Issues in Oshiomhole’s Presidential Declaration
By Erasmus Ikhide For the first time, Comrade Adams Aliu Oshiomhole took my advice to contest the presidency of Nigeria instead of localising himself and […]
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2023 Edo North Senatorial Race: Resisting Oshiomhole (Part 2)
By Erasmus Ikhide At the moment, Edo North Senatorial sweepstakes is on the boil, courtesy of Mr. Adams Oshiomhole who chose to become a leader […]
2023: Oshiomhole, ethnicity and Edo North Senatorial race (1)
By Erasmus Ikhide I resisted the temptation to be surprised when I read that Mr. Adams Oshiomhole has declared his intention to run for Edo […]
2023 election: Oshiomhole declares for Senate
By George Edomwonyi Former Governor of Edo, Adams Oshiomhole, has declared his intention to contest under the All Progressives Congress (APC) to represent the people […]
APC Chairmanship: Don’t repeat Buhari’s mistake in anointing Oshiomhole, Yari warns
By Haruna Salami A Chairmanship aspirant of the All Progressive Congress, APC Abdulaziz Yari has warned that the party should not repeat the mistake of […]
My 61st Birthday Reflections, By Tony Iyare
Happenings in these states of the federation have always been dear to my heart. Lagos, Edo, Ogun, Osun, Kaduna, Plateau, Adamawa and Taraba. In a […]
Narrow Politics and Questions of Democratic Development
By Salihu Moh. LukmanProgressive Governors ForumAbuja The American journalist and historian, Anne Applebaum, in the book, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism, stressed […]
Nigerian Politics and Fallacy of PDP – APC Semblance, By Salihu Moh. Lukman
Partisan Problem of One-Dimensional Politics In his recent book, Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics and the Fight for Better Future, the American economists, Paul Krugman […]
Oshiomhole, Keyamo in war of words amid rumblings in APC
By Danlami Nmodu Amid rumblings within the ruling All Progressives Congress,APC after the Supreme Court’s ruling affirming Governor Rotimi Akeredolu’s election, two key members of […]
Oshiomhole to APC members: Have confidence in our party, keep faith with country
The immediate past National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Comrade Adams Oshiomhole on Sunday June 13, 2021 appealed to the party faithful in […]
Oshiomhole mourns ex-Edo SSG, Imuekemhe
A former Governor of Edo, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, on Thursday, expressed shock over the death of a former Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Dr […]
Edo Polls; Witness to democratic renaissance, By Issa Aremu
Doing my usual walk out from my GRA accommodation along Giwa-Amu Street off Airport road in Benin after Salat al-fajr: dawn before sunrise on Saturday […]
INEC declares Obaseki winner of Edo guber poll
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP candidate, Godwin Obaseki has won the gubernatorial election conducted on Saturday September 19,2020 in Edo State. He was declared winner […]
Situating Oshiomhole’s fictive “godfather” label
By Sufuyan Ojeifo It is a season of incendiary, partisan frenzy in Edo State. This is, perhaps, understandably so. Although he is not a contestant […]
Edo Polls: Buhari meets Oshiomhole, warns against violence
President Muhammadu Buhari has again warned political actors in the forthcoming Edo governorship elections to shun any act capable of disrupting socio-political order in the […]
We’ll resist attempt to take over Edo Assembly illegally, Obaseki assures
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo said on Thursday that the state would resist any attempt by anybody to forcefully take over the state House of […]
See photos: Police storm Edo State Assembly premises
Armed policemen on Thursday morning stormed the premises of Edo State House of Assembly. Though there was no official pronouncement on the motive behind the […]
Don’t overheat Edo polity, PDP advises Oshiomhole
The Peoples Democratic Party National Campaign Council (PDPNCC) for Edo governorship election has advised the former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Adams […]
Edo 2020: I honestly regret the mistake I made in 2016 – Oshiomhole
The former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Adams Oshiomhole, says he regrets his mistake of supporting Mr Godwin Obaseki for governorship […]
Defamatory publications: Capt. Hosa serves notice on Edo Govt to seek redress in court
· Gives three days’ ultimatum for retraction of publications with apology· Demands N2b for embarrassment, losses, damages Chairman of Ocean Marine […]
Oshiomhole and the magnitude of his politics
By Sufuyan Ojeifo In a season of partisan frenzy, with many red-eyed politicians focused on various power-grab projects, discipline, party supremacy and rule-governed processes become […]
Lessons Oshiomhole did not learn from his Obaseki experience
By Majeed Dahiru In the affairs of men, history has a way of repeating itself in ways indicative of a divinely ordained karmic cycle of […]
Obaseki and tendency to destroy all things bright
By Hassan Ainofenokhai Godfatherism is a doctrine of the Catholic Church where a child is blessed with a godfather and that child becomes a godson. […]
CORRECTED: I accept NWC dissolution in good faith – Oshiomhole
Former National Chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Adams Oshiomhole, says he accept the decision of the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) that dissolved the […]
Tinubu mocks detractors, says he’s “made no decision” on 2023 presidential race
Former Governor of Lagos State and one of the national leaders of All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has expressed “pity” for those […]