The Afenifere leadership (and indeed all of us, except Obasanjo) had over-estimated the political sagacity of the average Yoruba. On 14th of February when Faseun told the Yoruba to show their love for Obasanjo by voting for the PDP in the presidential... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/abdulrazaque/042203.html
If Obasanjo’s anti-corruption crusade were meant to impact positively on his administration, it was neutralised by Atiku’s kleptomania.... Atiku lost all the contests he entered into. He is such a political liability now that anyone he supported was doomed... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/abdulrazaque/050903.html
Going by our political antecedents, we'll be free to conclude that some good can come out of the system after all. But this is the beginning of the gradual manifestation of the underlying social and ideological currents that citizens of Shari'a states are... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/abdulrazaque/060502.html
What is there for the military to explain? With all the budgetary allocations over twenty eight years of misrule they have not been able to secure their own cantonment from disaster instead they have money-bags scrambling for political office because they... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/abdulrazaque/062902.html
Na’abba should not also think that he is home and dry just by taking his hands off house finances. When reps at a joint session complained of non-payment of their salaries, Anyim’s show of surprise was a coded message and only a tip of the iceberg. There... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/abdulrazaque/052602.html
He (Obasanjo)has fallen apart with the east, publicly insulted Ojukwu, lambasted chiefs of the south-south, assaulted the Tivs, and starved the north of development and in spite of all that, he has faith in his Tazarce agenda. To conclude that his thinking... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/abdulrazaque/062102.html
People have argued that what remains of this democracy is all spin. If one did not concur at first, this is the sign of spin. Big time! Or how does one explain this registration of Abacha's parties in a country that is so obsessed and preoccupied with... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/abdulrazaque/062602.html
If reps operate constituency offices with staff, there would be fewer hooligans to deploy at the slightest provocation, even fewer to be throwing stones and we will be spared the trauma of having to argue over stones as if it were some constitutional item. URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/abdulrazaque/052002.html
Indeed the last four years is reminiscent of the Shagari era. The above-reproach status of Dikko, the partisan police of Adewusi, the landslide claims of the NPN in the south-west etc which led to the sound of the bugle. Nigerians would detest a repeat of... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/abdulrazaque/041303.html