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In his magnum opus, The Accidental Public Servant, Malam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, governor of Kaduna State, wrote: “As things stand currently, we have surrendered the bulk of our political space to the dishonourable, the incompetent and worse, to the criminally-minded. This is the basic problem of Nigeria.” Indeed, so. The political space is where it […]
Why the law-makers should listen to Professor Yakubu
Professor Mahmood Yakubu
Sun May 02 2021
I welcome Professor Mahmood Yakubu’s decision to talk, if only briefly in the circumstances, about what ails our elections as the honourable members of the 9th national assembly prepare to take on the tough task of making laws for the good governance of our dear country. At the ceremony at which the INEC chairman presented certificates of returns to the senators-elect in Abuja last week, Yakubu told the distinguished new and returning senators that “As a process governed by law, the success of election in Nigeria depends to a large extent on the electoral legal framework and most importantly, in ensuring adherence to the rule of law.”
The past casts a long shadow
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Sun Apr 25 2021
In my column, Who are they? (The Ombudsman, Daily Trust, May 27, 2018), I made the following points:
One. “We need to know our rulers in the executive and the legislative branches of government. We need to know the antecedents of the men and women hand-picked by the godfathers in all the political parties as state governors and members of the national and state legislatures. If we do not know them, what can we expect from them? Public offices are not supposed to be dashed to those who make the godfathers feel good.