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Kukah Blames Civil Society for Nigeria s Present Situation

Michael Olugbode in Abuja The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Revd (Dr) Matthew Hassan Kukah, has blamed the civil society for the country’s current situation, saying it would not have arisen had they not gone to bed early after the country returned to civil rule. Kukah, however, said it was the situation that allowed the room for charlatans in power. “The civil society, which paraded men like Olisa Agbakoba, the late Beko Ransome-Kuti, Clement Nwankwo, Chidi Odinkalu and others, went to bed after it succeeded in ushering democracy in the country and allowed the kind of characters we now have in government in the country whom with their misrule have brought Nigeria to a near precipice,” he said.

The wrong nomination of Onochie

Lauretta Onochie Beyond all reasonable doubt, Lauretta Onochie, senior special assistant (New Media) to President Muhammadu Buhari since October 2016 should never have been nominated at all as a commissioner in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). It is just as well that the Senate has rejected Onochie’s nomination. The Constitution, in the Third Schedule, Part1 (F) (14(1) (b) requires a member of the commission to “be non-partisan and a person of unquestionable integrity.” This is a weighty consideration incompatible with desperation, which is never in the character of an integrated person. Onochie’s candidacy was simply a misnomination. Onochie, in her role as an officer in the office of the President from where the best social examples should flow, has evidentially proven herself to be a bit too controversial. In December 2016 when she was barely two months in her new job, she released on the social media a statement against a state governor that was n

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