Abimbola Adelakun

November 12, 2016

Opinion: Still on Reuben Abati and Aso Rock demons

by Matthew Ige 14th October, 2016 it was, when the immediate erstwhile spokesperson of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. Reuben Abati, dropped a rather bogus spiritual treatise which borders on the spiritual version of the Nigerian ‘power house’, Aso Villa’. The crux of his postulation, in the said treatise, was that the Nigerian ‘house on... Read More

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Abimbola Adelakun: Now that Buhari is a changed man…

by Abimbola Adelakun If the politics of self-naming and renaming by a leadership indexes how their government will be defined, then Buhari’s slicing off the ‘General’ title from his person less than a fortnight before his oath of office is an omen. The president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, recently requested he no longer be addressed as “General... Read More

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Abimbola Adelakun: Are Nigerians really obnoxious?

by Abimbola Adelakun If Nigerians have any superior gene, how come they cannot fix their own country but have to migrate? With self-promotion also comes the demonisation of the other. Since the South African xenophobia crisis began, the term, “Nigerians!”, has recurred in the various discussions – from news footages to op-eds- elicited in the... Read More

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Abimbola Adelakun: Time to scrap state-sponsored pilgrimages

by Abimbola Adelakun There is no logic to government sponsoring people on something as personal as pilgrimages. I consider the beneficiaries no different from those who pay tithe from stolen wealth. Nigerian governors are fond of calling attention to their own prudence by insisting they run their states on shoestring budgets. They say the... Read More

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Abimbola Adelakun: What kind of opposition will the PDP be?

by Abimbola Adelakun The PDP has been in office for 16 years and despite its fumbles and foibles, it must have an insight into governance processes in a way the APC that is just going to be familiarising itself with the mechanism of federal power will be learning from now. By now, the Peoples Democratic... Read More

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January 11, 2015

A rejoinder: Where is Mrs. Aisha Buhari?

by Emmanuel Uchenna Ugwu Adelakun, total strangers to the Buharis, trespassed. She did not have the right or sufficient information to pronounce on their married life. The only thing more mischievous than declaring a virtual manhunt for a woman that is leading a quiet life in her matrimonial home is hiding under the pretext of affirmative... Read More

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December 18, 2014

Abimbola Adelakun: 2015 – It’s Bola Tinubu Vs Bode George in Lagos

by Abimbola Adelakun The same ethical issues confronting Agbaje shackle Ambode too. How does one shake off a godfather like Tinubu? Will Ambode ever dare such? Can he even try and not expect to be shown the proverbial eraser that cleans “inexperienced” pencils like him? Nigerian elections come with certain realities: “stomach infrastructure”; losers allege... Read More

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December 11, 2014

@adunnibaby: Are Nigerian politicians really crazy?

by Abimbola Adelakun The Nigerian Medical Association, recently, joined the throng of those who call for psychiatric evaluation for would-be occupiers of political office. The communiqué released after the body’s National Executive Committee meeting wants the Independent National Electoral Commission to engage psychiatrists who will supervise such tests. I know if I were given pre-austerity... Read More

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December 4, 2014

Abimbola Adelakun: Dear Jonathanians, nobody is afraid of Jonathan

by Abimbola Adelakun Those selling the Jonathan-for-second-term project will no doubt promote the viability of their product to the highest possible limit – even if this means stretching the truth beyond its tensile strength. I do not think there is much anyone can do about this considering that political advertisements are not always the best... Read More

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November 20, 2014

@Adunnibaby: Why #Ekiti voters are the most sophisticated in Nigeria

by Abimbola Adelakun When Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State needed to thank God for winning the governorship election held in June, he headed for a rather unusual place – the Deeper Christian Life Church. Unlike others, Deeper Life, as the church is popularly called, eschews politics, photo-ops with politicians and is unlikely to allow... Read More

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November 13, 2014

@Adunnibaby: Akpabio is a monumental money-waster

by Abimbola Adelakun Friday last week, President Goodluck Jonathan, accompanied by Presidents John Mahama of Ghana and Alassane Quattara of Cote d’Ivorie flew to Akwa Ibom State and inaugurated the 30, 000-capacity Akwa Ibom International Stadium, called the “Nest of champions.” The project was wholly financed by the state government. Days before the event, some... Read More

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November 6, 2014

@Adunnibaby: Voting a man with a broom in hand will not change Nigeria

by Abimbola Adelakun The change that will come to Nigeria, however, is not as easy as voting in a president with a broom in hand to sweep the nation’s many intractable afflictions. This is a response to a long-time reader of this column who, after reading my piece two weeks ago, Why Buhari may not... Read More

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October 28, 2014

Opinion: Why Buhari may not defeat Jonathan

by Godwin Aleke “Buhari has been running for President since 2003 and … For one, a lot of intellectual energy is usually expended analysis him and the many baggage he represent. In the process, core issues that should be tackled at election time get suspended” – Abimbola Adelakun, (Back Page) The Punch, Thursday 23rd October 2014. The... Read More

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October 23, 2014

@Adunnibaby: Why Buhari may not defeat Jonathan in 2015

by Abimbola Adelakun Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, recently dismissed insinuations he would be a running mate to the All Progressives Congress presidential aspirant, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). Since the recrudescence of Buhari’s campaign, Fashola’s rejection is proof that some folk in the APC still have their feet on the grounds of reality after... Read More

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October 16, 2014

@Adunnibaby: A note to Yoruba Christians and Muslims

by Abimbola Adelakun The South-West in Nigeria is one zone where Christians and Muslims dwell side by side with a relatively low level of rancour. This liberalism is a cultural attribute that has been for a long time. In an essay by an English anthropologist who witnessed the celebration of Oke’badan in the 50s, he... Read More

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October 9, 2014

@Adunnibaby: Dear Nigerian Army, it isn’t all about killing Shekau

by Abimbola Adelakun The Nigerian Army seems fixated with killing Abubakar Shekau, the equally self-obsessed psychopath who not only fancies himself a reincarnate of Osama bin Laden but also rides on the wave of moral panic ISIS is generating all over the place. He is the Army’s first obsession. Their second obsession concerns the unwitting... Read More

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September 25, 2014

@Adunnibaby: #PastorsBehavingBadly, The canonization of T.B Joshua

by Abimbola Adelakun If this era in Nigeria were a TV serial, it would be titled something like, “Pastors Behaving Badly.” The past few weeks have seen the demystification of “anointed men of God” and in a manner that tickles a conspiracy theorist’s imagination. First was Chris Oyakhilome, ostensibly, the sleekest pastor Nigeria has ever... Read More

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September 18, 2014

Olusegun Adeniyi Speaks || Death in the Synagogue and the Scotland referendum

by Olusegun Adeniyi The people of Scotland will go to the polls today in a referendum that could end their 307-year-old union with England and begin the process towards breaking away from the United Kingdom effectively by March 24, 2016. Although the exercise is essentially a local Scotland affair, many countries are nervous about the implications... Read More

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September 11, 2014

Abimbola Adelakun: Jonathan Almighty

by Abimbola Adelakun If there is anyone who knows all about power — its uses and abuses — in Nigeria’s democracy (and perhaps, for most part of Africa), that man is Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, a former governor of Bayelsa State and ex-boss of President Goodluck Jonathan whose impeachment proved a magic bullet that paved the latter’s... Read More

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September 4, 2014

Abimbola Adelakun writes || Let’s talk about all these youths endorsing Jonathan for 2nd term

by Abimbola Adelakun In a repeat of Ibrahim Babangida and Sani Abacha’s failed civilian transfigurations, President Goodluck Jonathan is being endorsed by vainglorious organisations. The 1990s birthed the rent-a-crowd presidential endorsement movements. First, Arthur Nzeribe, Abimbola Davies and Jerry Okoro had sought an extension for Babangida’s military junta via the auspices of the Association for... Read More

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August 28, 2014

Abimbola Adelakun: The pornocracy of Shekau and Shekarau

by Abimbola Adelakun At first glance, Boko Haram’s “caliph”, Abubakar Shekau, and Nigeria’s Minister of Education, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, share nothing in common. They ought not to. The former is a theocratic death cult thug whose chief ruse is a censure of western education whilst the latter got his sea legs in education management. An... Read More

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August 21, 2014

Abimbola Adelakun: Who is Marilyn Ogar working against?

by Abimbola Adelakun By tomorrow, Friday, August 22, the kidnapped girls of Chibok would have been unwitting ”guests” of Boko Haram for 130 days. Between their kidnap and frightful escapes, the recurring line from the relevant security agencies has been, “We know where they are”! Ironically, every Nigerian knows where they are too: With Boko... Read More

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August 14, 2014

Abimbola Adelakun: Why the wives of Nigerian soldiers are ANGRY

by Abimbola Adelakun What’s new is that the soldiers’ wives are adding that their husbands will not be sent into battle to suffer the handicaps of jamming guns, misfiring mortars and preventable deaths. November and December of 1929 saw thousands of women stampeding the Native Administration outposts in Calabar and Owerri to protest both... Read More

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Abimbola Adelakun: How Northerners are teaching Southerners a lesson in arrogance

by Abimbola Adelakun What is objectionable about the idea is ethnic profiling. For a country like Nigeria, where our ethnic divisions make for a precarious balancing, registering and identifying people based on their ethnic background is simply looking for trouble. The public bill sent to the Kano State House of Assembly mandating the lawmakers to... Read More

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Abimbola Adelakun: The fall of Murtala Nyako

by Abimbola Adelakun Nyako himself was not without sin and could not convince anyone of his innocence in the various allegations of corruption made against him. One has to be either naive or a perpetual denier of the obvious to extricate the impeachment and subsequent removal of the Governor of Adamawa State, Admiral Murtala... Read More

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Abimbola Adelakun: A lesson to the Nigerian Army, Lagos from the Pope

by Abimbola Adelakun Pope Francis has demonstrated that even the church authorities can practise what it preaches and that, in itself, makes his promise about reparations and future accountability quite credible. Recently, Pope Francis met six victims of sexual abuse by Catholic clerics and asked for their forgiveness. He also told the church to “weep... Read More

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Abimbola Adelakun: Fayose’s politics of ‘grass-roots politics’

by Abimbola Adelakun So, I wonder, is this what “grass-roots politics” in Nigeria is all about or what we are witnessing is a subversion of a good idea? Where are the moral conservatism and a sense of collective values that, ideally, drive what is called grass-roots politics? This piece is not intended as another commentary... Read More

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Abimbola Adelakun: Chibok – Is Nigeria still serious?

by Abimbola Adelakun Instructively, two cardinals were missing from the President’s response to his fact-finding committee: A sense of urgency about rescuing the abducted girls and, that of culpable responsibility. Two months after the Chibok abduction saga started, the fact-finding committee on the missing schoolgirls submitted its report. The committee confirmed that, indeed, the schoolgirls... Read More

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Abimbola Adelakun: Ekiti – May the best rice sharer win

by Abimbola Adelakun For the two major contestants, my hope is that the one who, somewhere deep within him, means well for the people of the state – even by the slimmest margin – should “moon-slide” on Saturday. And, any which way things go, the contest should be remembered as the day rice won! On... Read More

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Abimbola Adelakun: LASU – Fashola’s unwinnable war

by Abimbola Adelakun One is that the LASU fee hike is economically justified. The stark reality is that tertiary education, worldwide, is by no means cheap. Students of the Lagos State University, a week ago today, took their aluta to a melodramatic level by camping out in front of the governor’s office to register... Read More

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