The south-east almost always places its emotions ahead of rational thinking anytime Biafra or anything that sounds like it is mentioned. Given our history, this emotional attachment is understandable. Yet, we must strive to grow past the traumas and learn how to put things in proper perspective. Truth is that IPOB, just like the politicians they routinely condemn, have, at least in the past few weeks, placed their agenda ahead of the collective interest of the people they claim to be fighting for. No matter how down things come to the wire, you cannot truthfully claim to love a cause…
Author: Chima Christian
Dear MKO, I write to inform you that June 12 has evolved. “From a commemoration observed by scattered bands of devotees, members of the Abiola family, and human rights activists, confined mainly to the South-West,” as Ayo Olukotun carefully worded it, “June 12 has now mutated into a national observance and symbol of nationhood in the same class with other national holidays, totems and identity markers of statehood.” You already know that you have been awarded the highest national honour the Nigerian state could give. It should be a proud moment. Fists should be up in the air, but they…
Nine years ago today, Nigeria lost a great president. Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. Compassionate. Genteel. Unassuming. He was loved. Yar’Adua brought himself to transcend the barriers of ethnicity and religion. He was everything a complex Nigeria needed in a leader. By acknowledging that the election that brought him to power was flawed, and making genuine efforts to improve Nigeria’s electoral process, Yar’Adua truly reflected the virtue of integrity. Paradoxically, one of the greatest tributes paid to late Yar’Adua came from Gov. Adams Oshiomole. Said he in 2010; “In confronting the key challenges of the nation, he demonstrated great statesmanship, which helped to…
The Chairman of Atiku-Obi Presidential Campaign Organization, Anambra State, Mr. Oseloka H. Obaze has called on INEC to make public polling unit results and other materials used for the 2019 presidential election. Obaze, the candidate of the PDP in Anambra 2017 governorship election and the immediate-past Secretary to Anambra State Government, made this call in a statement personally signed and also tweeted by him in Awka on Monday. According to him, it is intriguing that INEC continues to withhold polling unit results and other election materials, long after the presidential election results were announced. He said INEC’s refusal to make the election…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on Nigerians to come out en masse this Saturday to exercise their franchise despite the letdown caused by INEC’s decision to postpone the elections few hours before commencement. The Chairman of Atiku/Obi campaign council in Anambra State, Mr. Oseloka H. Obaze, made this call in Awka over the weekend. Obaze regretted the wider economic implications and opportunity cost of the postponement. He maintained that four years was enough time for INEC to prepare for the elections. According to him, the postponement was a systemic failure on the part of INEC. Obaze who was…
Friday’s re-entry of the former governor of Old Anambra State, Chief Jim Nwobodo into the ranks of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has been praised. The Chairman of the Anambra State Chapter of the Atiku/Obi Presidential Campaign Council, and former gubernatorial candidate of the PDP in the state, Mr Oseloka H. Obaze, lauded the decision, saying Nwobodo‘s coming back to the party adds value. Obaze, who spoke with newsmen shortly after the elder statesman announced his decision to come back to the PDP, said, “Chief Jim Nwobodo‘s entry into PDP is most propitious and adds value to Ohaneze’s recent…