How Natasha-Akpoti Uduaghan Is Redressing Nigerian Politics

 By Collins Adaka

Since the advent of the Fourth Republic in 1999, politics in Nigeria has gone haywire. Politicians no longer deliver on their promises having made so many alluring ones during campaigns.

*Akpoti-Uduaghan 

To them, the political romance has come to an inevitable end. What else can we do? Until the next election, they come again with even more captivating and better promises, and so, once again we fall victims.

They get richer and richer while we, as Nigerians get poorer and poorer. Such is the elusive bond we have with our politicians and such is our way of life concerning politics in Nigeria. Therefore, life in present day Nigeria is brutish and hellish.

Lessons From Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan’s Victory

 By Ayo Oyoze Baje

“Success is not measured by the position you reach, but by the obstacles you overcome” – John Harold Johnson( late publisher of Ebony Magazine)

*Natasha 
She is a rare breed; an iconic combination of brilliance, beauty, and boldness. But more than these, she has become a jinx-breaker of some sort, making history by becoming the first Ihima-born politician to climb up to the pedestal of senator-ship, in Nigeria’s chequered history of democracy.