2019: Okorocha and the burden of son-in-law’s ambition
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the U.S., in his rousing conclusion to a November 19, 1863 Gettysburg address said of democracy...
2019: No alternative to President Buhari?
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
I had a thought-provoking, albeit unsettling, discussion with a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja late last year after...
2019: How will Ganduje ‘manufacture’ 5m votes promised Buhari?
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
If recent political developments in Kano State point to the direction Nigeria is headed when the election bell tolls again in 2019,...
Zuma: When will a Nigerian president be recalled?
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
I don’t know how many Nigerians are abreast of the political developments in South Africa.
On Tuesday, February 13, 2018, the Sowetan, a...
Of false narratives and killer herdsmen
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
It was Thomas Hobbes, the 17th century English philosopher, who in his seminal work Leviathan put a magnifying lens on "the natural...
Ekwueme, Nigeria and the “what ifs”
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
On Friday, February 2, 2018, the remains of Nigeria's first democratically elected vice president, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, will be committed to mother...
On Buhari, I stand with Obasanjo
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
Again, we are in the political silly season. Not that it just kicked off. No, Nigeria is a country in a permanent...
Buharism: A brand damaged by nepotism
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
Until recently, the Muhammadu Buhari brand was, perhaps, the most potent and compelling brand in the country. In the north, he was...
Impunity of the Nigerian state
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
Something is fundamentally wrong with our politics. The winner-takes-all mentality makes every contest for power a zero-sum-game, which in essence reduces elections...
Buhari and the $1b Excess Crude Account largesse
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
I was aghast last week when Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, announced that he and his colleagues at the National Economic Council...
