And Tinubu Blinked, by Emmanuel Aziken
For too long, President Bola Tinubu and officials of his administration have celebrated the removal of petrol subsidy as perhaps the defining demonstration of his courage in governance. To his supporters, it was evidence of a president prepared to take decisions his predecessors could not fully implement. Among Tinubu’s four predecessors in the Fourth Republic […]
Fani-Kayode: The unauthorized obituary
By Emmanuel Aziken The stage for the articulation of Chief Femi Fani-Kayode’s political obituary was set in 2019 when rumours of his possible defection to the All Progressives Congress, APC surfaced. Responding at that time, the former minister who had served as communication director in the Goodluck Jonathan 2015 Presidential Campaign said that he would […]
Wike’s wicked project
By Emmanuel Aziken Despite his sometimes seemingly loud interventions, Governor Nyesom Wike is appearing to be a master in using the law to upturn permutations. Few would remember how in 2013, Wike using the seeming gaffes in the operational guidelines of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was able to take control of the party’s structure […]
Cabinet Change: Why Akpabio and … should fear
President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent vow not to leave office a failure may have translated into the unprecedented sack of two of his ministers last Wednesday. As has been reported everywhere, it is the first time that the president has sacked a minister since his advent six years ago. That is despite the avalanche of evidence […]
When is Amosun visiting Tinubu in London?
The regular pilgrimage of elements from Nigeria’s leading political class to the London home of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has again shown the political sagacity of one of Nigeria’s greatest political icons of the Fourth Republic. It is indeed superfluous to say that no one among the 1999 class of governors has remained as viable as […]
Ayade’s failed grammar against PIB
It was alleged in some quarters that President Muhammadu Buhari was so determined to bring the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB to life that he did not mind breaking the COVID-19 quarantine he had been confined to after his foreign medical vacation to sign the bill. His action, however, has been met with controversy from across […]
