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Centre for Nigeria Progress @[email protected] · 2026-09-07 · 16:00 UTC

Twenty Years Late and Several Republics Short: On EJ, Atiku and Nigeria’s Habit of Reheating Cold Corruption by Lawson Akhigbe

In 1999, Olusegun Obasanjo and Atiku Abubakar rode into Aso Rock together, a presidential double act that Nigerians assumed would age like most political marriages: quietly, then not at all. They survived one term. They won a second in 2003. Then, somewhere in that second term, Obasanjo discovered a constitutional itch that the 1999 Constitution's two term, eight year ceiling on the presidency simply would not scratch. He wanted a third term. Atiku, nursing a presidential ambition of his own and possessed of the inconvenient habit of reading the Constitution literally, said so publicly. The friendship ended there.

https://lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/07/twenty-years-late-and-several-republics-short-on-ej-atiku-and-nigerias-habit-of-reheating-cold-corruption-by-lawson-akhigbe/

#accountability #apc #argument #attitude #blowhard #bombastic

Centre for Nigeria Progress @[email protected] · 2026-09-07 · 16:00 UTC

Twenty Years Late and Several Republics Short: On EJ, Atiku and Nigeria’s Habit of Reheating Cold Corruption by Lawson Akhigbe

In 1999, Olusegun Obasanjo and Atiku Abubakar rode into Aso Rock together, a presidential double act that Nigerians assumed would age like most political marriages: quietly, then not at all. They survived one term. They won a second in 2003. Then, somewhere in that second term, Obasanjo discovered a constitutional itch that the 1999 Constitution's two term, eight year ceiling on the presidency simply would not scratch. He wanted a third term. Atiku, nursing a presidential ambition of his own and possessed of the inconvenient habit of reading the Constitution literally, said so publicly. The friendship ended there.

https://lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/07/twenty-years-late-and-several-republics-short-on-ej-atiku-and-nigerias-habit-of-reheating-cold-corruption-by-lawson-akhigbe/

#accountability #apc #argument #attitude #blowhard #bombastic

Centre for Nigeria Progress @[email protected] · 2026-09-07 · 16:00 UTC

Twenty Years Late and Several Republics Short: On EJ, Atiku and Nigeria’s Habit of Reheating Cold Corruption by Lawson Akhigbe

In 1999, Olusegun Obasanjo and Atiku Abubakar rode into Aso Rock together, a presidential double act that Nigerians assumed would age like most political marriages: quietly, then not at all. They survived one term. They won a second in 2003. Then, somewhere in that second term, Obasanjo discovered a constitutional itch that the 1999 Constitution's two term, eight year ceiling on the presidency simply would not scratch. He wanted a third term. Atiku, nursing a presidential ambition of his own and possessed of the inconvenient habit of reading the Constitution literally, said so publicly. The friendship ended there.

https://lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/07/twenty-years-late-and-several-republics-short-on-ej-atiku-and-nigerias-habit-of-reheating-cold-corruption-by-lawson-akhigbe/

#vote #usa #unitedstates #tinubu #settlement #politics

Centre for Nigeria Progress @[email protected] · 2026-09-07 · 16:00 UTC

Twenty Years Late and Several Republics Short: On EJ, Atiku and Nigeria’s Habit of Reheating Cold Corruption by Lawson Akhigbe

In 1999, Olusegun Obasanjo and Atiku Abubakar rode into Aso Rock together, a presidential double act that Nigerians assumed would age like most political marriages: quietly, then not at all. They survived one term. They won a second in 2003. Then, somewhere in that second term, Obasanjo discovered a constitutional itch that the 1999 Constitution's two term, eight year ceiling on the presidency simply would not scratch. He wanted a third term. Atiku, nursing a presidential ambition of his own and possessed of the inconvenient habit of reading the Constitution literally, said so publicly. The friendship ended there.

https://lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/07/twenty-years-late-and-several-republics-short-on-ej-atiku-and-nigerias-habit-of-reheating-cold-corruption-by-lawson-akhigbe/

#accountability #apc #argument #attitude #blowhard #bombastic

Centre for Nigeria Progress @[email protected] · 2026-09-07 · 16:00 UTC

Twenty Years Late and Several Republics Short: On EJ, Atiku and Nigeria’s Habit of Reheating Cold Corruption by Lawson Akhigbe

In 1999, Olusegun Obasanjo and Atiku Abubakar rode into Aso Rock together, a presidential double act that Nigerians assumed would age like most political marriages: quietly, then not at all. They survived one term. They won a second in 2003. Then, somewhere in that second term, Obasanjo discovered a constitutional itch that the 1999 Constitution's two term, eight year ceiling on the presidency simply would not scratch. He wanted a third term. Atiku, nursing a presidential ambition of his own and possessed of the inconvenient habit of reading the Constitution literally, said so publicly. The friendship ended there.

https://lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/07/twenty-years-late-and-several-republics-short-on-ej-atiku-and-nigerias-habit-of-reheating-cold-corruption-by-lawson-akhigbe/

#accountability #apc #argument #attitude #blowhard #bombastic

Centre for Nigeria Progress @[email protected] · 2026-09-07 · 12:00 UTC

The Union Jack Won’t Fix Britain: Farage, Braverman and the Politics of National Nostalgia by Lawson Akhigbe

When a political movement cannot quite explain where Britain should go, it apparently finds comfort in explaining where Britain used to be.

https://lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/07/the-union-jack-wont-fix-britain-farage-braverman-and-the-politics-of-national-nostalgia-by-lawson-akhigbe/

#accountability #argument #attitude #blowhard #bombastic #brexitnationalism

Centre for Nigeria Progress @[email protected] · 2026-09-07 · 12:00 UTC

The Union Jack Won’t Fix Britain: Farage, Braverman and the Politics of National Nostalgia by Lawson Akhigbe

When a political movement cannot quite explain where Britain should go, it apparently finds comfort in explaining where Britain used to be.

https://lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/07/the-union-jack-wont-fix-britain-farage-braverman-and-the-politics-of-national-nostalgia-by-lawson-akhigbe/

#accountability #argument #attitude #blowhard #bombastic #brexitnationalism

Centre for Nigeria Progress @[email protected] · 2026-09-07 · 12:00 UTC

The Union Jack Won’t Fix Britain: Farage, Braverman and the Politics of National Nostalgia by Lawson Akhigbe

When a political movement cannot quite explain where Britain should go, it apparently finds comfort in explaining where Britain used to be.

https://lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/07/the-union-jack-wont-fix-britain-farage-braverman-and-the-politics-of-national-nostalgia-by-lawson-akhigbe/

#accountability #argument #attitude #blowhard #bombastic #brexitnationalism

Centre for Nigeria Progress @[email protected] · 2026-09-07 · 12:00 UTC

The Union Jack Won’t Fix Britain: Farage, Braverman and the Politics of National Nostalgia by Lawson Akhigbe

When a political movement cannot quite explain where Britain should go, it apparently finds comfort in explaining where Britain used to be.

https://lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/07/the-union-jack-wont-fix-britain-farage-braverman-and-the-politics-of-national-nostalgia-by-lawson-akhigbe/

#reformuklimited #racist #racism #parliamentarystatus #optics #nigelfarage

Centre for Nigeria Progress @[email protected] · 2026-09-07 · 12:00 UTC

The Union Jack Won’t Fix Britain: Farage, Braverman and the Politics of National Nostalgia by Lawson Akhigbe

When a political movement cannot quite explain where Britain should go, it apparently finds comfort in explaining where Britain used to be.

https://lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/07/the-union-jack-wont-fix-britain-farage-braverman-and-the-politics-of-national-nostalgia-by-lawson-akhigbe/

#accountability #argument #attitude #blowhard #bombastic #brexitnationalism

Jens Oliver Meiert @[email protected] · 2026-09-06 · 18:26 UTC

Should your political representatives be allowed to put another country before your country, including when this is against your and your country’s interests?

(For example, as an American, would/do you approve of your representatives to put Israel before the US?)

#nationality #loyalty #citizenship

#citizenship #loyalty #nationality

Centre for Nigeria Progress @[email protected] · 2026-09-06 · 16:00 UTC