SANMI ADEKOLA BLOG

I was one of the late converts of Buhari's Presidency especially in the build up to the 2015 General Election despite my affiliation and sympathy to the All Progressives Congress. My hesitant was borne out of understanding of the past role played by President Buhari in the past. As a sophomore student of Public Administration at the great Olabisi Onabanjo University, one of my mandatory courses was a Leadership Course and of which Regime by Regime Analysis of past Nigeria political leaders was one of the course outlines. Under this topic, the achievements and fall outs of the various Head of States from civilians to military governments were critically analyse by the Lecturer in person of Dr Agbaje who taught the course. Along this was my personal research. There and then, it was obvious to me that the campaign against Buhari presidential ambition was not a mere propaganda as virtually all the allegations leveled against him was real and factual then. It is therefore not surprisi...

It is one of the Murphy's Law of Life that if something must go wrong, it must invariably go wrong; but in Nigeria, it seems everything that comes from the government must go wrong. An average Nigerian never expects any good thing to come from the government be it Federal, State or Local; hence, he or she either maintains Sit-down and look, and or the cynic posture. This perhaps accounts for the lethargy of the electorates during the electoral process: an average Nigeria electorates, mostly the elites either do not take part in the electoral process; and or see the election time as an opportunity to get his or her share of the national cake by demanding for money and monetary compensation before casting his or her ballots.  The cynics posture has even be elevated to a philosophical and intellectual level such that among the academia, the phrase - Nigerian factor  is a common lexicon.  It is woven among the erroneous but potent belief that no matter how lofty a p...