By Emmanuel Aziken Despite his sometimes seemingly loud interventions, Governor Nyesom Wike is appearing to be a master in using the law to upturn permutations. Few would remember how in 2013, Wike using the seeming gaffes in the operational guidelines of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was able to take control of the party’s structure […]

President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent vow not to leave office a failure may have translated into the unprecedented sack of two of his ministers last Wednesday. As has been reported everywhere, it is the first time that the president has sacked a minister since his advent six years ago. That is despite the avalanche of evidence […]

The regular pilgrimage of elements from Nigeria’s leading political class to the London home of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has again shown the political sagacity of one of Nigeria’s greatest political icons of the Fourth Republic. It is indeed superfluous to say that no one among the 1999 class of governors has remained as viable as […]

It was alleged in some quarters that President Muhammadu Buhari was so determined to bring the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB to life that he did not mind breaking the COVID-19 quarantine he had been confined to after his foreign medical vacation to sign the bill. His action, however, has been met with controversy from across […]

It was amazing hearing Barrister Solomon Dalung, the immediate past minister of sports make what would ordinarily be regarded as a constructive critique of Nigeria’s woeful performance in the just-concluded Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. In the face of the fact that Nigeria won only one medal in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games supervised […]

The case for the immediate exit of Prince Uche Secondus from office as chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP is quite simple to many of his critics.  According to one of the canvassers, even nature is against the embattled national chairman as his name, Secondus, means that he would always lead the PDP to […]

For a man who made such a success in finance, it is amazing that Godwin Obaseki stayed much in the background in the eight years of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole until he was thrust into the limelight in the twilight of that administration. Remarkably, Obaseki’s political trajectory followed almost a similar pathway as two fellow bankers […]

After much dithering procrastination on the role he would play in the emergence of his successor, President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed to play a decisive role in the forthcoming 2023 presidential elections. Indeed, rarely has it been seen that a president anywhere did otherwise. The only idea of a president in Nigeria playing a role […]

In its years in power the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was flayed for being undemocratic by critics, especially in its internal affairs. With the All Progressives Congress, APC in power, the current ruling party is now being flayed as unprogressive Apparently, ruling parties in Nigeria have a problem keeping to the meaning of the middle […]

Just as Peter denied Jesus three times before his appointment with death about 1,990 years ago, Ms Lauretta Onochie last Thursday denied membership of the All Progressives Congress, APC three times before the Senate Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Her denial of membership of the APC could also be mirrored as a […]

The picture of Lagos-based All Progressives Congress, APC chieftain, Mr Joe Igbokwe kneeling in thanksgiving upon news of the capture of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra, IPOB has stirred strong emotions. While the majority of Igbokwe’s ethnic group, the Igbo, do not subscribe to the rhetoric that have been associated […]

By Emmanuel Aziken The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, may have been accused of hypocrisy when it last weekend mocked Governor Nasir El-Rufai over his party’s loss of the State House of Assembly bye-election in Sabon-Gari, State Constituency, in Kaduna North. The PDP said that its victory in Kaduna, “particularly in the political melting point like […]

By Emmanuel Aziken Disclaiming conspiracy theories of a presidency that had been hijacked by a few visible and invisible handlers, President Muhammadu Buhari last week came out to show himself and character as being behind the actions and inactions of his administration. His interview sessions with Arise Television, and subsequently with the state-owned, NTA, conveyed […]

Alhaji Lia Ahmed, the country’s veteran opposition spokesman was bristling with indignation this Saturday morning at an interactive session with a select group of newspaper editors. The setting was in September 2014, months away from what many had predicted as a do or die election. “Even if this man did not have the opportunity of […]

Since Kawu Samilla, one of the closest loyalists of President Muhammadu Buhari declared that the Southeast would not get the 2023 presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress, APC, your correspondent has been wondering the reaction of some Igbo chieftains of the ruling party. Kawu according to my sources was even hospitalized in Kano when […]