The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Thursday February 24th, 2022 – National Toast Day
National Toast Day. Toasting bread is such a simple concept, that it’s almost impossible to put a finger on a particular day on the calendar and say that day was when toast was invented. After all, bread is approximately 8,000 years old, and we’re sure that many people over those thousands of years have toasted their bread over a fire.
Vice Presidency And The Power Game by Kola King
The recent publication and launch of My Participations, an autobiography of former governor of Osun State, Chief Bisi Akande opened a can of worms as it relates to the intrigues that attended the choice of a vice presidential candidate for the newly formed All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2015. Back then, the flag bearer of the party, General Muhammadu Buhari was under tremendous pressure to pick former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as his running mate. However, realpolitik dictated that a Muslim-Muslim ticket would be a hard sell. In the end, Yemi Osinbajo, a law professor and former Attorney-General of Lagos State was picked as Buhari’s running mate.
So why the jostling for a position that’s more or less ceremonial and lacks real power? Indeed the president is the custodian of real power and authority. Nobody at the moment doubts where the real power lies. Besides the president is the focus and locus of power as envisaged by the Constitution. Yet a vice-president who has the ears of the president could combine influence and a measure of power. The important thing is to have a good chemistry between both parties.
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Ouch #poem by George Cassidy Payne
“That’s what you get for
spinning around
incoherently, blissed
out to Roberta Flack
nailing Leonard Cohen”
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Screws & Chips #025 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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