Femi Ojo's Premise

In a matter of months the good people of Ekiti will have another golden opportunity (an opportunity that only presents itself after every four years in our clime) to choose between consolidation of executive rascality through crony and discontinuation of an appetitive style of governance, a form of political economy style propagated and popularized by the current governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose and his political associates since the beginning of his second term in 2014. The matter that is therefore before the people of Ekiti home and abroad is clearly either to consolidate or end Fayose’s brigandage politics through his new crony. Simply put, Ekiti people in July 2018 will be confronted with polimetrix probability whose political outcomes will be one over two….Ekiti will either consolidate Fayose’s despair politics or terminate Fayose’s bleakness in the coming gubernatorial elections. That is exactly what the political outcomes in Ekiti is going to look like s...

What is the Policy Thrust of President Buhari’s Administration?   The year ending 2015 is very significant in the political economy of Nigeria. This is a year where the “transformers” lost elections to the “changers”. The period before the elections was coloured with many political dramas and our polity was over flogged with the hype of ‘change’ mantra. The transformers got dislodged from political power due to her inability to deliver good dividends of democracy, so the sixteen years of misrule of the transformers was broken by those who hyped the hope of change. At last, our polity has a new breath of change.   Millions of eyes glued to the television and internet across the world, monitoring the elections results as they were being released.   That moment was hard, time was moving slowly with GMB leading while Jonathan was trailing behind with hope. Yes! At last President Buhari won. But before the official announcement of the election results, Jonathan sw...