Tunde Ali

Regrettably, Nigerian presidents - especially the last eight - have not been honest in their state of the nation addresses.   Their speeches are clustered around political correctness rather than providing honest and accurate information to the people...

When a collectivity of people decide to come together and live together under the umbrella of one government, such decision is a contract. It is aimed at promoting their inalienable pleasure seeking right among others. The people trade their trust with the expectation that such government will promote the people’s integrity and welfare, defend it against internal and external aggression or invasion, and be characteristically altruistic...

If OBJ had a conscience, now would be the time for him to bury his face in shame. This is due to his role and schemes in navigating President Jonathan to the corridor of power...

Keeping mute in the face of tyranny or maintaining passivity when actions are required is not ordinarily an act of cowardice, it is inhuman, it is deplorable and it is unpatriotic...

Unfortunately, barely four months into his four year term, Dr. Jonathan is singing a new tune that implies a loss in focus. The President who promised to tackle the nation's problems appears adrift...

Politicians are often not sportsmanly. They have no tolerance for defeat. Winning is a must for them. They are always desperate, brutish, nasty and crude in their efforts to win or retain political power...

We as a people have had it long and tough. A decision must be made now:  Decision to take our country back from the hands of its slaughterers; fight a good fight; use our vote as our weapon and make good use of it; vote out the useless and vote in the useful...

The lesson for the youths, trade unions, labor unions, students unions, and other democratic associations in a repressed polity is to educate their members about the need to understand the basic revolutionary ingredients needed to change power from the hand of the few oppressive elite into the hands of people centered democrats...