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On May 17th 2024, this column published a piece with the tittle “An Emperor and His Nemesis”. It was a prognostic analysis of the impending political crisis in Rivers State because of the suffocating hold of ex-governor Wike on his surrogate, Siminalayi Fubara, the incumbent governor of the state.
Last Friday, pictures emerged from the UK showing President Bola Tinubu seated in what appeared to be a private office.
They get younger these days, don’t they, our army of ritual murderers? And we have a lot of them. Killers. Potential killers. They are all out there, waiting for the charlatan who would tell them that if they bring certain human body parts, they would slay, slash, and chop, even if it were their parents, just to be rich quickly. In their wake, they are leaving a trail of lifeless victims with missing body parts, and families scarred and traumatised for life.
Action Peoples Party, Sim Fubara’s proxy party, the special purpose vehicle through which he is establishing his own hegemony, is certainly full of action, having made a near clean-sweep of the available seats in the 23 Local Government Areas of Rivers State.
Since the return to civil rule in 1999, Rivers State, the acclaimed treasure base of Nigeria, has had five governors namely Peter Odili, Celestine Omehia, Chibuike Amaechi, Nyesom Wike, and now Simnalayi Fubara.
When unjust elements like discrimination, oppression, and unfairness are widely spread in a community it
For me, the matter is worth investigating given the role of the EFCC and the alleged N15m bribe. Their self-justification regarding why they dropped the money laundering charges against Bobrisky was more scandalising because of what it revealed about them and their investigation process.
64th Independence Day Speech by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
While one can hardly tell for a fact the first Nigerian to describe their electoral loss as “a rape on democracy,” it is not strange that the expression has become a go-to metaphor for Nigerian politicians who need to process the reality that hits them at the polling stations.
Early in the day on Sunday, I tuned in to the television set to catch up on results from Edo State’s off-season governorship election. To my amazement as a political reporter for three decades, I saw two PDP governors holding a press conference in Benin. Leading them to perform the functions of the INEC Returning Officer was Professor [sorry, Governor] Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri of Adamawa, said to be the chairman of PDP Campaign Council for Edo State