2023: Day Ikpeazu Won The Abia South Senatorial Election, By Michael Nwabueze
Democracy is a system of government whose outcomes in elections are determined by the people. For an election to be adjudged successful, it must be free, fair, and credible, and these are factors driven by the system's ability to allow the people to so freely express their choices without let, hindrance, or coercion. Such free choices are expressed in several...
[OPINION] Abia 2023: If Power Must Return To Abia North, Then Mascot Uzor Kalu Is The Last Hope
When the Abia state governorship candidate of the Action Peoples Party (APP), Chief Mascot Uzor Kalu, threw his heart into the ring for the governorship race, so many eyebrows were raised. So many grumbled and asked, "Why must it be the Uzor Kalu family?" But deep within me, I knew from the onset that he could be the only...
Before We Crucify The Private Organ Graduate
By Alex Enemanna The viral TikTok video of a young lady who claimed to have successfully completed her academic sojourn at Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Imo State, through the help of God and her private organ, has activated the sainthood in us. This has led many conservative critics to call for her head, while the liberal ones just stop at hurling...
South-East Deserves To Produce The Next Senate President, By Bello Osaretin
In The Spirit Of Brotherhood And National Unity, The South-East Deserves To Produce The Next Senate President. Today, the presidential elections has come and gone, the winner of the contest declared and the storm of election razzle is gradually settling down. The question now is that, to what extent would any strategy deployed to bring everybody on board, especially the political...
10th National Assembly: A Fair Bargain For South East Overdue, By Ifeanyi Okali
It was Holly Black who said, "We don't need to be good. But let's try to be fair". Since the beginning of the current political dispensation in 1999, there is arguably any region that has been unfairly treated like the South East region of the country. It has again resonated with an age-long animosity, strife and suspicion, leading to a...
Dr. Alex Otti – The Morning Determines The Day! By Monday Ubani
Once again let me use this golden opportunity to congratulate His Excellency, Dr Alex Otti, Abia State Governor-Elect, for his victory in the last
10th NASS Speaker: Group Urges G-7 To Accept Abbas, Ben Kalu’s Endorsement
A pressure group, Defenders of Constitutional Democracy (CDC), has again appealed to the G-7 aspirants and minority caucus under the umbrella of Greater Minority to jettison the idea of presenting consensus candidates for Speaker and Deputy Speaker, respectively. The CDC instead urged the aggrieved Aspirants and the Minority Group to support the choice of Rt. Hon. Tajudeen Abbas and Rt....
Nnamdi Kanu And His Trials By Ordeal – By Aloy Ejimakor
It’s not acceptable, even by the lowest standards of fairness, that it took the Court of Appeal only two weeks to undo a sound judgment that discharged Nnamdi Kanu from his long and tortuous seven years of ordeal with the criminal justice system in Nigeria. Recall that Kanu was first arrested and charged in 2015 and the judgment discharging him...
Orji Kalu, The Man Tinubu Needs Now, By Daniel Eke
I most heartily, once again, congratulate our dear President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and all those who won their elections on the platform of our dear party, APC, and other political parties. I also appreciate those who lost for their contributions to our nascent democracy. That is the beauty of democracy. I believe everyone is seeking a better nation for all. To...
OPINION: Senate Presidency Is Not About OUK, It’s About Equality And Fairness – Prince Ike Okorafor
The South East electorate participated in the 2015 election for the presidential candidate of the People's Democratic Party, who hails from the South-South region. Nonetheless, the All Progressives Congress prevailed, and Buhari's administration continued to marginalize the South East until the conclusion of his second term in 2023. In 2023, again, the south-east voted for the presidential candidate of the...
