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Southern governors’ gratuitous blackmail on 2023 presidency By Thu Jul 08 2021 If proof was ever needed that our political elite have learnt nothing from our political travails as a country, the outcome of the meeting of the 17 Southern governors in Lagos on Monday, July 5, 2021, was a stone cold affirmation of it. Rising from a five-hour conclave, the governors were in their usual petulant, grumpy, tantrum best; reeling out a laundry list of ultimatums on burning issues in the country ranging from insecurity, open grazing, the just passed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) to the grandfather of...

Yakasai noted that despite the huge national resources committed to that election, it was surprising that the election was annulled.

From facts, the presidential election was held on the said date, the first since the 1983 military coup ended the country's Second Republic. This was a transitional process from military rule to civilian rule.

Secession threat as a tool of blackmail By Fri May 07 2021 Since at least the early 90s, and in reaction to the military’s apparent foot-dragging to restore democracy in Nigeria then, clamour for secession has always been used as a tool of political blackmail against the Northern Nigerian political establishment. It’s widely assumed that Northern Nigeria’s particular commitment to a united Nigeria is purely for economic reasons, as it’s believed that the region is economically unviable without the regular statutory allocation from the proceeds of crude oil resources from the Southern ...

•How Nigeria surmounted 1953, 1963, 1973, 1983, 1993, 2003, 2013 hurdles By Clifford Ndujihe, Politics Editor GOING by the calendar of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the 2023 presidential election is exactly 671 days away. On October 15, INEC National Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, announced February 18, 2023 as the date for the 2023 presidential contest. He made the disclosure at the inauguration of the House of Representatives committee on 1999 constitution review. Since the date was fixed the polity has been charged as hordes of presidential contenders and pret...