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 […]

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 […]

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 […]