Tinubu’s daughter roars as his Lagos empire quakes, by Emmanuel Aziken
Just a week ago, your correspondent quietly and perhaps discreetly painted a picture of the emerging problems President Bola Tinubu is facing in his Lagos political base, using the drama around Nollywood actor and lawmaker, Desmond Elliot, as a window into the unfolding tension. The Desmond Elliot story helped to show how the President has, over time, […]
So, what happened to Buhari?
By Emmanuel Aziken The news that President Muhammadu Buhari was staying back in the United Kingdom for another one week after the end of the coronation of His Majesty, King Charles III for the purpose of keeping an appointment with his dentist was shocking to many. The president had travelled penultimate Wednesday, three days ahead […]
Where Is Rotimi Amaechi?
By Emmanuel Aziken The outing of the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to Rivers State earlier this week inadvertently gave a preview of how the politics in the All Progressives Congress, APC may play out after May 29. The visit was remarkable in several respects among which was the fact that Tinubu chose to visit a […]
Is this Wase wise enough to be speaker?
By Emmanuel Aziken The return of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to the country and the attendant rev in political activities undoubtedly underline the fact that business would certainly not be the same in a Tinubu presidency as it has been in the Muhammadu Buhari administration. Under Buhari things were at most humdrum with the pace and […]
And Chelsea FC: When bad coaches take charge
By Emmanuel Aziken The comprehensive 4-0 defeat of one of the world’s most esteemed football clubs, Chelsea FC by Real Madrid in the Champions League tournament indeed resonates with the fate and misfortunes of Nigeria. Chelsea in the last year topped in the footballers’ spending market, expending $305 million in the transfer market. That was […]
Yahaya Bello: When a Lion moves with power and subtility
By Emmanuel Aziken The primaries of the All Progressives Congress, APC to choose a flag bearer for the party in the November governorship election in Kogi State was ongoing as at press time yesterday. Though the result of the election was yet to be declared, what was incontrovertible was the fact that the man who […]
May God bless Obasanjo
By Emmanuel Aziken President Olusegun Obasanjo’s enduring imprint in the Nigerian story again came to the fore this week in two different interventions. In the first instance it emerged that the former Nigerian leader had intervened in the sorry case of Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife who were recently convicted along with a Nigerian […]
Comma in the caution from DSS
By Emmanuel Aziken The Department of State Services, DSS trended this week after the internal police issued a statement of caution over an alleged plot by some political actors to install an interim government. The DSS in the statement said it had identified the political actors involved and went further to insinuate the stages that […]
The joy in Abia and the gloom in Nigeria
By Emmanuel Aziken The landscape in Abia State burst out in unbridled expression of joy last Wednesday evening after the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC finally declared the outcome of the governorship election in the state. The joy was so effusive that even the outgoing state governor, Dr Okeize Ikpeazu under whose name some folks […]
Plateau, Lagos, Edo and other exciting election battles of today
By Emmanuel Aziken Nigerians go to the polls today to elect governors in 28 states of the federation. The eight states not conducting governorship elections, however, will join the other states in electing brand new state legislative houses. Given the constitutional powers of the state legislative houses in determining the fate of governors, it is […]
An attempt to defend Professor Mahmood Yakubu
By Emmanuel Aziken Against the background of dashed hopes and the intrigues that shadowed the conduct of the 2023 presidential election, it is difficult for anyone with a clear conscience to rush to the defence of Prof Mahmood Yakubu, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Given that Yakubu is a professor of […]
