendingly immature political melodrama and indiscipline of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential primary and national convention on June 7, which spilled over to June 8, but here are five key takeaways from it. 1. It exposed the inner circle of the Muhammadu Buhari regime as a weak, nerveless, internally incoherent, and disorganised junto. For years, Buhari’s inner circle, also known as the Aso Rock cabal, was united in its common resentment of Bola Ahmed Tinubu and its determination to scupper his bid for the APC presidential nomination, but it had neither the strategy…
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OPINION: Now That Tinubu Has Come Onboard, What Next? By Ikechukwu Iroha

OPINION: Now That Tinubu Has Come Onboard, What Next? By Ikechukwu Iroha

It's no longer news that Ahmed Tinubu has clinched the coveted APC Presidential ticket against all odds. He was able to maneuver several banana peels set by his close allies and foes alike. Tinubu's political sagacity is way beyond our media permutations. Many has attributed Jagaban's spread to his goodwill over the years, which only paved way for many of his sons to reciprocate his kind gestures. Obviously, President Buhari didn't see it coming. I took greater part of the night watching his facial expression, which weren't anything short of acrimony. But, Buhari had a debt to pay. His hands…
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Otisi Ebitu Ukiwe: It’s About Time By Peter Agba Kalu

Otisi Ebitu Ukiwe: It’s About Time By Peter Agba Kalu

There's a burden most children of super great men always lived with, living behind the shadow of their fathers. Always been introduced as the son of this and that without really knowing the quality they are made of or the content of their characters. That was the burden that forced our great leader evergreen in our memory Chief Emeka Odinegwu Ojukwu the great Ikemba of Nnewi to do the unthinkable, by abandoning the business of his father Philip Ojukwu, who was the richest man in Africa then to join the Nigerian Army. To the world then he rebelled, but to…
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OPINION: Atiku’s Victory And The Supremacy Of The North By Doyin Okupe

OPINION: Atiku’s Victory And The Supremacy Of The North By Doyin Okupe

Atiku won the PDP Presidential Primaries on Saturday the 28th of May 2023. But the assurance of the victory was concluded some 24hrs before the delegates elections. The main challenger Nyesom Wike had nearly over ran the whole country with massive deployment of resources and had actually overtaken the Crown Prince himself. Prior to the advent of the primaries ,the North had taken a pre emptive strike by installing a loyalist as the National chairman with ready acquiescence of pdp Southern leaders who believed naively that with that arrangement in place, a southern Presidential candidate was a certainty. The only…
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OPINION: FIRS, The New Number One Cash Cow By Mahmud Jega

OPINION: FIRS, The New Number One Cash Cow By Mahmud Jega

There has been a silent change of baton at the cash inflow pipeline into the Federation Account, the proverbial national cake. For decades the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation [NNPC] held sway as the top national cash cow. Since last year, the oil giant’s contribution to the Federation Account has dwindled to zero, no thanks to the N4 trillion annual subsidy bill which it shoulders on behalf of government. Non-oil sources have since become the Federation Account’s mainstay. Four sources, Federal Inland Revenue Service [FIRS], Nigeria Customs Service, Department of Petroleum Resources and Ministry of Solid Minerals now generate most of…
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Matawalle: The Destined Political Messiah Of Zamfara By Yusuf Idris Gusau

Matawalle: The Destined Political Messiah Of Zamfara By Yusuf Idris Gusau

There was apparent sigh of relief within the rank of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) following the decision of the former governor Abdulaziz Yari to embrace peace and work forf the party's success in 2023. Pictures of Governor Bello Mohammed Matawalle and former governor Yari both in smiles and shaking hands at the party national headquarters in Abuja, which went viral on social media were balms that soothed a lot of hearts across the state and beyond. Before the national headquarters incident, pictures of the two leaders also in smiles appeared a night earlier with the national chairman of…
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Orji Kalu’s withdrawal from 2023 presidential race and lessons on scarcity of loyalty among Nigerian politicians by Kolawole Idowu

Orji Kalu’s withdrawal from 2023 presidential race and lessons on scarcity of loyalty among Nigerian politicians by Kolawole Idowu

The news of Senator Orji Uzor Kalu’s withdrawal from the 2023 presidential race is now old and embedded in Nigeria’s memory. The Senate Chief Whip who is the highest political office holder in Igboland under the Buhari Administration, said he resigned in order to support his immediate boss who is angling for Nigeria’s number one political position. The lesson from Orji Kalu’s U-turn disposition must be seen in a different light, particularly at a time where Nigerians pay very little attention to the principles of humanity such as friendship, trust, patience, commitment and sacrifice. Senator Orji Uzor Kalu even in…
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