The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Wednesday January 11th, 2023
Prospects and Prognosis: 2023 will bring the true test of democracy by Kola King
2023 is a critical juncture for Nigeria. The year will determine whether Nigeria will go forward or go in the reverse direction. It is a magic year for Nigerians because the year will mark 24 years of unbroken democracy. At the same time, the general elections are slated for February. This is the longest democratic experiment since the nation attained independence in 1960. The first democratic dispensation lasted from October 1960 to January 1966. Thereafter mutinous soldiers seized power in a bloody military coup in January 1966 during which Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was killed. Later on, the Supreme Commander of the armed forces Major General Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi quelled the putschists and seized power emerging as the head of state. The Ironsi regime was short-lived and was overthrown in a bloody countercoup in July which led to the installation of Lt Col Yakubu Gowon as the new head of state. Prior to the military handover in 1999, there were several back-to-back coups and in between, there was a civilian interregnum led by President Shehu Shagari from 1979 to December 1983.
The past twenty-four years have seen power rotate between the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, which held power for sixteen years, and the All Progressives Congress, APC which has been in the saddle for almost eight years. Nigerians have had a taste of both parties and the experience has been mostly bitter-sweet. As if by a revolving door, Nigerians have witnessed how politicians have gravitated from the opposition to the ruling party and vice versa, an indication that both parties are more of the same thing. At any rate, a new president is expected to be elected as Nigerians head to the polls on February 25. Many analysts believe this is going to be a three-horse race between the candidates of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, the standard bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Labour Party candidate Mr. Peter Obi. It’s like going to uncharted frontiers.
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Waves of Warm Ocean #poem by Moustafa Al Yassin
“The noise of flame
Touching the eyelids with the flames of the missing
while the tears that running under there will never stop anything of the memory inside
And the wishes and the Iraqi poem
which passing between two wonders and a question”
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Mika Toxica #45 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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