The Profile of the Main Opposition Candidate Is Issa Tchiroma Bakary a Distractor or a Liberator? By The Afrisocrat Political Desk | 2025 Presidential Election Special Early Life & Education Born on 10 September 1949 in Garoua, northern Cameroon, Issa Tchiroma Bakary grew up in a respected family where his father served as an advisor to the Lamido. This upbringing instilled in him deep values of responsibility, discipline, and service to the community. After early schooling in Douala, he pursued technical training in transport and materials engineering before traveling to Paris. At the University of Paris (Jussieu), he prepared for a PhD in mathematics before redirecting his focus to mechanical engineering at ISMCM, graduating as a railway engineer. Returning home, he worked at Regifercam in Douala, embodying the discipline and pragmatism of a technocrat committed to service. Imprisonment & Political Rise In...
UMARU MUSA YAR’ADUA: THE PRESIDENT NIGERIANS WILL NEVER FORGET In the history of Nigeria, leaders have come and gone, some leaving scars and others leaving blessings. But in the brief window of just two years (2007–2010), one man came with humility, sincerity, and courage—and etched his name into our national memory forever. His name is Umaru Musa Yar’adua. A LEADER FOR ALL Yar’adua was a Muslim, yet Christians loved him. He was Hausa, yet the Igbo, Yoruba, Tiv, Ibibio, Efik, Ijaw, Kanuri, and every tribe saw him as one of their own. He did not rule as a northern president—he ruled as a Nigerian president. In a nation too often divided by tribe and religion, Yar’adua rose above it all and treated every region, every faith, and every citizen with equal dignity. THE PEACE MAKER OF THE NIGER DELTA When Yar’adua assumed office, the Niger Delta was aflame with militancy, oil installations were under siege, and the country was losing billions of dollars daily. With wisdom and compassio...