On Lekki-Epe Expressway: Your Excellency Governor Akinwunmi Ambode

How can you, in good conscience, continue to allow tolls on Lekki-Epe Expressway, when majority of its users are subjected to harrowing motoring experiences daily?

Most users live East of Abraham Adesanya Estate, where the $16m per kilometre expansion stops. Lekki-Epe Expressway is 67km in length, from the Maroko Toll Plaza to Epe T-Junction, yet the poor quality expansion of less than 35% of it is used as justification to toll all of it.

From Abraham Adesanya eastwards, the quality of the road surface, though better in many respects than some of the "new" portions, are beginning to deteriorate due to sheer volume of traffic and inadequate provision.

Senators Saraki And Ekweremadu's Elections Are A Nullity By Jiti Ogunye

 This is a very interesting take on the State of NASS Union .... 

Since the National Assembly (NA)  erupted in crisis during the  "inauguration" of the 8th NA and the "election" of the leadership of the Senate and House of Representatives on Tuesday, the 9th of June, 2015, a lot has been said and written about the issues in dispute in the crisis.  Unfortunately, rather than subject the "election"  in the NA, in particular  in the Senate, on that day, to a rigorous legal examination, in order to determine the legality of that election, many of the principal actors in  the NA leadership crisis or in the All Progressives Congress (APC) imbroglio, and a host of other  interveners have been discussing the  politics of the crisis and its  "mishandling" by the APC leadership, who, according to these interveners,  was hell bent on foisting a leadership on the NA. Many simple-minded gloaters have even reduced the serious issues thrown up by the crisis to a  celebration of the  " political defeat of  Bola Ahmed Tinubu", as if that alleged defeat was all that was needed to make the aberration that occurred in the NA acceptable.  In this intervention, we seek to redirect the discourse. We argue that the NA leadership crisis primarily should be discussed and resolved on the basis of enquiries as to whether there had been a violation of the  rule of law and the provisions of  the Constitution.   -    Jiti Ogunye

What transpired in the NA on Tuesday, 9th June, 2015 was a coup d'état. If it was merely a  coup d'état by  the treacherous members of the APC against their party's choices  for  the offices that constitute the leadership of the NA, we would not have been bothered. We are bothered because it  was also a coup d'état against the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and the rule of law.

On that day, while Senator Bukola Saraki of the APC, who has confessed that, like a typical coup d'état leader, he sneaked into the premises of the NA at dawn, was "elected  unopposed" as the Senate President, by 57 Senators, in the absence of 51 Senators, who were "ambushed" into a fence-mending and ranks-closing meeting that eventually turned out to be a hoax, Senator Ike Ekweremadu of the People Democratic Party ( PDP) "defeated" his opponent, Senator Ali Ndume of the APC by 50 votes to 24 votes  ( with one abstention)  to clinch the post of the Deputy Senate President. Instructively, the APC controls the Senate with 59 ( now 58)  Senators, while the PDP has 49 Senators, meaning that 108 members ought to have congregated on the Senate Floor on the said date to constitute the leadership of the Senate. Alas, only 57 senators and 75 senators took part in the elections into the two offices.

Why the Conspiracy Against Bola Tinubu's Will Fail - Kehinde bamigbetan

First, my prejudice: I am committed to the promotion, elevation and celebration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Just like lovers of Chief Awolowo, I wear caps with his chain logo.

I understand him and I have written tomes of articles to try to make people see him in as best a light as possible.

I should remind you. I was his Deputy Chief Press Secretary from 2003 to 2005 and his Chief Press Secretary from 2005 to 2007. 

When he left office in May 2007, I continued as his media adviser until I was elected into office as Executive Chairman of Ejigbo LCDA.

As a media and political strategist, I understand perfectly that the Presidency knows that Tinubu is one of the key strategists of the APC. He thinks outside the box and has rare expertise in plotting the logistics of electoral campaigns.So strategic that if his services to the party could be neutralized, the Presidency's plot to overrun the APC will be easier to achieve.

Second, Tinubu is one of the key grassroots mobilizers of the APC, particularly in the Southwest where he has demonstrated capacity to roll back the territorial gains of his party's opponents.

#EkitiDecides: PDP should devote the energy they use to steal elections to the Nation – Tinubu

With today’s election, Ekiti State has become the epicenter of Nigerian electoral politics. Here, the major political fault lines converge into a great foreshadowing. 

Fateful questions not only about Ekiti but about the course of our nation and its uncertain democracy will be asked and may be answered this day. If this is how history will have it, so be it. Elections in Nigeria have rarely been a transparent exercise.

The ruling party has mostly dug into its bag of electoral tricks to cast about a vast assortment of malpractice over almost every important contest.

As the ruling PDP senses its popularity flag and apprehends the existence of an opposition party that it cannot dominate, PDP anxiety has become acute. Rigging is no longer a tool it uses in election.

Rigging has become an article of faith for them. With the advent of the APC, the PDP finally faces a challenger strong enough to remove its chokehold on the nation’s future.