By: Abudu Olalekan It’s November in Ibadan. The party’s national convention. A chance to reset and heal. So many eyes on this one. They need unity. They crave consensus. Inside that smoky room, three names kept popping up. Sule Lamido. Former Jigawa State strongman. Ahmed Makarfi. The calm hand from Kaduna. And Tanimu Turaki, SAN….
By: Abudu Olalekan Drama in Abuja’s Federal High Court. The Peoples Democratic Party just pulled the rug from under its own top lawyer. Boom. Dropped. National Working Committee says Kamaldeen Ajibade, SAN—their National Legal Adviser—is out. Why? Alleged compromise. This, smack in the middle of a fierce legal battle to block the PDP’s big national…
By: Abudu Olalekan Bala Mohammed speaks in Abuja Abuja’s humid air thick with politics. Saturday rolls around, PDP’s Convention Communication Sub-committee just got sworn in. Bauchi Governor Bala Mohammed steps up to the mic. He’s the PDP Governors’ Forum chair, you know. And bam—he drops it. “I’m more than concerned” about governors and bigwigs jumping…
By: Akinde S. Oluwaseun The Lagos chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) just went scorched earth on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) this weekend. They said the current wave of defections? Not random. This exodus is the bitter, unavoidable result of deep internal rot. Years of deceit. Lack of core ideology. Serial betrayal among…
By: Abudu Olalekan The halls of Nigeria’s Senate are about to witness what might be an interesting showdown. Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan is coming back today. Yeah, you heard that right – after spending six whole months in the political wilderness. Listen to this. Her lawyer, Victor Giwa, told Reportersroom that she’s ready to walk right…
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…
