Opinions

The unanimous vote by the ongoing National Conference to create 18 new states is totally unjustified and irrational in the present circumstances and therefore cannot be said to be in the national interest. The measure is borne out of greed and political expediency and would only further increase the already high cost of governance, which […]

For a people in search of a meaningful national identity, I worry when we miss any opportunity – no matter how insignificant – to solidify the bonds of nationhood. Undoubtedly, those who have appropriated political power and those who have had the privilege of overseeing the affairs of the country have been our greatest undoing. […]

Following the recent Ekiti Gubernatorial Election in which the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Governor Kayode Fayemi— despite having the advantage of incumbency — lost to the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), some troubling news have filtered out of Osun State where the next gubernatorial election will hold on August 9, […]

Within a space of two weeks, and apparently flowing from the fact that the All Progressives Congress (APC) was roundly trounced in the Ekiti State Gubernatorial elections, there has been an upping in the loud cry coming from the party’s big wigs for a resort to the ways of the jungle, further accentuating the tendency […]

Since the “BringBackOurGirls” protests started after we learnt that about 276 girls were abducted by the radical Islamic group called Boko Haram on April 14th, 2014, there is nothing that many commentators have not compared President Goodluck Jonathan to in this trial period of our history as a nation.  There has been what I perceive […]

The federal government’s decision to pay a whopping $1.2 million to a Washington DC-based public relations firm, Levick, to launder its image and change the Boko Haram narrative in the aftermath of the international condemnation that trailed its belated response to the kidnapping of 234 schoolgirls from Chibok, is an ignominious and reprehensible act of […]

I write this article from my personal point of view without affixing it to any political, social or governmental platforms. However, when one is known as a Zikist, you could see a similitude where he happens to be former party chairman or an aspirant for political positions.  EKITI Jaws are dropping, people are shocked and […]

I have had to remain quiet about the continuing efforts by Nigeria’s military, police and investigators to find the girls kidnapped in April from the town of Chibok by the terrorist group Boko Haram. I am deeply concerned, however, that my silence as we work to accomplish the task at hand is being misused by […]

Very recently, precisely on June 23, 2014, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode (FFK), a one-time Minister of Aviation during the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidency published an article titled “Ekiti– some hard lessons for APC”, where he congratulated the People’s Democratic Party and its candidate, Mr Ayodele Fayose over the party’s success in the just concluded gubernatorial elections in […]

As the curtain closed on what unarguably was a dress rehearsal for the 2015 general election, the outcome of the gubernatorial election that saw Ayo Fayose of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) defeat incumbent Governor Kayode Fayemi of the opposition All Progressive Congress (APC), one major concern was what the change of baton portended for […]

The elections in Ekiti has come and peacefully gone, but there are some certain reverberations from it and possibly lessons to learn from the elections. But one thing you want to do as the losing party from the polls in Ekiti, is to just take it on the chin and quickly move on to the […]

There  are three things that Ayo Fayose told me during a lively and prolonged discussion in my hotel suite at the Ideal Nest Hotel in Osogbo, Osun state a few months ago.  The first was that I would eventually leave the APC and that the reason that I hadn’t left at that time was because […]