Umahi: How Mary, not Habila, destroyed a powerful senator, by Emmanuel Aziken
It was not merely the accident at Chappaquiddick that destroyed Senator Ted Kennedy’s lifelong ambition of becoming President of the United States. It was Mary. Mary Jo Kopechne. She was the young woman who died after Kennedy’s car plunged from a narrow bridge on Chappaquiddick Island in July 1969. Kennedy escaped from the submerged vehicle, but he […]
Anambra: Pros and Cons
By Emmanuel Aziken It was the belief in some quarters that leading lights of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the Southeast received the decision of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB to call-off the one week stay at home order to have taken off yesterday with mixed feelings The decision meant that voters in […]
Shocking new conspiracy tales on third term
By Emmanuel Aziken It was an irony that two of the leading men involved in the 2006 derailment of the third term amendment for the president and governors chose last Thursday to unfold their respective stories. Chief Raymond Dokpesi provided the media focus that mobilized the public and unnerved the architects of the amendment plot. […]
Oshiomhole laughs as Obaseki fights again
It was a shock seeing Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State ordering members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP opposed to his plans for harmonization of the executive of the party at all levels to leave the party. He spoke at a gathering of stakeholders where the decision to suspend the national vice-chairman of the […]
The rumour of Mrs Ganduje’s arrest and other contradictions
By Emmanuel Aziken It was remarkable that the Kano State Government came out within hours of the news of the alleged arrest of Prof. Hasfat Ganduje, wife of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, to debunk the news of the arrest. The government according to the statement ascribed the news of the arrest to rumours saying that neither […]
The retirement plan for Atiku and Tinubu
By Emmanuel Aziken Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu, two of the preeminent political actors in the country were in the mind of your correspondent last Thursday after the Zoning Committee of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP submitted its report on the distribution of party offices. Despite being national leaders of the two opposing dominant parties […]
