Can Tinubu Advice Governors On What He Controls? By Emmanuel Aziken
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu may have intended to offer straightforward governance advice when he urged state governors to focus less on grand infrastructure projects and more on addressing the immediate needs of ordinary Nigerians. Instead, his remarks may have ignited a much broader conversation, not only about governors’ priorities but also about the Federal Government’s own choices. The […]
Why Igbokwe hates Igbo champions
The picture of Lagos-based All Progressives Congress, APC chieftain, Mr Joe Igbokwe kneeling in thanksgiving upon news of the capture of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra, IPOB has stirred strong emotions. While the majority of Igbokwe’s ethnic group, the Igbo, do not subscribe to the rhetoric that have been associated […]
Lessons from APC’s bye-election loss in Kaduna
By Emmanuel Aziken The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, may have been accused of hypocrisy when it last weekend mocked Governor Nasir El-Rufai over his party’s loss of the State House of Assembly bye-election in Sabon-Gari, State Constituency, in Kaduna North. The PDP said that its victory in Kaduna, “particularly in the political melting point like […]
Grazing routes, bandit routes, and growth routes
By Emmanuel Aziken Disclaiming conspiracy theories of a presidency that had been hijacked by a few visible and invisible handlers, President Muhammadu Buhari last week came out to show himself and character as being behind the actions and inactions of his administration. His interview sessions with Arise Television, and subsequently with the state-owned, NTA, conveyed […]
Conversations on the Tweet
Alhaji Lia Ahmed, the country’s veteran opposition spokesman was bristling with indignation this Saturday morning at an interactive session with a select group of newspaper editors. The setting was in September 2014, months away from what many had predicted as a do or die election. “Even if this man did not have the opportunity of […]
APC’s deception on zoning
Since Kawu Samilla, one of the closest loyalists of President Muhammadu Buhari declared that the Southeast would not get the 2023 presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress, APC, your correspondent has been wondering the reaction of some Igbo chieftains of the ruling party. Kawu according to my sources was even hospitalized in Kano when […]
