Biafra Day passions should infuse the Igbo political playbook, but purged of secessionist praxis. Strategic pragmatism is required as the 2027 presidential poll approaches.
By Chudi Okoye
If the smart researchers...
The activists who planned the recent #EndBadGovernance protest in Nigeria could not have expected its political fallouts, including the potential to trigger realignments in the 2027 presidential election.
By Chudi Okoye
Even before the recent #EndBadGovernance protest in Nigeria had commenced,...
The ongoing hardship protest in Nigeria may be squelched by strident rebuke and heavy-handed coercion, but there’s a deeper dynamic in it that bodes ill for the country.
By Chudi Okoye
After weeks of it being whispered and days of its...
With the recent Supreme Court ruling reinstating the terrorism and treasonable felony charges leveled against Nnamdi Kanu, danger looms for the South East. The region must lobby harder to have the case terminated, failing which it should brace up...
With Nigeria sliding into a Hobbesian state, major opposition parties face a Hobson’s choice: remain fragmented and ineffectual, or adopt ‘cooperative strategies’ involving an outright merger or formal electoral alliance, to wrest power from a fumbling but formidable ruling...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo calls for political import substitution in Africa, to replace “unworkable” Western-style liberal democracy with “Afro Democracy”. He’s wrong.
By Chudi Okoye
It seems almost surreal that one should have to defend ‘liberal democracy’ as a system of...
What’s to be done when change is imperative but the political conjuncture makes it improbable? A coalition of major opposition parties offers a promising path.
By Chudi Okoye
A defeat of the corrupt and incompetent ruling party, the All Progressives Congress...
Following the traumatic outcome of the 2023 presidential election, the South East summit on economy, security and politics holding this week is a welcome initiative to begin a reset that may enable a frazzled region to compete more effectively...
Debates over the outcome of the 2023 presidential election in Nigeria seem to have taken a dark turn following the recent appeal court ruling on election petitions, with some critics rejecting the evidence of data, and others, not trusting...
Stage is set to settle the legal, even if not the political, squabbles over the controversial February 2023 presidential election in Nigeria.
By Chudi Okoye
It could hardly have been a more disappointing judgment for the eager petitioners. It...
Pat Utomi’s recently announced ‘Shadow Cabinet’ has stirred controversy, but it reveals the dire need for institutionalized opposition to shore up Nigerian...
In Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe depicted Okonkwo and Obierika as contrasting Igbo responses to colonial intrusion. Their symbolic tension persists in...
Biafra Day passions should infuse the Igbo political playbook, but purged of secessionist praxis. Strategic pragmatism is required as the 2027 presidential...