Office Of The Citizen With Chude Jideonwo: What Nigerian Billionaires Should Consider Doing With All That Money
Do our billionaires believe in nothing? This question came to me just after I spent the past hour with one of the most striking young people I have met recently. While a good number of young people talk a good game about political participation and youth engagement beyond civil society, he has actually taken the […]
Not Too Young To Run Movement Response to Speaker Dogara
Press Release July 21, 2017 The Not Too Young To Run movement received with pleasure, the statement issued by the office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara reaffirming his commitment and that of the House of representatives to the passage of the Not Too Young to Run bill […]
Office of The Citizen with Chude Jideonwo: The High Standards to Which We Must Hold Our Leaders
I have heard this bit of nonsense constantly – seen it sometimes on social media, in comment boxes or random commentary: that because I actively, enthusiastically and unrepentantly threw personal and professional weight behind the election of a political office holder, I have somehow lost the moral right to speak out against him. Nonsense. As […]
Office of The Citizen with Chude Jideonwo: Today’s Nigerian Dream
Because we run a nation building company that is the continent’s leading expert on elections, we routinely sit in on meetings with politicians who want to be president, who want to explore being president, who want to push forward candidates who should be president, and who just want to brainstorm through what the presidency means […]
Chude Jideonwo: Dear President Buhari, You Have Broken Our Hearts
Two years ago to this day, you brought me to tears. You were in our nation’s capital, being inaugurated as the first Nigerian in our nation’s history to win the presidency from an opposition party. I was far away, in Lagos; but I had a cherished privilege: to be the one to publish the very […]