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…
By: Abudu Olalekan The political temperature in Nigeria is rising. You can feel it. It’s still a ways off from 2027, but the chess pieces, they’re already moving. Everyone’s trying to figure out where the votes are going to land. And in the South-East, a region that became a hotspot of support for a certain…
By: Abudu Olalekan Just a regular day. A regular flight. You get off the plane, maybe you’re a little tired, ready to get home. That’s probably how Julius Abure, the National Chairman for the Labour Party, was feeling. He just landed at Benin Airport, his flight from Abuja finally over. He was probably thinking about…
