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Last week, the All Progressives Congress announced its latest membership tally of 40 million members and counting. With its ongoing “revalidation”, the Peoples Democratic Party will, no doubt, announce its own membership tally in the millions soon enough. What is going on? What accounts for this new enthusiasm for membership of political parties in this country? It is even conceivable that either the APC or the PDP will have reached 50 million members by the time of the next presidential election in 2023. That would mean, in effect, that one quarter of the population belongs to a single political party. It is either that Nigeria has the most politically conscious citizens in the world, or the most ignorant.The astronomical membership figures are at variance with all theories of democracy and democratic norms. Political parties in Nigeria are the antithesis of what they are generally understood to be. Political parties exist to propagate ideas, policy a
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Case closed? Not quite
There can be no justice for Caruana Galizia if the alleged involvement of the PM’s former chief of staff Keith Schembri, through his assistance to one or other players in this plot, is not thoroughly investigated
28 February 2021, 3:23pm
The arrest this week of three more men suspected of involvement in the Caruana Galizia assassination, as well as the 2015 Carmel Chircop murder, was undeniably a major breakthrough for police.
It also stemmed from the decision of one of the original suspects – Vincent Muscat – to accept a plea bargain. This has, in fact, been the pattern of the investigation: Muscat had already pointed out Melvin Theuma, the assassination middleman, to investigators; and Theuma in turn accepted a Presidential pardon to tell police all he knew about the assassination.
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