Political Notes

Tinubu’s Figures, Atiku’s Counter: Let the 2027 debate begin, by Emmanuel Aziken

Tinubu’s Figures, Atiku’s Counter: Let the 2027 debate begin, by Emmanuel Aziken

There was something remarkable about the political exchange that followed President Bola Tinubu’s Independence Day address on Thursday. It was not merely the sharpness of the disagreement. It was the speed. Within hours of the President presenting his economic record and declaring that Nigeria had reached a turning point, Atiku Abubakar was before the country […]
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Tinubu and Atiku: The story of common betrayal, By Emmanuel Aziken

Tinubu and Atiku: The story of common betrayal, By Emmanuel Aziken

The declaration of Tinubu as president by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC last February may have consumed whatever was left of their tenuous political relationship. The expense that Atiku put to unravel things that the president claims could cause him irreparable damage is shocking to some.

A Deputy Governor’s lessons in humility, By Emmanuel Aziken

A Deputy Governor’s lessons in humility, By Emmanuel Aziken

His apparent failure to manage Comrade forced him out of the All Progressives Congress, APC to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP where he was grudgingly accepted. Just as in the APC, Obaseki has had to fight with his benefactors, notably, Chief Dan Orbih who managed his re-election campaign in 2020.