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Kwankwaso: NNPP, PDP, any which way? By Adnan Mukhtar Tudunwada
Kwankwaso: NNPP, PDP, any which way? By Adnan Mukhtar Tudunwada
By Adnan Mukhtar Tudunwada It’s no longer news that a former governor of Kano Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, is on his way to joining the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP. The former governor, who hinted this to BBC Hausa on Thursday, said that arrangements were in place to defect to the new party. The NNPP had on Thursday dissolved all members of the National Working Committee, State, Local and…
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Nigerians Seek a Third Force in Ahead of 2023 Elections
Nigerians Seek a Third Force in Ahead of 2023 Elections
Some Nigerians have voiced lack of trust in the two most popular political parties in Nigeria ahead of the 2023 general elections, which has taken center stage in public conversation! The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Recall that the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has been in power in the fourth republic since February 29, 1999, when it won the…
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WILLIE FRAZER : SANCTIMONY AND HYPOCRISY
Willie Frazer (armed and dangerous)
DUP’s Nigel “Deputy Dog” Dodds speaking out on behalf of Willie Frazer in the House of Commons
With many thanks to the: James Connolly Association, Australia for the original posting
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I see a new Nigeria in the hands of God – Obasanjo — AdeLove.com|Best Nigerian Blog Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says he has seen a “new Nigeria in the hands of God”. Obasanjo said this on Thursday when he registered as a member of the Coalition for Nigeria Movement (CNM).
Obasanjo’s coalition of disgruntled politicians
New Post has been published on http://blueprint.ng/obasanjos-coalition-of-disgruntled-politicians/
Obasanjo’s coalition of disgruntled politicians
Anwar el-Sadat, a former Egyptian leader, was a staunch ally of the United States in the search for peace in the Middle East. This alliance with America made him very unpopular at home, especially with radical elements. He was assassinated in a spectacular fashion by fundamentalist army officers on October 6, 1981.
The assassination of Sadat jolted the establishment in Washington DC, who saw it as a moral obligation on their part to honour his memory by attending the funeral in Cairo. For security reasons, America’s then sitting President, Ronald Reagan, could not attend Sadat’s funeral.
He, however, summoned the then three surviving former presidents, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, to represent America and its people at the funeral. It was an historic convergence of former presidents, albeit of different political persuasions, at the White House on October 8, 1981, and the journey to the Middle East was not at the best of times.
I was so moved by what I saw on television, “the trinity of former presidents”, prompting me to write an article in which I praised the “unanimity of purpose” of Americans when it comes to the defence or projection of their national interest. I compared Reagan’s invitation of three former presidents to the execution for corruption of three former Ghanaian leaders, Ignatius Acheampong, Fred Akuffo, and Akwasi Afrifa, by Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings on June 26, 1979.
When it comes to the matter of national interest, there are not many nations of the world that are more united and purposeful than America. Americans believe in their democratic heritage and assumption of pre-eminence in world politics. Even when an individual they might not have supported in an election was being sworn in as President, one could see how easily the political leadership closes ranks and celebrates “Inauguration Day” together.
It is very rare for a former president to criticise a sitting president of the US in public. Veiled references could be made here and there, but there is something akin to a convention that the nation’s Head of Government and Head of State must be accorded the dignity deserving of their office. Our former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s periodic letters “chastising” sitting presidents, letters he had become accustomed to, would be regarded as something of an aberration in the context of America’s political ethos.
Of course, Obasanjo always spoke what honest Nigerians would consider to be “home truths” in his many epistles. The last letter to President Muhammadu Buhari was spot on. However, if Obasanjo was not up to something, he could have sought an audience with Buhari for a private lecture on governance in a multi-ethnic and multi-religious society that Nigeria is. The fact that Obasanjo’s letter was not limited to the state of the nation, but was an opportunity to make a clarion call for a Coalition for Nigeria Movement that could eventually challenge established political parties for power suggests he might have had a preconceived personal agenda of some sort.
Obasanjo’s coalition movement has been launched, with some corrupt and discredited politicians in conspicuous attendance. There was hardly any doubt that the coalition movement would register membership in a nation where many are more interested in profiting from politics than doing good for society and posterity.
One would have been mightily impressed and supportive if what our former President was advocating was a watchdog group for democracy and good government. One effective watchdog group worth understudying is Common Cause, established by an American politician in 1970, that now has chapters in 35 states of the American federation. Membership is by subscription. With more than 12 months to the 2019 presidential election in Nigeria, the ball is in the court of Buhari and his All Progressives Congress.
If the issues highlighted by Obasanjo were taken in good faith, Buhari could be reaping some blessings. The stigma of sectionalism has been the major contradiction in Buhari’s otherwise acknowledged patriotism. If he can honestly reflect upon that, the power of incumbency suggests he has time on his side to bring smiles to many faces and redirect the course of public opinion in his favour. Those who have chosen to be his adversaries may never be impressed by anything he does and would wish he failed, but the majority of Nigerians are fair-minded individuals who wish for a better society for themselves and generations yet unborn.
Obasanjo is generally assumed to be fiercely patriotic but there is something about him that should be of intense interest to psychologists. His critics say he rubbishes every neighbour of his who stands tall in history, Obafemi Awolowo and Moshood Abiola for instance. They say he ends up disagreeing with everyone he had once supported, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari for instance. They also say that the political party, the PDP, that made him elected president in two elections would rather be rubbished than reformed by him. Not many would want to be part of his “collusion” for Nigeria Movement, lest the outcome is the very opposite of what was projected!
Dr Akinola, the author of Party Coalitions in Nigeria, is based in London.
New coalition launched to challenge PDP, APC
Hundreds of people, yesterday, trooped to the Yar Adua Centre in Abuja, for the official launch of what was supposed to be former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s ‘Coalition for Nigeria Movement’, known also as the Third Force. Obasanjo, in a letter highly critical of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government, a week ago, had asked: “If neither the All Progressives Congress (APC) nor the…
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Benedict Peters Denies Funding Political Movement By Modupe Gbadeyanka Business mogul, Mr Benedict Peters, has refuted claims that he is the main financial of a new political movement in Nigeria called the Third Force.