Femi Ojo's Premise

Picture courtesy of Google Last week’s visit of President Buhari and his men to the United States of America on the invitation of President Obama was one political significant event in the International Relations that reconfirms Nigeria as a very strategic country and ally in the Africa region.   I am of the opinion that President Buhari’s near-saint image was re-confirmed going by the international testimonials by U.S proximate political actors on the expectations from Nigeria’ current President   perhaps because of   Buhari’s   over-hyped positive image and past   anti-corruption stance. The visit by the President to the White House was timely, at a period when the world’s focus is on Nigeria, observing how the country will be re-engineered and how it will tackle the current economic challenges facing her as a result of the chronic corruption that the former administration bequeathed to the country. Nigeria is currently in a very challenging t...

Picture courtesy of www.nta.ng and Arisenaija Add aption The current drama in the National Assembly especially the boxing contest in the red chamber last week where politicians who supposed to be honorable in the manner in which they carry their legislative functions but who became disparagingly dishonorable by combating themselves like Mike Tyson of this world in a boxing ring, has clearly shown that the ruling party’s political mafia’s family is yet to settle for a mutual political capo. Capo di tutti capi simply connotes in mafia parlance a supreme “godfather” or Italian parlance “boss of all bosses” and it is common knowledge that in mafia world, tensions and internal warfare for supremacy and power to control other members typified this game. One can see similar characteristics in our ruling party looking at the different contradictions that the party has been characterized with in the current post-election period. The outcomes in both chambers of the Nation...

Photo courtesy www.thecable.ng The recent development in our polity is something that has attracted plethora of comments across the country. To be specific the outcomes of the elections of principal officers in the National Assembly where Senator  Olusola Saraki and Rt. Honorable Yakubu Dogara emerged as President and Speaker of both the Senate and House of Representatives alongside with their deputies respectively have shown the nature of what the current ruling party is. A party that rode on the gullibility of many Nigerians and the near-saint image of President Buhari with an over hyped mantra of “change” appears to me from the contemporary political outcomes in the National Assembly as nothing but an hypocritical political party whose internal contradictions and dynamism if not urgently and well-managed can set the party on a gradual political obscurity. The ruling party’s hypocritical enforcement of party supremacy over its individual ambitious member is a thi...

photo courtesy of google There have been many interesting series of theatrics in our polity shortly after the conclusion of 2015 presidential elections.   The incumbent President, in addition to his acceptance of his electoral defeat has systematically displayed his anger and frustration as a result of the unfavorable outcome of these concluded elections in many ways.  The concluding days of President Jonathan’s five years stay as the number one citizen of our country obviously are being characterized with many interesting scenarios, some of these recent happenings are good but for the wrong timing while many of the current happenings in our polity are bad and perhaps this is how Mr. Jonathan wants to punish Nigerians for not voting for him. The first interesting political action of Mr. President after his great political loss and that of his party was the sack of some political appointees who interestingly but disloyally shifted loyalty to the incoming el...