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By   Paul Onomuakpokpo With a pedigree of an incurable self-advertisement behind it, the Muhammadu Buhari government is not known for half-measures. Alas, this propensity has not found its profoundest expression in the prosecution of an agenda for engendering good governance.  *Lai Mohammed  The upshot is that the emergence of the Buhari government has burdened the citizens with a miserable existence that harks back to a Hobbesian state of nature where life is nasty, brutish and short on account of the half-hearted measures for governance that has been deployed.  For the political party of Buhari, the All Progressives Congress (APC), there is the tragedy that this predilection has also become the petard on which it is being hoisted. Or why are the party’s leaders unrestrained as they fight themselves over who has the power to determine those to take over the reins of leadership in different states? Yet, we cannot ignore the fact that this tendency has redounded to sh...

By  Paul Onomuakpokpo When posterity reflects on this dark political epoch whose principal actor is President Muhammadu Buhari, it would be racked by the disappointment that some people were so swayed by self-interest or naivety that they made him their number one citizen. Perhaps, it would be dissuaded from unleashing a harsh judgement on its forbears after the realisation that the emergence of Buhari as the president has eternally served to demystify him. Stripped bare of his much-trumpeted integrity as cases of official sleaze cascade around him, he has irrevocably rendered himself unfit for the pantheon of statesmen. The searing verdict is reserved for Buhari who even after three years since he became president, unflaggingly whines about how unconscionable pillage by his predecessor has hobbled his translation of his noble intentions into reality. But we must appreciate the fact that Buhari has ceaselessly been provided with opportunities to reinvent himself and prove...

Press Statement 2019: Hold APC Responsible Should Harm Befall Atiku, Others, PDP Insists The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the All Progressives Congress (APC) should be held responsible should any harm befall former Vice President Abubakar Atiku or any of the PDP Presidential aspirants ahead of the 2019 general elections. PDP's position is predicated on its comprehensive consideration of all issues relating to the threats to the life of the former Vice President, as well as similar threats and harassments of other presidential aspirants in our fold, just as our party places all these threats at the doorstep of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC. The PDP do not take these threats as a ruse and we demand an open inquest into all the issues raised by Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in his petition to President Buhari. It is public knowledge that the APC has been on frenetic mode over the caliber and popularity of Presidential aspirants arraying in our party platform. The APC knows tha...