The discord and drama that once trailed relationships between governors and their predecessors in Enugu State seem to have been buried and it is no surprise that the incumbent governor seems to be drawing applause from friends and foes of his political platform.

Nigeria’s leading political actors were all about in the outgoing week projecting themselves and seemingly rewriting history. It was, however, a different matter for the majority of the apolitical class.

Loyalty is one of the most abused words in the vocabulary of the Nigerian political class.

One of the selling points used to market the political aspiration of President Muhammadu Buhari in the past was the claim that he was not the run of the mill politician.

Not many in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP were able to get at the skin of President Muhammadu Buhari’s government as Prince Dayo Adeyeye did between 2015 and 2016.

Last Wednesday’s mace snatching incident is the first recorded event of such in either of the two chambers of the National Assembly. However, similar incidents of mace snatching are not strange to State Houses of Assembly where political theatrics sometimes turn to physical exchange of blows by legislators.

The inept reaction of the PDP opposition, however, does not justify the disgusting dissonance on the part of the APC administration and its propagandists to the miserable conditions of the girls

Governor Godwin Obaseki understandably, would not want to see himself as a champion of the controversial but yet constructive proposal to prohibit grazing, especially given the fact that senior officials of the APC administration in Abuja have kicked against it

The seeming contradiction flows from Ekweremadu’s survival and successes in the system he is now criticising. Indeed, among the few politicians who have survived the bumpy theatrics that have been characteristic of Nigeria’s Fourth Republic, few would have stories to tell like Ekweremadu.

By Emmanuel Aziken Devotees of wild life television programmes know very well the hatred lions have for hyenas and jackals. It is that deep-seated mutual animosity that First Lady Aisha Buhari and Senator Shehu Sani drew on to illustrate the seemingly bestial inclination of the Nigerian political class. Hyenas and jackals move in packs and […]

Anyone wondering why the authorities in Abuja find it difficult to give Nigeria the required leadership should also consider the imperious inclinations of many of those in authority over smaller jurisdictions.

Just three years ago the imagination of Obong Godswill Akpabio playing second fiddle in the affairs of Akwa Ibom State seemed a near impossibility.

Some of the graduates delightfully introduced themselves by inserting OLUSEGUN as their middle name; a moving expression of their eternal loyalty to the former president

The story is told of how in the heat of the Obasanjo – Atiku feud in 2007 that the Gombe State government pulled down the roof of the Presidential Lodge in Gombe upon news that Atiku was coming to the state to campaign

The revelation that President Muhammadu Buhari for the second time in as many weeks did not appear for the meeting of the Federal Executive Council, FEC last Wednesday, had been set to upstage every other news item for the day and the coming weekend.