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.
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.
