Tag: Idowu Akinlotan, Kogi, Kogi News, Opinion, Yahaya Bello
Gov Bello Reinforces Kogi Tragedy
When the top hats of the All Progressives Congress (APC) plotted furiously to impose Yahaya Bello on Kogi State as governor in place of Abubakar Audu, the deceased...
Farce and Incompetence in Bello’s Kogi
GOVERNOR Yahaya Bello, the so-called digital governor of Kogi State, spent the better part of one year and two successive panels screening the state’s workforce for...
Kogi Gov Polls: How and Where The Supreme Court Erred
The Supreme Court last month decided the Kogi governorship election petition in favour of Governor Yahaya Bello. The apex court may be final, says Bimbo Adewale, LL.M,...
Kogi Election: Where Are The Dissenting Judgements?
It is inconceivable that given the extreme controversiality of the Kogi election petition there was no dissenting judgement. Yet, in the past five years, it is doubtful...
Opinion: Kogi’s Judicial and Election Debacles
ON the surface, Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has won a major judicial battle to entrench his reign after James Abiodun Faleke and other petitioners exhausted...
Opinion: Can Supreme Court Disentangle Kogi Paradox?
When the Appeal Court returned judgement unanimously in favour of Governor Yahaya Bello on August 4, there was no rejoicing anywhere in Kogi State except inside the...
Kogi State Govt: Active, Indulgent and Retrograde
By Idowu Akinlotan. Kogi State under Governor Yahaya Bello is probably the most feverishly active state in Nigeria. But it is also probably the most incontestably...
Tragedy in Kogi State
By Idowu Akinlotan Tomorrow, the Kogi governorship election tribunal sitting in Abuja will begin delivering judgement in the disputed November 2015 governorship election...
Kogi Bites the Wrong Bullet on Inauguration by Idowu Akinlotan
The headline of this piece is used guardedly in the sense that the ordinary Kogite is understandably not part of the charade of Wednesday’s inauguration of Yahaya...
#KogiDecides: Kogi’s Sponsored Elders by Idowu Akinlotan
In Kogi State, they are not content with letting bad enough alone. After nurturing what they like to happily describe as an inconclusive November 21 governorship...
