I Belong to Everybody and I Belong to Nobody: A Focus on the National Assembly Leadership Election By Terfa Naswem

When President Muhammadu Buhari said in his inauguration speech that: “I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody”,  I was very impressed and knew that our democracy would be reborn and nurtured by leaders whose  spirits of patriotism for Nigeria never lingered despite how most unpatriotic leaders projected their personal interests above the collective interest of Nigerians.

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Tinubu tamed, PDP regroups, Buhari baffled… and other takes from Tuesday Thriller

It was a development foretold but it was equally an eloquent testimony to the veracity of that ageless axiom: history has a way of repeating itself.

Before appraising the emergence of Abubakar Bukola Saraki as senate president and the crowning of Yakubu Dogara as speaker of the house of representatives, you have to rewind to early June 2011. The then ruling PDP had zoned the speakership to the south-west.

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