Femi Ojo's Premise

The current situation of our country is best described as a place with no sweetness. The politicians have made a mess of the polity, they have impoverished the masses of Nigerian people…the lives of the majority of our people have been dented by the abysmal governance of those who govern. Indeed, there is no sweetness here! Ours is a country of paradox, we are so blessed yet the majority of our people are in need. We are a special country among the committee of nations and things that make us special are plethora…we are a nation that is made of the good and the bad. This country is arguably characterized with plethora of incredulity. The first batch of 2015 elections have come and currently the results are coming out with expected results and some surprises, the bad politicians are losing, some bad politicians are winning and the near good ones are both winning and losing too…the political characters that will form the next administration are gradually being unveiled. T...

In some days now Nigerian voters will be trooping out in their millions to vote for their preferred candidates in the coming elections. For those politicians who are contesting in the coming elections the hour of opportunity is only a couple of days away to borrow Dr.   Amuta’s lexis.   2015 elections psephologically speaking will be one election in Nigeria’s history that will never be forgotten in a hurry. It is one election that we have seen the most clueless and unideological campaign across major dominating political parties. The fraught rhetoric of the ruling political party and the warmongering swagger of wound-up opposition party are what these coming elections symbolize. The day and hour of political verdict is near for politicians! Just before the elections, Nigerians should ponder on the significance of the political transition about to be taken place. Our people should know that this is yet another opportunity to take back  tomorrow which has been st...

We are yet in another season of politics, a season characterized with political promises and declarations from all manner of political characters and their political parties. This is a season of campaign where politicians speak beautifully with packaged lies in order to sway votes from the electorates. Our dear country Nigeria is paradoxically, a country blessed with such political animals who speak beautifully with branded lies of what they would do if given the opportunity to govern us if they get to power. Their lies are beautifully packaged in such a way that many young, old, women, men and adult sell their gullible souls, bodies and spirits to these politicians. This is a season when politicians speak with forked tongues. I have been following and monitoring political developments and electioneering campaigns across major political parties for long and I have noticed one common vein of beautiful lies that our politicians have continued to dish out to the polity. All of...

Never in our contemporary political history in Nigeria have we seen a strong opposition articulately opposed to the ruling party as we have now. Our polity is currently witnessing a strong oppositional voice against the current President and his party. These oppositional voices are not only from the members of the main opposition political party whose political mantra is “change”. The real opposition to our President and his party is from the collective energy of Nigerians whose aspirational hopes and futures have been put in a state of obscurity and frustrated by the current political class. My assertion above was inspired by my boss, Dr. Chidi Amuta (one of the foremost public intellectuals in Nigeria) while in his office, where I went to pay homage and as usual, first, we got talking on the current political events in Nigeria and subsequently, I got lectured. He was the one who opened my intellectual world about the prevailing abysmal situation of our country and it wa...