Author: Hashim Suleiman

FOR those who may not know, considering that I am a journalist and he is a politician, the first time I knew Ambassador Umar Iliya Damagum, the Acting National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), was in 1977, some 48 years ago. When God brought us together at Government College Maiduguri, we were both teenagers, eager and ready to dive headlong into the world of adventure. We wanted to survey the world, savour its mysteries, learn from the experience it would offer us, become better humans, and collect the baton from those we saw at its helm. Five years…

WITH proper lucidity, you could recall how post 2015, everyone hoped that then President Buhari would exemplify his army General tendency and exert tough decisions for the betterment of the nation, alas it was all hope for so many for the entire eight years that had nothing more than the entrenchment of mediocrity that ended up becoming a bane. As for some of us, we dropped from that hope early enough because there was not critical signaling to any meaningful accomplishments, where there is no criticality, it will be foolhardy to expect magic. It is not even as if Buhari…