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ATIKU ABUBAKAR: THE STUFF OF GREATNESS

Aare AmerijoyeJune 14, 2026

Aare Amerijoye DOT.B History is no gentle archivist. It is a savage sculptor, hammer raised and chisel biting, smashing away the rubble of the forgettable until only the immortal are left standing in the stone. And when the dust of this turbulent age finally settles, when the pretenders and their borrowed crowns have been swept...

MY TAKE ON THE NASS CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PROPOSAL FOR STATE POLICE IN NIGERIA

Aare AmerijoyeJune 13, 2026

INTRODUCTIONThe proposed constitutional amendment establishing State Police in Nigeria is considerably more sophisticated than previous attempts at decentralizing policing. It incorporates several constitutional safeguards designed to prevent political abuse and ensure professional standards. Nevertheless, a careful examination of federal policing systems in the United States, Canada, Australia, Germany, India and Brazil reveals a number of...

THE SCHOOL THAT MADE THE MAN: SHEHU MUSA YAR’ADUA, THE PEOPLE’S FRONT AND THE FOUR PRINCIPLES THAT FOUND THEIR MOST PERFECT VESSEL IN ATIKU ABUBAKAR

Aare AmerijoyeJune 13, 2026

Aare Amerijoye DOT.B THE CHARGE HAS BEEN MADE IN OPEN DAYLIGHT and it must be answered in open daylight. The charge is that Atiku Abubakar is a religious bigot, a tribal champion and a Fulani hegemonist pursuing the Nigerian presidency not as a national leader but as the vanguard of a northern Islamic ethnic project...

ATIKU REMAINS THEIR HEADACHE

Aare AmerijoyeJune 10, 2026

THE MIGRAINE THEY CANNOT CURE Aare Amerijoye DOT.B There is a name in Nigerian politics that does not need a microphone to fill a room. It enters before the man does. It sits at the table of his enemies and eats first. It walks through the corridors of Aso Rock at midnight and leaves the...

THE THRONE BEFORE THE PEOPLE: OKPEBHOLO AND THE MOST REVEALING SENTENCE OF THE TINUBU ERA

Aare AmerijoyeJune 10, 2026

Aare Amerijoye DOT.B Every era of misrule eventually produces its own epitaph, spoken not by its enemies but by its defenders. On Tuesday, 9 June 2026, at Urhokpota Hall in Benin City, Governor Monday Okpebholo of Edo State supplied it. “They can even kidnap all of us. Yes, there is no vacancy in Aso Rock.”...

THE ANATOMY OF A FRIGHTENED PROPAGANDIST

Aare AmerijoyeJune 6, 2026

A REPLY TO ALAYANDE ADENIYI SUNDAY Aare Amerijoye DOT.B THERE ARE MOMENTS IN THE LIFE OF A NATION when the quality of its political discourse sinks so catastrophically low that silence becomes complicity. The piece authored by one Alayande Adeniyi Sunday against the presidential candidacy of Atiku Abubakar is one such moment. It is not...

DASHED HOPES IS NOT A HEADLINE. UNDER TINUBU, IT IS A GOVERNMENT PROGRAMME.

Aare AmerijoyeJune 6, 2026

TINUBU SPREADING AGONIES, MISERIES, SUFFERING IN NIGERIA HE MUST BE VOTED OUT COME JANUARY 16, 2027 Aare Amerijoye DOT.B THE SHAKESPEARE THAT FOUND ME AGAIN I was not looking for Shakespeare. I was rummaging through the accumulated sediment of a life spent in books and struggle, that particular corner of my reading room in Ado...

ANOTHER FOUR YEARS OF APC IS NOT HARD TO IMAGINE — AND THAT IS PRECISELY THE HORROR

Aare AmerijoyeJune 6, 2026

Aare Amerijoye DOT.B ANOTHER FOUR YEARS OF APC is not hard to imagine. We do not need a prophet. We need only eyes. We need only the evidence of our own lives. We know what another four years of APC looks like because we are already living inside it. It is not a forecast. It...

THE REPUBLIC OF RANSOM

Aare AmerijoyeJune 5, 2026

How Nigeria Was Surrendered To The Gun, And Why 16 January 2027 Is The Day We Take It Back Aare Amerijoye DOT.B There is a sound that now defines the Nigeria of Bola Ahmed Tinubu. It is not the hum of factories. It is not the laughter of children walking to school. It is the...

ATIKU ABUBAKAR: THE INEVITABLE MAN

Aare AmerijoyeMay 23, 2026

Aare Amerijoye DOT.B The Man There are politicians. There are statesmen. And then, once in the long and turbulent life of a nation, there arrives a figure who is neither adequately described by the first word nor fully contained by the second. Atiku Abubakar is that figure for Nigeria. He is the only man alive...

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OBASANJO’S REPEATED CRITICISM OF ATIKU AND THE ROAD TO 2027.

THE RULE OF LAW, NOT POLITICAL PROPAGANDA: WHY THE WILLIAM JEFFERSON CASE CANNOT LEGALLY IMPLICATE ATIKU ABUBAKAR

BABA, THIS BITTERNESS IS COSTING YOU MORE THAN IT IS COSTING ATIKU.