Prof. Charles Soludo, the Anambra State Governor called them the headless mob while the literary icon, Prof. Wole Soyinka called them fascists and nattering nitwits. Of course they are a mob with no head and certainly no ability to reason. These descriptions perfectly capture the supporters of the Labour Party Presidential Candidate in the 2023 Presidential Election, Mr. Peter Obi who aptly chose to call themselves Obidients! Prior to the 2023 general elections, Obidients (hereinafter called the mob or fascists) claimed to have started a movement that will take back Nigeria, dismantle structures of criminality, and make a new…
Author: Michael Chibuzo
It is becoming a torture these days when I go through court filings of the counsels to the Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Mr. Peter Obi at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja. One major success of the Obi Tribunal circus is the lowering of the bar of election petitioning in Nigeria. I have taken time to dissect the very watery petition of Mr. Peter Obi as well as how the petitioner struggled to make his case during the hearing. In this piece, I want to simply delve into the final written address of the Petitioner in response…
For years, it was a common refrain in the circles of economic critics, energy experts and commentators for Nigeria to fully deregulate the downstream sector of the oil and gas industry. It however took decades for Nigeria to finally heed to that call, albeit forced by circumstances. What this means is that there is a large number of generations out there in Nigeria who have been used to subsidised petrol all their life until now. Fuel subsidy is finally gone but obviously Nigerians are yet to accept and adjust to this reality. The famous literary icon, Samuel Johnson once said…