A case for the “Igbo ranch”, by Ochereome Nnanna
This is a necessary sequel to my article last week titled: “Owo Ranch: Attention, Gov. Peter Mbah!” You may have, like me, wondered why Governor Mbah would carve out over 10,000 hectares for the ranch project at his hometown, Owo, in Nkanu East LGA of Enugu State. Since his government has remained mute on the […]
Why the Atiku, Wike standoff matters
By Ochereome Nnanna THE three major parties – All Progressives Congress, APC; Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Labour Party, LP – are important to our democracy because the next president of Nigeria will emerge from one of them next year. In Nigeria, after God, the president is next in terms of power, authority and influence. […]
Risky politics of ‘placeholders’
By Ochereome Nnanna A NEW word has crept into our political lexicon. Before, it was known as “proxy”. Now it has a more glamorous moniker: “placeholder”: the act of sending a dummy to stand in for a candidate for a certain political office pending the completion of other “underground spiritual games” as Fela would say. […]
Tinubu’s Muslim/Muslim ticket obsession
By Ochereome Nnanna THE chances are that, by the time you read this article, the major presidential candidates – Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP; Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC; and Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP, would have announced their running mates. Of the lot, Tinubu’s matter matters […]
Buhari’s last-minute dissemble
By Ochereome Nnanna PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari’s handling of the presidential primaries of the All Progressives Congress, APC, is a military tactic of creating confusion to achieve a short-term goal. This is unlike the “direct attack” methods used by his predecessors. Since 1999, two departing leaders have handed over power to their preferred successors. In 1999, […]
Did Wike just run for president?
By Ochereome Nnanna DID Nyesom Wike, the Governor of Rivers State, really imagine himself a president of Nigeria? As a lawyer, former local government chairman, chief of staff to a governor, minister and now two-term Governor of Rivers State, Wike is eminently qualified. But his bad mouth, bellicosity and lack of temperance have just robbed […]
