My friend sent me a WhatsApp chat shortly after President Olusegun Obasanjo announced his endorsement of Mr Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party. “What does the Obasanjo endorsement mean?” he asked. I smiled to myself and replied: “It means he is bored!” Like him or hate him, Obasanjo is a headline maker any day. With him, downtimes …

I’m sure he expected the firestorm. As is his custom, he primed and released it to explode at his own time and season. If the letter by former President Olusegun Obasanjo endorsing Labour Party’s Peter Obi had gone unnoticed, uncriticised, and un-replied, then it would not have been Obasanjo’s letter. The letter had barely landed when the ruling All Progressives …

From time, I had never been excited about General Olusegun Obasanjo’s personality and his letters. I am very conversant with the fact that, besides training in the handling of weapons, military generals are deft contrivers of lies, propaganda, decoy and deception with which they can win wars by simply confusing and creating disaffection across lines even before firing a shot. …

When we see an old woman stop in her dance to point again and again in the same direction, we can be sure that somewhere there something happened long ago which touched the roots of her life – Chinua Achebe Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo will go to his grave in peace. His sins are forgiven for now. He still will not …

On the whole, the latest epistolary misadventure by Chief Olusegun Obasanjo is a gratuitous insult on the collective intelligence of Nigerians. In particular, his laborious attempt to prey on the innocence of much younger generation constitutes a grievous assault on public morality, seeking to force morsels of sheer falsehood down the throats of a demography perhaps too young to comprehend …

The presidential campaign council of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that it was not bothered about former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s endorsement of Labour Party presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi for the 2023 elections. In a New Year letter to Nigerian youth, Obasanjo admonished them“not to be confused nor gullible” in making their choice of a president at the poll …

Nigeria’s first president in the Fourth Republic, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has thrown his weight behind the presidential candidacy of Labour Party’s Mr Peter Obi in the 25th February elections. His endorsement will not come as a shock to many political watchers who had gauged his recent moves and actions. In his New Year letter on Sunday, which he signed and …

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called the attention of the Ogun State Government to the poor condition of a healthcare centre at his ancestral home in the Ibogun-Olaogun area of the Ifo Local Government Area of the state. Obasanjo said that the poor healthcare facility was serving 40 communities in the council, saying it has been overstretched. At the 2022 …

For those who may not know, Atiku Abubakar, Nigeria’s former Vice President, who is now the presidential flagbearer of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), is an extremely organised character. He is a system’s person who is meticulous, painstaking and regulations-compliant. Ask those who know him closely, or have worked with him in the past. Ask Chris Mammah, his former Media …

I was struck by the peculiarity of his name tag on our premiere meeting. The first time I saw such a striking configuration was when I encountered the configuration, PUN OMERUO on the chest of a former military administrator of Kogi State, who I would later serve as Chief Press Secretary. As a student of Literature, I was amazed that …