Opinion Corner

Since President Muhammadu Buhari declared an intention to run for a second term after months of speculation, his critics have taken him to the cleaners. There is nothing that has not been said about his intention to contest again. But one big question keeps hanging. Where is the formidable opposition that can stop him at the polls? Perhaps, the All …

I never sought a senatorial seat on the platform of APC. I did on the platform of PDP. In any case, Odion’s story confirms my call for Benin political renaissance. If indeed Oshomhole can influence how a senate seat is occupied in Benin province from Iyamoh, a village in Edo North Senatorial District, it is enough reason to justify the …

As a conscientious Bini man and one, who as Information Commissioner had the privilege of a ringside view of events leading to Oyegun’s coronation as national chair in 2014, this writer does not only feel implicated but also slandered by such false conclusion. As anyone might observe, one has not been shy to be counted among Oyegun’s critics as national …

For Oshiomhole, the Benin people must not be allowed so much national or local political influence in order to prevent them from acquiring the impetus to invoke the power in their superior population in directing the political affairs of the State. Oyegun’s continued stay as National Chairman would mean that the Benin people are gradually gaining political relevance at the …

While the whole world denounces these hunger, poverty, human rights violations, killings of hundreds and thousands, among them children and women, the leaders of today still continue with their misleading propaganda; ‘we are fighting to protect the country.’ In all of these humiliation and intimidation, Dino Melaye is the winner and those persecuting him are the losers for a tormentor …

By Louis Odion, FNGE Abuja disease is a peculiar affliction in Nigerian politics. It refers to the tendency of an actor with otherwise modest endowment or from humble station to transmute to a monstrous creature once he/she enters the nation’s capital and begins to frequent the power circles. Intoxicated by a new false sense of identity, such upstart does not …

The supreme irony of our national tragedy is that we are uniquely blessed with selfish and vain leaders. The gang piloting Nigeria since creation day swarms with conceited and ultra-corrupt leaders who serve the masses rotten pottage in a potty while they gobble “isi ewu” in golden chinaware and down exotic wines in diamond chalice. We’re worse than slaves. We, …

More than any government in our republican history, this government has been the slowest to act on matters that require urgent government attention. It cannot continue like this merely because a few privileged people have formed a vanguard of blame-him-not around President Buhari. They are definitely not helping Nigeria but themselves. Let me remind all such persons of the proverb …

By Osaze Edigin The business of representation and lawmaking is too expensive to be left in the hands of those who know nothing more than self, political leaders and the governor’s agenda actualization. Activists over the years have left their core place in an arm of government which is the legislature to charlatans and political jobbers, the legislature is a …

By Louis Odion, FNGE It was typical of punctilious Godwin Obaseki to assume that mere appeal to reason – this pious invocation of the spirit of good neighborliness – would be enough to rein in the Barbarians arriving Edo’s ancient gate. But as he seemed to have realized with regret at the weekend after yet another hand-wringing visitation to the …