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APC Presidential Primaries: The Best Politician Won.

Daily Dispatch June 9, 2022

By Bolaji O. Akinyemi. Presidential primaries are strictly a political party affair and of course it is meant to be won by the best politician and not necessarily the best aspirant in the race for the Job. Tinubu proved he is an old war horse in the race. Let me therefore congratulate the

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Tinubu: Back Story and the Morning After

Daily Dispatch June 9, 2022

By Azu Ishiekwene After the feisty, if not bitter, presidential primary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) ended on Wednesday with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu emerging the party’s candidate for the next election, the overriding instinct is to throw the losers under the bus. You can hardly blame Tinubu’s camp. The man had a raw

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South-East political leaders with money and opportunities but little or no sense, certainly gutless

Daily Dispatch June 8, 2022

By Chinedu Jideofo-Ogbuagu In South-East APC Integrity Group, from June 2015 to January 2020, we strategized and pushed for sanitization and growth of APC in the South-East, preparatory to the geopolitical zone making a strong collective bid for 2023 Presidency on APC platform. But we were largely ignored, even suspected and derided by South-Easterners with […]

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Murder In The Cathedral

Daily Dispatch June 6, 2022

By Erasmus Ikhide  THIS week Sunday, Fulani terrorists attacked St Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Owo, a sleepy town in Ondo State, attended by spewing gory scene where over twenty-five persons were allegedly slaughtered in broad daylights that looked more like horror movie. The beastly Fulani terrorists reportedly detonated bombs before entering the church

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Tinubu’s karma and Osinbajo’s ingratitude (1)

Daily Dispatch June 6, 2022

By Tunde Odesola Karma doesn’t revenge. It only rewards good and bad deeds. I’ll choose karma over ingratitude, any day, anytime because, in the fullness of time, fairness is, essentially, the goal of karma. Ingratitude is the intoxicating vodka wobbling the arrogant legs of the entitled, on the road of no return. Ingratitude loves arrogance, […]

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My random thought on those Tinubu’s rants in Ogun

Daily Dispatch June 6, 2022

By Sunday Michael Ogwu This is basically me trying to make sense of the comments that was made by the ‘owner of Lagos’ earlier today in Ogun State. I personally feel irritated by the whole talk of “payback time”. Maybe Buhari owes Tinubu but certainly not the party APC. Let us even concede in our […]