Why Peter Obi Is Not Your Typical Politician

 By Dan Onwukwe

History sometimes provides a striking opportunity to understanding the interplay between leaders and situations that differentiate one from the pack. It also provides a valuable insight into the changing dynamics of power. It’s a fact that leadership carries a sacred responsibility not measured by political contests alone, but by courage, conviction, and respect for the dignity of the people – even under pressure. 

*Peter Obi

This is why some politicians deserve the recognition, good will and respect they get from the people, while others don’t. The latter category can best be described in pidgin English as “waka just pass”. These are leaders who strut the political space just to be noticed. They leave no enduring legacy. Their footprints varnish once they leave the political stage. 

How Natasha-Akpoti Uduaghan Is Redressing Nigerian Politics

 By Collins Adaka

Since the advent of the Fourth Republic in 1999, politics in Nigeria has gone haywire. Politicians no longer deliver on their promises having made so many alluring ones during campaigns.

*Akpoti-Uduaghan 

To them, the political romance has come to an inevitable end. What else can we do? Until the next election, they come again with even more captivating and better promises, and so, once again we fall victims.

They get richer and richer while we, as Nigerians get poorer and poorer. Such is the elusive bond we have with our politicians and such is our way of life concerning politics in Nigeria. Therefore, life in present day Nigeria is brutish and hellish.

Is Tinubu’s Presidency Careless, Clumsy And Corrupt?

 By Ugoji Egbujo

Tinubu’s presidency must be closely watched. At inception, it hurriedly sacked ambassadors like it had a clear foreign policy direction to salvage the country. Then for two and half years, it couldn’t nominate ambassadors, leaving the embassies rudderless.

*Tinubu and Shettima 

In the midst of that baffling shiftlessness, the president globetrotted unperturbed, with the all-knowing ease of a magician. Had he been asked during the campaigns, he would have bragged about his capacity to find without delay the best hands and brains to coordinate his visionary foreign policy. 

Is Nyesom Wike Wicked Or Just Wired For War?

 By Tony Iwuoma

This is about power, paranoia and the politics of staying relevant. In Nigerian politics, there are loud men, and then there is Nyesom Wike, mere mention reroutes conversations and rearranges loyalties.

*Wike 

Admirers call him fearless and effective. Critics describe him as vindictive, ungrateful, and power-drunk. Yet the heat around Wike is about personality, permanence, and peace, or the lack of it.

Politics is a survival theatre. So, the question is not whether Wike is wicked in the biblical sense, but whether he has become a prisoner of the very power rituals he perfected.