‘Diverted Mandate’ | Intervention

Conundrums, Polarities, Permutations and Casualties: Buhari’s Elephant and Nigeria’s Power Game Ahead of 2019

Posted By: adminon: February 20, 2018In: SpectacleTags: 'Diverted Mandate', APC, CBCN, PDP, The HagueNo CommentsViews:

Analysts who frame the unfolding scenario in Nigeria as a crisis of Buhari’s elephant in relation to electoral democracy might have a more than interesting story. The idea is that, by captur... Read more

First Shots Observed in the War Between the ‘Lion King’ and Unnamed Hyenas, Jackals in Buhari Presidency

Posted By: adminon: July 20, 2017In: GovernanceTags: 'Diverted Mandate', Abba Kyari, Development Finance International, ERGP, Mamman Daura, Oxfam, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, Tukur Jikamshi, Umaru Yar’AduaNo CommentsViews:

Ahead of President Muhammadu Buhari’s final push homeward in the next one week, actions interpreted as skirmishes in the much promised war between the Lion King on the one hand and Hyenas an... Read more

Supreme Court Makes PDP One Again: What Has The Economist Intelligence Unit Got to Do With It?

Posted By: adminon: July 12, 2017In: GovernanceTags: 'Diverted Mandate', Alhaji Shehu Shagari, APC, EIU, G8, PDP, President Muhammadu Buhari, The Economist Intelligence UnitNo CommentsViews:

The struggle for power in 2019 got more complicated today with the re-birth of the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) at the Supreme Court. The strategy of incapacitating the PDP in intractabl... Read more

President Buhari Recovers the ‘Diverted Mandate’ or Is This Just a Concession to Pressure?

Posted By: adminon: April 19, 2017In: GovernanceTags: 'Diverted Mandate', anti-corruption war, Governmentality, Lawal Babachir, President Buhari, SGF, SuspensionNo CommentsViews:

By accepting to suspend the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, (SGF), was President Buhari demonstrating his recovery of mandate believed to have been hijacked or he merely bowed... Read more

See Where Intervention Stands in Global Journalism

Posted By: adminon: February 11, 2017In: FlashbackTags: 'Diverted Mandate', Analytical Journalism, BOKO HARAM, Financial Times, Harvard international Review, InterventionNo CommentsViews:

See Where Intervention Stands in Global Journalism Now, everyone can see the global stature of Intervention in analytical journalism: In its January 17th, 2017 Editorial opinion titled “Can... Read more

The ‘Diverted Mandate’ and the Essential Buhari Conundrum

Posted By: adminon: February 05, 2017In: GovernanceTags: 'Diverted Mandate', Financial Times of London, Gen Olusegun Obasanjo, Gen Sani Abacha, Gen TY Danjuma, IBB, Kaduna Mafia, Mazi S G Ikoku, Prof Sam Aluko, Prof Tam David West, Prof Yemi OsinbajoNo CommentsViews:

The ‘Diverted Mandate’ and the Essential Buhari Conundrum President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to end his nearly two week vacation in the United Kingdom and return to Nigeria today. While... Read more