Basorun Akin Osuntokun served as the Director General of the Peter Obi Presidential Campaign Committee. A former presidential adviser and one-time managing director of the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, Osuntokun is not known to hold hostages when discussing socio-economic and political issues in Nigeria. A Yoruba leader in the intelligentsia sphere, Osuntokun insists that Nigeria may continue to grope in the dark considering what is already on display by the Bola Tinubu administration.
I can not speak for the elected Labour Party members. I’m not an official of the party and was not involved in their campaigns. I think many of them were just being practical in choosing the platform of the Labour party to contest. They cashed in on the popularity of Peter Obi, so I don’t think they hold themselves to any idealistic constraints.Yes, of course! There is the mitigation that Tinubu was handed a basket case by Buhari.
Local government autonomy is not a virtue within the context of Nigerian federalism. Any policy that, by default, results in the unintended consequence of further empowerment of the federal government does not serve the interest of Nigeria . The major problem Nigeria has is the prioritisation of the politics of consumption over that of productivity driven development ethic. If the motivation of seeking public office is to go and serve, there would have been no quarrel at all.
Before the President appointed his ministers, expectations were high that he was going to assemble a star-studded team. Would you say his ministers have disappointed Nigerians? In specific, step by step terms, how would Peter Obi have gone about solving Nigeria’s problem had LP won? I’m talking about the economy, insecurity, and reintegration in terms of the North/South divide as well as the pockets of agitation in the land?