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By Ishaq Modibbo Kawu When arrogance is your wings, no matter how high you fly, your end would always be a crash landing. Bukola Saraki just crash-landed in Kwara with a fractured skull. Ó Tó Gé has defeated their o tun ya and the whole state is now singing Ó Tó Ópe (worthy of gratitude) Those who claimed without them President Buhari wouldn't have won the 2015 general elections, in 2019, without all of them, Muhammadu Buhari Olowori Oko Aisha Muhammadu Buhari just won his re-election while they all lost theirs. Now we know who is who. Now we know who truly won the 2015 general elections for Buhari, now we are better informed that Saraki is an empty barrel that makes the loudest noise, now we know that President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, is the winner of his own victories, the Phenomena, the Movement that helps others to the next level. Those pupils in political kindergarten who want to teach their political grandfather the encyclopedia of politics have just failed or...

With the Presidential election less than 48 hours away, this is a silent reminder of Obasanjo’s thoughts and his testimony on the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Obasanjo had published in his memoirs a brutal testimonial about Atiku, which he said he was not retracting. Excerpted here from former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s memoirs, My Watch, is his candid assessment of Atiku Abubakar, his former vice-president and one of the 70 plus contenders for Nigeria’s leadership throne on Saturday. Obasanjo who now strangely backs Atiku for convoluted reasons, said at a function at Lagos Island Club last month that he stands by everything he wrote in the book. Read the assessment before going to the polls on Saturday. On why he picked Atiku as his vice president then: ”I considered all candidates that were available and what I knew about them. I had earlier collected information about some to beef up my knowledge of them. That night, I settled for ...

With the Presidential election less than 48 hours away, this is a silent reminder of Obasanjo’s thoughts and his testimony on the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Obasanjo had published in his memoirs a brutal testimonial about Atiku, which he said he was not retracting. Excerpted here from former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s memoirs, My Watch, is his candid assessment of Atiku Abubakar, his former vice-president and one of the 70 plus contenders for Nigeria’s leadership throne on Saturday. Obasanjo who now strangely backs Atiku for convoluted reasons, said at a function at Lagos Island Club last month that he stands by everything he wrote in the book. Read the assessment before going to the polls on Saturday. On why he picked Atiku as his vice president then: ”I considered all candidates that were available and what I knew about them. I had earlier collected information about some to beef up my knowledge of them. That night, I settled for ...

With the Presidential election less than 48 hours away, this is a silent reminder of Obasanjo’s thoughts and his testimony on the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Obasanjo had published in his memoirs a brutal testimonial about Atiku, which he said he was not retracting. Excerpted here from former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s memoirs, My Watch, is his candid assessment of Atiku Abubakar, his former vice-president and one of the 70 plus contenders for Nigeria’s leadership throne on Saturday. Obasanjo who now strangely backs Atiku for convoluted reasons, said at a function at Lagos Island Club last month that he stands by everything he wrote in the book. Read the assessment before going to the polls on Saturday. On why he picked Atiku as his vice president then: ”I considered all candidates that were available and what I knew about them. I had earlier collected information about some to beef up my knowledge of them. That night, I settled for ...