The hullaballoo that attended the election of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the vicious agitation that has trailed it ever since have kept me wondering whether there is anything to the Tinubu election that was absent in the elections before it. When they allege rigging, previous elections have been rigged; even more scandalously, more blatantly and more brazenly. For instance, …

A public affairs commentator, Reno Omokri has disclosed that the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu started preparing for his 2023 presidential victory since 1998. Omokri said Tinubu ensured that some of his allies are appointed to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Court of Appeal, among others. He pointed out that Tinubu facilitated the emergence of Ahmed Lawan as Senate President …

Ahead of the 29th May inauguration of President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Assistant Commissioner of Police Usman Shugaba has been appointed as his Chief Personal Security Officer. Until his appointment, Shugaba was the Aide-De-Camp (ADC) to the First Lady, Hajia Aisha Buhari He was a former ADC to former Inspector General of Police M. D. Abubakar; Late Nasarawa State Governor, …

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State and his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike paid a courtesy visit to the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, at the Defence House on Friday. The development came two months after the former Lagos State governor, whom they both supported, was declared the winner of the presidential election. Shortly after their arrival, the duo had a …

Seven states of the federation that approached the Supreme Court to nullify the election victory of the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have withdrawn their suit. The states – Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo, Taraba, and Sokoto State – on Friday, filed a notice of discontinuance of the case through their team of …

With just a day to the presidential election, youths in Lagos State have come under a single umbrella to reiterate their support for the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Tinubu, they submitted, is the most experienced and reliable candidate to lead the country in the next dispensation. The youths, who came from all the traditional divisions …

As a journalist during the military dictatorship and the period thereafter, I had the rare and distinct honour, exposure and privilege to interview and interact – singly or collectively – with the four leading presidential candidates in the 2023 general elections in Nigeria. They are Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives …

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has disowned a statement on social media linking him to the endorsement of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The social media post also purportedly indicated that the elder statesman described the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo in …

Even before Nigeria’s charismatic former Vice President and presidential flagbearer of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) won the ticket as the party’s candidate for the 25 February election, I had always been an established Atiku aficionado. Last April, I was contacted by a non-governmental organisation to function as Senior Resource Person, for a six-week assignment, in a “Situation Room”. Our …

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Tuesday in Ilorin charged the people of Kwara State to vote for him and the candidates of the party in this year’s general elections in order to cement the freedom from exploitation, which he said they achieved four years ago. Tinubu and his entourage virtually shut …