By: Abudu Olalekan Ibadan woke up loud. Drums. Chants. Flags everywhere. The Oyo APC Youth League poured into the streets on Saturday for what they called a Loyalty Walk, and it did feel like one—loyalty in motion. By mid-morning, major roads looked like a moving sea of green and white. Not a small crowd. Youths…
By: Abudu Olalekan It’s back. The Jonathan question. Will he run or won’t he. In quiet rooms and noisy halls, one name keeps circling the 2027 conversation. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. The ground is, loudly. Multiple members of the African Democratic Congress, including folks on its National Working Committee, told Reportersroom they’ve been in touch with…
By: Abudu Olalekan The political chessboard for 2027 is already being set. And the first moves are, well, something else. Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar made a splash. He joined the African Democratic Congress, the ADC, and then, in an interview with BBC Hausa, he said something that got everyone talking. He said he’d step…
By: Abudu Olalekan There is a small scene worth paying attention to: delegates filing out of an Oyo State hall, handshake here, a nod there, no shouting, no chairs thrown. It happened recently. Governor Seyi Makinde noticed it, and he wrote about it on Thursday evening in a short newsletter. Not a speech, more like…
By: Akinde S. Oluwaseun Nigeria turns 65 tomorrow. Yeah — sixty-five. Not the shiny kind of birthday you throw confetti for. More like the one where you sit down, sigh, and ask yourself… how did we get here? Atiku Abubakar — remember him? Ex-VP, still got opinions — spoke up. Not with fancy speeches. Just…
By: Abudu Olalekan You know how politics in Nigeria can twist and turn like a bad Nollywood plot? Well, picture this: it’s a sunny weekend in Minna, Niger State. The PDP’s state congress is buzzing at the party’s secretariat. Journalists swarm around, notebooks out, mics ready. And there, in the midst of it all, stands…
