LIZ Cheney, an American Republican legislator, has deliberately lost her re-election bid last week. I say “deliberately” because she and everyone else knew that she didn’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell of retaining her seat in Congress if she challenged former President Donald Trump (the de facto Republican Party leader) in a part of […]

By Donu Kogbara AS the Peter Obi bandwagon gathers momentum, I am immensely irritated by status quo merchants who doggedly insist that significant change is impossible and keep dishing out pessimistic analyses of Obi’s chances of winning the presidential election. One of my friends is convinced that Obi’s popularity is a mirage that only exists […]

By Donu Kogbara THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is no match for its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. This claim was contained in a statement signed by Debo Ologunagba, National Publicity Secretary of the party. The statement described Tinubu’s All Progressives Congress party, APC, as moribund, decrepit and crippled, adding that […]

By Donu Kogbara A LOT of politicians and pundits are extremely upset with President Muhammadu Buhari at the moment because he has expressed a desire to choose his successor. And I think we can all understand why Buhari’s “consensus-candidate-by-force” plan is so unpopular. Many professional commentators have no skin in the game and are therefore […]

By Donu Kogbara I AM not going to impose ANYBODY on this state! I WILL NOT DO IT! See what happened in Edo State…See what happened in Anambra and even here in Rivers with somebody (Rotimi Amaechi) that Dr Peter Odili created (and was later humiliated by). “You think me I will suffer the same […]