If you think the availability or not of General Buhari’s certificates are the main issue in Nigeria’s electoral process, then you need to get your head out of that placard-carrying ass. There are graver issues at stake, with terrible possibilities for Nigeria’s future. Now is the time for us—as citizens—to start scrutinising the serious issues, instead … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: January 2015
Will Next Month’s Nigerian Election Even Happen?
In many ways, the leadup to Nigeria’s February 2015 elections is a familiar sight to any political observer, with ads blaring nonstop on national media as candidates squabble about the issues. Yet one oddity drastically separates the African country’s election from those the Western world are used to; only one month out, it remains uncertain … Continue reading
ON CERTIFICATED PRESIDENTS | A Short Legal Study by Ayo Sogunro
A persistently irritating headline in Nigeria’s political news today rotates around the high school certification or otherwise of General Muhammad Buhari. This is not only a distraction from the relevant issues and questions, but it is also a debate brought about by a totally arbitrary and irrelevant insertion during the drafting of the 1999 Constitution. … Continue reading
PERMANENT VOTERS’ CRAZE | by Ayo Sogunro
One night, about two months ago, I was driving to my then Akoka home through the University of Lagos compound when I stopped to give an old woman a lift from the back gate into the main campus. Ordinarily, I don’t stop on Lagos roads to give lifts to total strangers, but the woman had … Continue reading
IN SHORT, NIGERIA CAN FUCKING DRIVE YOU NUTS
I would not have thought writing was capable of being an addiction until I created this, my fifth blog. It was not a deliberated decision: it was simply an urge to “re-express” myself. Like a bored drug user seeking new highs, my current writing-boards just didn’t seem to be adequate avenues for self-expression anymore. There’s a … Continue reading
ALL THOSE “BUHARISTS” AND “GEJITES” | by Ayo Sogunro
I get it: plenty of you folks have made a firm commitment to the success of your chosen political candidate. Good for you. But, a number of us are just ordinary Nigerians who are trying to be careful about the next government of the country–hell, some of us may not even make a political decision … Continue reading
ELECTION 2015: #NIGERIANSASK–QUESTIONS FOR BUHARI? QUESTIONS FOR JONATHAN?
Do you have any questions? In a few weeks, Nigerians will, once again, line up at polling booths across the country to decide their political destiny for the next four years—and beyond. Naturally, the election season and its attendant fevers have generated an astonishing assortment of promises and counter-promises, accusations and counter-accusations between the political … Continue reading
