Can Tinubu dvice Governors On What He Controls? By Emmanuel Aziken
President Bola Tinubu’s extraordinary intervention in the freezing of an Osun State Government account by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has brought into sharp relief a question that has increasingly shadowed his presidency: who exactly acts in the President’s name, and how much of what is done around him carries his prior knowledge and approval? […]
The secret fears of Jonathan
By Emmanuel Aziken After years of being neither here nor there, President Goodluck Jonathan this week came out to endorse the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP presidential ticket for the 2023 election. He did so during a visit to him by PDP vice-presidential candidate, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa. The endorsement ordinarily should not have been news given the fact […]
Aisha Buhari and Bola Tinubu: The untold story
By Emmanuel Aziken When Governor Nyesom Wike last September alleged that a powerful element in the Presidential Villa was supporting opposition presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, it helped to fuel suspicions on the intentions of the Muhammadu Buhari presidency in 2023. Wike’s hypothesis was that the support from the powerful element in the Presidential Villa was responsible for […]
Lalong Vs Dogara: The unfolding battle in the Christian North
By Emmanuel Aziken A picture of the increasingly vicious battle within the Northern Christian community of Nigeria over the Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress, APC emerged this week in the vicious media war between Governor Simon Lalong and former Speaker Yakubu Dogara. Incidentally, both are chieftains of the All Progressives Congress, APC. Lalong is […]
Understanding the opinion poll on Obi, Atiku, Tinubu
By Emmanuel Aziken It was understandable that the Tinubu Campaign Organisation was outraged over the outcome of the ANAP NOI polls that put Peter Obi as the leading candidate for the 2023 presidential election. The study puts Obi as the choice of 21% of Nigerians with Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar coming a joint […]
Tinubu and Ndigbo: The continuing paradox
By Emmanuel Aziken The release of a video, earlier this week, in which the prospective First Lady of Nigeria, Senator Remi Tinubu was seen heckling the Igbo, chastising them for always failing to follow the political mainstream in Lagos was particularly distressing. It was particularly so for some of us who have hailed her activities […]
