Obi, Makinde and hurdles against opposition coalition
By TUNDE RAHMAN A fresh thaw in relations between National Democratic Congress presidential candidate Mr Peter Obi and Oyo State Governor Mr Seyi Makinde is fueling renewed talk of a possible opposition coalition to challenge President Bola Tinubu in 2027. The two leaders, who were on opposite sides during the 2023 election cycle, were seen […]
Obasanjo’s inappropriate criticism of Justice Idris
Former president Olusegun Obasanjo recently launched a stinging attack on the authority of the Federal High Court and the competence of Justice Mohammed Baba Idris after the judge ruled that details on the spending of recovered stolen public funds under Obasanjo’s government between May 1999 and May 2007 should be widely published including on a dedicated website.
Buhari, Fayose, Wike, Travel Bans and other Expensive Jokes
When news broke out late last week that President Muhammadu Buhari had allegedly placed travel bans on two governors of the opposition party, PDP, in the persons of governors Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State and Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, an already unsettled nation became even more distressed.
Real issues in the Niger Delta crisis
WHICH ever way you look at it, the root cause of the whole Niger Delta crisis is injustice. The truth will always come to light. The conspiracies of the old colonial masters, in tandem with the different international oil companies,IOCs, Shell, Mobil, Chevron, Total, Agip, etc and the activities of our dictatorial and uncaring federal government caused this situation we found ourselves, in not heeding to appeals for the basic rights of the minority oil producing nations,they have caused the manifestations of violent rebellions from the people. Isaac Boro started it in the ’60s and Ken Saro wiwa amplified it in the ’90s.
President Buhari’s Federal Excuses Council
On January 22, 2016, I tweeted a joke which went viral. I had said that at meetings of the Federal Executive Council, the minister of information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, would address members and say ‘turn to your neighbour and say, neighbour have you blamed Jonathan today’!
Overcoming a legacy of bitterness: Gov Wike’s greatest challenge
THE selection of Barrister Nyesom Wike as the PDP’s ticket bearer for the 2015 gubernatorial contest was, without a doubt, one of the most bitterly contested decisions to have been taken by the party in Rivers State since the return to civilian rule in 1999. Apart from the fact that this choice went against conventional presumptions of regional power-sharing between the riverine and upland communities in the state, a substantial proportion of local political champions regarded it as having been imposed on the elite traditional structure of the state’s polity by a new generation of activists.
