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.

Has Nyesom Wike’s Juju Expired?

 By Ugoji Egbujo

For years, Nyesom Wike seemed untouchable, wielding power with impunity and bending institutions to his will. He could come on national TV ‘barking’.  He could wear crazy colored clothes. He could hold more media chats than the president and all governors combined to gossip about his mentors, who had all become his enemies.

*Wike 

As a junior minister, he hounded his former governor—Rotimi Amaechi—who had played a key role in his rise. In 2015, when the Court of Appeal nullified elections across Rivers State, only the governorship survived to the Supreme Court. Shockingly, the apex court upheld Wike’s victory despite widespread allegations of grave irregularities.