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By Bola Bolawole

Vice presidents are ineffective and ineffectual spare tyres that are hardly put to use. That has been our experience here. Otherwise, tell me, of what benefit has the vice president, Yemi Osinbajo, a senior pastor at the Redeemed Christian of God, been to Christians and Christianity in their hours of need? VPs are near worthless even in the advanced democracies, such that when a presidential aspirant in the US lost his party nomination and was asked if he would consent to being the running mate to the winner, he quipped: “I hate all vices, including the vice presidency”! In the same US, they have a cliche, to wit, that the vice president is to be seen, and not to be heard.

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By Bola Bolawole

Audacity is a word made popular in our own time by the erstwhile United States of America president, Barack Hussein Obama. A relatively little-known Black man, in a country still seething with racial discrimination against the people of colour - as Blacks, African-Americans, Latinos, etc were called - decided to go for not just the highest office in the land but the most powerful, most respected, and most feared in the entire world.

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By Valentine Obienyem

The newest phenomenon in town, Mr. Peter Obi, turns 61 Tuesday. Contrary to the customary use of the day to see him through biographical prisms, we shall view him through the mass movement that has all the attributes of a revolution in which he is a prominent figure.

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By Godknows Igali, Ph.D

The primaries of Nigerian political parties for the selection of candidates for 2023 General Elections have come and gone, leaving a trail of national dyspepsia of sorts. At a time when the opportunity of political change was expected to elicit eruptive cheers, this situation of staggering mood deserves, as the biological sciences would do, a deeper enquiry into understanding the forms and structures which underline the electoral process. Also, for historians as empirical scientists, which many of its practitioners claim to be, the main tool for accurately recording of current events for future generations entails getting into their roots and foundations.

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By Jude Ogechi Eze

Tuesday last week defined more concretely our previous assertion here that 2023 general election may be the most critically decisive poll in the anals of our national history. I was having a rough time, trying to tie off a tragedy that befall my family two weeks ago, which kept me away from this space for the first time in four years, when barrage of messages filtered into my WhatsApp, followed by torrential calls. It was so urgent, I had to mute notifications.

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The theory of Praise to power 5 (p5).

Politics, particularly in the Nigeria's context, is a jogging in the jungle. If you can kick, smash or jump over the shrubs in the jungle, even if you're bitten by the snake in the process, it does not count, it's the end that justifies the means, as long as you don't offend the law, period! That's why you can hear such boasts, "lets win first, and settle later".

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