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 […]
Soludo’s Cat and Mouse game with Peter Obi
By Emmanuel Aziken Governor Chukwuma Soludo stirred not a little controversy when he received Atiku Abubakar on Thursday and dubbed him one of two serious contenders in the presidential contest. Soludo’s decision to narrow down the presidential contest to two persons left many wandering as to who besides his assumed favourite, that is Atiku, was the other […]
Understanding Tinubu’s Buga Dance
By Emmanuel Aziken Only very few have seen Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in such a buoyant mood as he was last Monday as the APC presidential candidate and his team members swayed to the beats of African music legend, Kizz Daniel in a London restaurant. All the stress that many of us had seen on the […]
Sweet and sour tales about Aisha Buhari and the next First Lady
By Emmanuel Aziken With Nigerians closely monitoring the activities of the major presidential candidates, it is not surprising that their wives are now turning into an issue in the campaign. The focus on the wives of the candidates have been especially ignited by the actions and inactions of the outgoing First Lady, Aisha Buhari. After […]
Why Tinubu and Atiku are collaborating against Obi
By Emmanuel Aziken When two weeks ago Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar bumped into one another at the Abuja Airport, greeting one another cheerfully, some of their ignorant supporters may have been very aghast. How come the men we are fighting for are smiling and sharing banters, the very ignorant supporters may have wondered. […]
Oshiomhole and Wike: The friendship of Obaseki’s enemies
By Emmanuel Aziken Perhaps no other two persons have stirred political drama in Nigeria’s South-South region in the Fourth Republic than Governors Nyesom Wike and the comrade governor, Adams Oshiomhole. The sight of Governor Wike commissioning his numerous projects and the praise singers cheering ‘Nyesom Wike pepper dem well, pepper dem well…as eh dey sweet […]
Ekweremadu: A Senate without shame
By Emmanuel Aziken I recently heard the intriguing story from a frontline source of how a former Nigerian senator who strolled the country with a thick escort of security men was almost scandalized as he arrived London in a commercial plane many years ago. As he arrived Heathrow, he got to know somehow that he […]
New revelations on Yahaya Bello
By Emmanuel Aziken The recent news that Kogi State had become the first state in Northern Nigeria to receive money from oil derivation was remarkable. Above the past chorus and agitation for oil exploration in the Bauchi trough and other vaunted ambitions of some Northerners to put ‘noisy’ Niger Delta people in their place, the […]
Keyamo’s costly mistake throwing stones from a glass house
By Emmanuel Aziken It was undoubtedly a very costly mistake on the part of Festus Keyamo, SAN, when last weekend he made comparisons between Seyi Tinubu and the children of Peter Obi, in their capacities for political mobilization. Basking in the successful turnout for Tinubu in the youth rally organized for him by his son, […]
Delta 2023: Understanding Ibori’s Option To Disgrace
By Emmanuel Aziken Reacting to yesterday’s Supreme Court judgement on the dispute over the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s governorship ticket in Delta State, one enthusiast in a Delta WhatsApp forum said “Congratulations to Sheriff! A bigger Congratulation to APC.” The sarcasm was easily understood by many. Ahead of the court judgment, there was a report […]
The secret fears of Jonathan
By Emmanuel Aziken After years of being neither here nor there, President Goodluck Jonathan this week came out to endorse the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP presidential ticket for the 2023 election. He did so during a visit to him by PDP vice-presidential candidate, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa. The endorsement ordinarily should not have been news given the fact […]
Aisha Buhari and Bola Tinubu: The untold story
By Emmanuel Aziken When Governor Nyesom Wike last September alleged that a powerful element in the Presidential Villa was supporting opposition presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, it helped to fuel suspicions on the intentions of the Muhammadu Buhari presidency in 2023. Wike’s hypothesis was that the support from the powerful element in the Presidential Villa was responsible for […]
Lalong Vs Dogara: The unfolding battle in the Christian North
By Emmanuel Aziken A picture of the increasingly vicious battle within the Northern Christian community of Nigeria over the Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress, APC emerged this week in the vicious media war between Governor Simon Lalong and former Speaker Yakubu Dogara. Incidentally, both are chieftains of the All Progressives Congress, APC. Lalong is […]
Understanding the opinion poll on Obi, Atiku, Tinubu
By Emmanuel Aziken It was understandable that the Tinubu Campaign Organisation was outraged over the outcome of the ANAP NOI polls that put Peter Obi as the leading candidate for the 2023 presidential election. The study puts Obi as the choice of 21% of Nigerians with Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar coming a joint […]
Tinubu and Ndigbo: The continuing paradox
By Emmanuel Aziken The release of a video, earlier this week, in which the prospective First Lady of Nigeria, Senator Remi Tinubu was seen heckling the Igbo, chastising them for always failing to follow the political mainstream in Lagos was particularly distressing. It was particularly so for some of us who have hailed her activities […]
Shekarau, Kwankwaso and the politics of zero principle
By Emmanuel Aziken The political landscape in the country was enlivened last Monday after the penultimate governor of Kano State, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau defected from the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The defection of Mallam as he used to be popularly called in the days of yore was his second entry […]
