By Ehichioya Ezomon Former Lagos State Governor and Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) – a protégé and staunch ally of President Bola Tinubu – kicked-off the debate about whether Tinubu should intervene in the political crises in Rivers and Ondo states. Speaking at the Nigerian …
Read More »Fubara vs Wike: Rivers Becomes Edo, PDP Clever by half over Members’ Defection
By Ehichioya Ezomon The crisis in the Rivers State polity is escalating and cascading in line with the advice of supporters of Governor Siminalayi Fubara – and literally as demanded by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) – to adopt the Governor Godwin Obaseki playbook of taking no prisoners, to deal …
Read More »Autocratic Leadership in Niger-Delta Communities
By Young Erhiurhoro The above topic is very timely and important for leaders of communities in the entire Niger-Delta region. Autocratic leadership is never receptive or acceptable to the subjects or indigenes of the community. It’s never acceptable to any right-thinking person in the community. This is the major reason …
Read More »NASS Welcome Moves to Amend Electoral Act 2022
By Ehichioya Ezomon Many Nigerians agreed – and had hoped – that the amended Electoral Act 2022 would be a game changer in terms of its dynamism and innovation to cure obvious lapses in the electoral system, and ensure credibility and transparency of elections. But as shown in the process, …
Read More »Edo 2024: Shaibu Dares Obaseki on Governorship Aspiration
By Ehichioya Ezomon Edo State Deputy Governor Philip Shaibu subtly took Governor Godwin Obaseki to the cleaners on November 19 in Abuja, prompting polity watchers to predict a “battle royale” ahead of the September 21, 2024, governorship poll to replace Obaseki, who completes his eight-year tenure next November. This comes two …
Read More »Bayelsa 2023: Sylva’s Undoing, partly Self-Inflicted
By Ehichioya Ezomon Because of the deck stacked against him – or more aptly, due to the deck he stacked against himself – it’s illusory to project the November 11, 2023, governorship in Bayelsa State as a walkover for former Governor Timipre Sylva. From the get go, Mr Sylva faced …
Read More »Atiku, Obi’s Petitions different from Conventional Legal Matters
By Ehichioya Ezomon This is a response to a comment on my October 30, 2023, piece on, “How Supreme Court trashed Atiku’s ‘fresh evidence’ from Chicago.” Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) got the new evidence from President Bola Tinubu’s academic records and deposition to authenticate …
Read More »Much Ado About Timipre Sylva’s Devt of Power Sector in Bayelsa ~ Ebitei Tonyon
(Edited by Amos Odhe, Yenagoa) It is true that the electricity sector in Bayelsa state has been plagued with challenges, despite years of reforms, investments of time and resources to the sector, and even the state-owned Gas turbine. All of these were supposedly aimed at addressing the recurrent power failure …
Read More »Bayelsa 2023: APC Escapes ‘Second Affliction’
By Ehichioya Ezomon Bayelsa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has 10 days to campaign to regain lost grounds in attempts to reclaim the governorship it won in 2020, but lost via a Supreme Court ruling that terminated Governor-elect David Lyon, 24 hours to his inauguration on February 14, …
Read More »How Supreme Court trashed Atiku’s ‘Fresh Evidence’ from Chicago
By Ehichioya Ezomon It’s obvious on October 23, 2023, that the Supreme Court judgment on appeals from the Presidential Election Petitions Court (PEPC) would be a formality. The barely 120 seconds it took the court to dismiss the 50-ground appeal by former Anambra State Governor Peter Obi and the Labour Party (LP) starkly …
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