Trump’s Letter, Atiku’s Lobbyists and old American stories about Tinubu, by Emmanuel Aziken
Politics is often less about the event itself than about the timing of the event. A document released today may have been written weeks earlier, but when it surfaces at a politically sensitive moment, it immediately acquires a meaning far beyond its contents. That is the context in which the recent exchange involving President Bola Tinubu, former […]
The mystery with Atiku that Na‘Abba took to the grave, By Emmanuel Aziken
Na‘Abba became the speaker of the House ofRepresentatives by the accident of the foolery of his predecessor, Salisu Buhari who was helped to office by the executive branch
Would Tinubu as Governor have accepted the directives to Fubara? By Emmanuel Aziken
President Bola Tinubu has been a fighter on both sides in the contestation of power between the presidency and governors. Last Monday and for the umpteenth time since his inauguration as president, Tinubu more than ever before brought to the fore his determination to use his new podium in the presidency to dominate his environment. We have […]
Why Nigerian politicians prefer cancer to malaria, By Emmanuel Aziken
What was supposed to be the 56th birthday memorial of Nyesom Wike turned into a national political spectacle last Wednesday with weird political recitals in Rivers and Abuja. A day before the birthday, and in an earth-shaking development, it was announced that 27 of the 31 PDP legislators in the 32-member Rivers State House of Assembly had […]
Shaibu’s Sins as sop for sainthood, By Emmanuel Aziken
Shaibu’s particular slant of ungratefulness had earlier been projected by his cavalier denunciation of the man he once claimed as his father, Comrade Oshiomhole at the height of the quarrel between him and Obaseki.
The emergence of King Wike
Undoubtedly, one of the longest political survivors of the Fourth Republic, Mr Nyesom Wike achieved another feat this week when he emerged as the undisputed leader of two major political parties in his Rivers State. The appointment of his Man Friday, Tony Okocha as chairman of the seven-man caretaker committee of the All Progressives Congress, […]
