By Emmanuel Aziken The camp of All Progressives Congress, APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu was ecstatic on Friday morning after it emerged that President Muhammadu Buhari had agreed to campaign for him in ten states of the country. The news was relayed by Olorogun Festus Keyamo, the spokesman of the Tinubu Campaign in a […]

By Emmanuel Aziken President Muhammadu Buhari’s state visit to Kogi State last Thursday was arguably an opener to the secrets of the Governor Yahaya Bello legacy in infrastructure. While the president commissioned a number of projects during the state visit, the most emotive for many people may be the Reference Hospital in Okene. That hospital is acclaimed […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]