No summary may better describe governance as a serious business than a 2012 LinkedIn publication by SanmiAdekola published at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/governance-serious- business-part-i-sanmi-adekola/?trk=articles_directorywhere the writer observed that “Beyond the façade, governance is a serious business. Great leaders give the people what they need, average leaders give the people what they want. Society progresses [...]
On a number of occasions, I have had cause to interrogate the country’s electoral justice system in terms of both efficiency and result. In all the autopsy, not really diagnosis, done by me, I have found shortfalls/drawbacks in the electoral justice system. I recall that in some of my prior [...]
IT was Chidi Odinkalu that recently wrotean article titled, ‘Judiciary As A Lost Hopeof the Common Man’. The article whichtrended for a reasonable period in the socialmedia, was misconstrued in some quartersto be an indictment on the judiciary and, byextension, the judicial officers. I honestlydo not see it from that [...]
Within a month prior to the composition and inauguration of the Lagos State government cabinet, I had cause to proactively intervene twice in this column on the affairs of the State. The interventions, misconstrued in some quarters to be a criticism of the leadership of the State, was essentially to draw [...]