Atiku Abubakar | Intervention

What SDP Presidential Candidate, Prince Adewole Adebayo, is Promising on Fuel

Posted By: adminon: September 13, 2026In: Words and WorldTags: Atiku Abubakar, Bola Tinubu, Fuel subsidy, IMF/World Bank, Peter Obi, SDP, Solar panel1 CommentViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Fuel subsidy is emerging as the defining subject matter of the lacklustre 2027 presidential campaign. Atiku Abubakar, former Vice-president and presidential candidate of the... Read more

Isn’t Nigeria Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea in 2027?

Posted By: adminon: July 29, 2026In: De-EscalationTags: 2027, ADC, APC, Atiku Abubakar, Bola Tinubu, NDC, PDP, Peter Obi, Rabiu Kwankwaso, Rotimi AmaechiNo CommentsViews:

A week or so ago, Babatunde Fashola, former governor of Lagos State, contended that the opposition offers nothing more than the quest for Tinubu to be defeated. Now, Salihu Lukman is raising... Read more

Dr. Otive Igbuzor’s Double Move on 40 Years of SAP in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: July 18, 2026In: GovernanceTags: Adewale Adebayo, Atiku Abubakar, Goodluck Jonathan, IMF, Muhammadu Buhari, olusegun Obasanjo, Peter Obi, Reform, SAP, Shehu Shagari, The Washington Consensus, The World BankNo CommentsViews:

For sure, the Communique which emerged from the July 16th, 2026 Conference on 40 Years of SAP in Nigeria is now a collective effort but it had an agentian push. And the agency is none other... Read more

Is It Possible It Was Nigeria That Happened to Justice Onnoghen in 2019?

Posted By: adminon: March 26, 2026In: FlashbackTags: Atiku Abubakar, Banality, BUHARI REGIME, Chief Justice OnnoghenNo CommentsViews:

Is this not worth thinking about? How was it believable that he met Atiku Abubakar if he never did? Yes, everything in the world is about power but it is not everything that is about politic... Read more

Isn’t Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo a Performance Puzzle?

Posted By: adminon: March 22, 2026In: GovernanceTags: Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa, Achebe, Agrarian transformation, Anambra State, Aper Aku, Atiku Abubakar, Bola Tinubu, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, IMF/World Bank, Mallam Lawal Batagarawa, Peter Obi, Prof Sam Aluko, Prof Thandika MkandawireNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo ONOJA This piece is about a puzzle rather than a campaign for, against or criticism of Prof Charles Chukwuma Soludo who was sworn-in a week ago for his second term of four years as... Read more

Time for Daniel Bwala to De-escalate!

Posted By: adminon: March 11, 2026In: De-EscalationTags: Aljazeera, Arthur Mbanefo, Atiku Abubakar, BBC Hardtalk, Black world, Bola Tinubu, Daniel Bwala, John Howard, Nigerian Presidency, Obafemi Awolowo, olusegun Obasanjo, Sunday Times, Thabo MbekiNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Barrister Daniel Bwala, Presidential adviser on policy communications, is still angrily reacting to the over-lexicalisation of his March 6th, 2026 appearance on Aljazeera. As... Read more

What Makes 2027 Potentially Dangerous!

Posted By: adminon: May 25, 2025In: GovernanceTags: 2027, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, Atiku Abubakar, Chief Awolowo, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Dele Farotimi, Dr. Umaru Dikko, Informationalised capitalism, Peter Obi, Radical contingency, Senate President Godswill Akpabio, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, Social CharterNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja In a country such as Nigeria where politics, authority and leadership are not moderated by any set of elders; a Left establishment; a media with mystique; a judicial aristocr... Read more

Imagining Dr. Segun Osoba’s 90th Birthday on January 9th, 2025

Posted By: adminon: January 03, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Atiku Abubakar, Bala Usman, Bola Tinubu, Chapter Two, Constitution Drafting Committee, Gen Shehu Yar'Adua, IBB, IMF Conditionalities, Minority Report, Muhammadu Buhari, Ruling class, Segun Osoba, Super Permanent Secretaries, ThatcherismNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Although it won several battles, it lost the war. As the losing party in the grand struggle for which perspective should ground Nigeria, it is at the receiving end of the con... Read more

Could ‘They’ Talk Less Vis-à-vis the Management of the Protests, Please?

Posted By: adminon: August 07, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Atiku Abubakar, COAS, Coup. CDS, Hegemony, Machiavelli, The presidentNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja The mention of a military coup anywhere, anytime can be unsettling. It is more so in Nigeria where the military intervention in politics has been a prolonged experience. Unde... Read more

Why the Clerical Turn Among Nigerian Marxists?

Posted By: adminon: July 15, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Animism, Ashiwaju Bola Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar, Christianity, Clerical Marxism, Gen Shehu Yar'Adua, God, Islam, Judaism, Marxism, NANS, olusegun Obasanjo, Peter Obi, PPA, ReligionNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Introduction Marxists in Nigeria are turning to religion in numbers warranting the claim of a clerical turn among the tribe. We may still not know the number of Marxists who... Read more