Femi Ojo's Premise

President Buhari.  Picture courtesy of Getty Images Picture courtesy of Google Nigeria is such a country of paradox, we are richly endowed yet nearly half of our population swim in paucity.   Our case is such a collectives of distinctive miseries. An oceanic country of avoidable privation and at the same time a land full of great assets in both human capital and conservational supplies. Our case is like an overfloggged matter by clique of levelheaded solons but whose condition remains unyielding to tenacities.   For a long period, I almost concluded that Nigeria’s many maladies have been overfloggged but recently, I had a paradigm shift from this over flog theorem and peep the country’s façade in another perspective and rescinded that there is no way we can over flog some of the strategic issues that have defied solution especially on some of the unfortunate indices that have plunged nearly half of Nigerians into the ocean of poverty.   And I have ...

  In the growing catalogue of Nigerian states that are in romance with poverty and near collapse of infrastructural development, Oyo state, where I come from occupies a conspicuous position especially in the contemporary epoch.   And that was why when the outcomes of the recently concluded gubernatorial elections came in a punitive way against the incumbent governor and his party, it was no surprise to few of us who were not deluded about the deceitful hype by the Ajimobi’s government on good governance and performance. The candidate of the PDP, Mr., Seyi Makinde did not win the election because he was the best candidate or he had the best ideology nor the umbrella party under which he contested had a clear cut ideology on governance but he won because the electorates in Oyo State were determined to put a halt to Ajimobi’s egoistic tendencies and continued relevance in Oyo politics. For some of us who were greatly worried about how governance under the current admin...

FOR  MAKINDE MUST SUCCEED... FEMI OJO   In the growing catalogue of Nigerian states that are in romance with poverty and near collapse of infrastructural development, Oyo state, where I come from occupies a conspicuous position especially in the contemporary epoch.   And that was why when the outcomes of the recently concluded gubernatorial elections came in a punitive way against the incumbent governor and his party, it was no surprise to few of us who were not deluded about the deceitful hype by the Ajimobi’s government on good governance and performance. The candidate of the PDP, Mr., Seyi Makinde did not win the election because he was the best candidate or he had the best ideology nor the umbrella party under which he contested had a clear cut ideology on governance but he won because the electorates in Oyo State were determined to put a halt to Ajimobi’s egoistic tendencies and continued relevance in Oyo politics. For some of us who were greatly worried ...