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Soludo’s civic engagement and critics rant of mischief
By Christian ABURIME
There is a peculiar irony in watching a supposedly learned activist who parades a platform called ‘Hungry and Angry Analytical’ and then proceeds to act tactless and offer analyses that are neither enlightening nor accurate, but only hungry and angry ranting.
Just like other disgruntled elements who take sadistic delight in campaign of calumny, Dr. Chido A. A., the self-styled social media critic and convener of the aforementioned platform, has made a cottage industry out of confrontational attacks on Governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo’s administration in Anambra State. His latest salvo, targeting the Governor’s recent visit to London for a diaspora civic town hall meeting, is perhaps his most hollow and irresponsible yet. It is not an innocuous critique. It is political mischief dressed up as civic concern.
Let us be clear about what actually happened. Governor Soludo travelled to London to render an account of his first term in office to Ndi Anambra in the diaspora. This is not a jamboree; it is governance. The Governor did not abandon his job at home. He went to meet his state stakeholders who live and work abroad, who care deeply about the state of their homeland, and who deserve the same access to their elected leader as those at home.
What the Hungry and Angry rabble-rouser and his co-travellers miss, whether by ignorance or by design, is that citizens’ engagement is not a luxury Governor Soludo occasionally indulges. It is his governing philosophy. Long before the ballot box gave him the mandate, and consistently since, Governor Soludo has treated dialogue with the people as crucial to leadership.
His town hall meetings have spanned the United Kingdom, the United States, Abuja, and Lagos. Closer to home in Anambra, he has sat with traders, transporters, community leaders, and ordinary stakeholders, not for a show-off, but because he understands that responsive government requires that the governed be heard. These interactions, however quiet and unglamorous, are among the surest foundations of transparent governance.
Our Hungry and Angry analyst is of course free to criticise. Vigorous debate about governance is healthy, even necessary. But criticism that misrepresents the facts, that frames accountability as indulgence and civic duty as dereliction, does not serve Anambra people. It serves only the critic’s profile. When a platform built on anger mistakes disruption for analysis and provocation for insight, it forfeits the moral authority to hold anyone else to account. Ultimately, Ndi Anambra, at home and abroad, know the difference between a leader who shows up and a commentator who always rants.
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Breaking: Court of Appeal rules in favour of Turaki -led PDP candidate for Osun governorship election
The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, on Thursday, ruled that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Gubernatorial Candidate in Osun State was validly nominated by the Tanimu Turaki-led National Working Committee.
The court also ordered INEC to list the PDP logo on the ballot ahead of Saturday’s gubernatorial election.
The Court held that access code is neither a creation of the Constitution nor the Electoral Act; rather, a creation of INEC’s guidelines and cannot, in any way, override the provisions of the Constitution.
Section 288 of the Constitution does not specify the method for nominating candidates; it only states that the names of candidates should be forwarded to the Commission.
The court further held that the defendant (INEC) should take steps to include the name of the appellant on the ballot paper.
Additionally, the court ruled that the primary election conducted by the Tanimu Turaki-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP was a valid primary election in law.
The three-man panel of justices—Justice Mahmud, Justice Jaro, and Justice Ankawere, was unanimous in its judgment.
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Breaking: NHRC sets up situation room to monitor and document hate speech, intimidation, threat to life ahead 2027
The national Human Rights Commission, NHRC, has set up a situation room to monitor and document all incidences of hate speech, intimidation and threat to life by politicians and other actors ahead of the 2027 general election.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has expressed concerns over rising incidences of hate speech, intimidation and outright threat to life by highly placed individuals, especially politicians and religious leaders.
The Executive Secretary of the Commission, Chef Tony Ojukwu, SAN, revealed this on Thursday in Abuja at a press conference.
He said the situation room would enable the Commission harvest data, analysis and document persons, agencies and others involved in the negative statements in order to ensure they are properly tracked and brought to book by relevant agencies.
Ojukwu also took journalists on a tour of the newly set up situation room.
Details later…..
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Breaking: NHRC expresses concern over rising incidences of hate speech, threat to life ahead 2027 elections
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has expressed concerns over rising incidences of hate speech, intimidation and outright threat to life by highly placed individuals, especially politicians and religious leaders.
At a press conference in Abuja Thursday, the Executive Secretary of the Commission, Chef Tony Ojukwu, SAN, recalled statements credited to Senator Francis Fadahunsi and Sheikh Yahya Jingir and described the das dangerous with capacity to set the nation ablaze.
He called on politicians, religious and traditional rulers, among other stakeholders to call their supporters and faithful to orders.
He urged government to act before rhetorics turn to violence, saying the forthcoming election in Osun State should serve as example of Nigeria’s capacity to conduct political contest in compliance with international best practices.
Details later…..
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