Tag: 2019 elections

There is a noticeable whirl of feverish desperation in the Presidential Villa. No perceptive person can miss that.  From indiscriminately arresting and detaining political opponents and critics, to squelching dissent in the traditional news media through blackmail and threats, to undisguisedly deploying security forces in the service of overt partisan agendas, it’s now starkly transparent that the Buhari regime is not interested in or prepared for a fair electoral contest.  The starker the reality of impending electoral defeat stares the regime in the face, the more extreme the intensity of its desperation becomes. All the institutions that are crucial to a free and transparent election are now compromised. For instance, service chiefs, who are required by law to be apolitical, attended...

Ahead of the 2019 elections, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has methodically cut up the re-election seeking President Muhammadu Buhari administration, disclosing that the Constitution and the laws of the country are often trampled upon with impunity by the administration. As the fourth highest ranking officer in the country and a lawyer, Dogara certainly knows what he is talking about. It is also a seeming indictment of the Legislative arm of the Federal Government for not patriotically standing up against such noticeable acts of impunity. ‘’There is a growing phenomenon of disobedience of rulings of courts of competent jurisdiction by many chief executives of government’’, he added. According to the speaker, ‘’this is an ominous development that can only ...