Can Tinubu Advice Governors On What He Controls? By Emmanuel Aziken
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu may have intended to offer straightforward governance advice when he urged state governors to focus less on grand infrastructure projects and more on addressing the immediate needs of ordinary Nigerians. Instead, his remarks may have ignited a much broader conversation, not only about governors’ priorities but also about the Federal Government’s own choices. The […]
How Andy Uba’s 200,000 APC supporters were stopped
By Emmanuel Aziken One of the most bombastic questions that arose from the fallouts of the Anambra governorship election was the issue of the whereabouts of the 200,000 All Progressives Congress, APC voters who endorsed Senator Andy Uba as the candidate during the party primaries. That question that had been sarcastically rehearsed and rephrased by […]
Tinubu’s quiet moves everywhere
Despite doomsday prophesies about the imminent political choking of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC continues to bestride the political landscape. Even to the bemusement of his political traducers, Tinubu continues to win support across the landscape despite his recent three-month medical holiday abroad.
Anambra: Pros and Cons
By Emmanuel Aziken It was the belief in some quarters that leading lights of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the Southeast received the decision of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB to call-off the one week stay at home order to have taken off yesterday with mixed feelings The decision meant that voters in […]
Shocking new conspiracy tales on third term
By Emmanuel Aziken It was an irony that two of the leading men involved in the 2006 derailment of the third term amendment for the president and governors chose last Thursday to unfold their respective stories. Chief Raymond Dokpesi provided the media focus that mobilized the public and unnerved the architects of the amendment plot. […]
Oshiomhole laughs as Obaseki fights again
It was a shock seeing Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State ordering members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP opposed to his plans for harmonization of the executive of the party at all levels to leave the party. He spoke at a gathering of stakeholders where the decision to suspend the national vice-chairman of the […]
The rumour of Mrs Ganduje’s arrest and other contradictions
By Emmanuel Aziken It was remarkable that the Kano State Government came out within hours of the news of the alleged arrest of Prof. Hasfat Ganduje, wife of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, to debunk the news of the arrest. The government according to the statement ascribed the news of the arrest to rumours saying that neither […]
The retirement plan for Atiku and Tinubu
By Emmanuel Aziken Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu, two of the preeminent political actors in the country were in the mind of your correspondent last Thursday after the Zoning Committee of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP submitted its report on the distribution of party offices. Despite being national leaders of the two opposing dominant parties […]
The NNPC Board Intrigues: Winners and losers
The minister of petroleum, that is Muhammadu Buhari, at the beginning of the week ordered the incorporation of the new Nigerian National Petroleum Company, Limited as envisaged by the new Petroleum Industry Act, PIA. Given his background as a petroleum minister under General Olusegun Obasanjo in the seventies, Buhari’s seeming speed in driving the reforms […]
Decision on zoning will be taken at appropriate time – PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its governors’ forum on Saturday said that a decision zoning of political offices would be made by the party at the appropriate time before the party convention, scheduled for October 30. The party and its governors’ forum stated this in separate statements issued in Abuja on Saturday in reaction […]
Fani-Kayode: The unauthorized obituary
By Emmanuel Aziken The stage for the articulation of Chief Femi Fani-Kayode’s political obituary was set in 2019 when rumours of his possible defection to the All Progressives Congress, APC surfaced. Responding at that time, the former minister who had served as communication director in the Goodluck Jonathan 2015 Presidential Campaign said that he would […]
