After a few months of what may have been a period of isolation, reflection & some serious soul-searching, Hon. Desmond Elliot appears to have arrived at a rather painful political realisation: that whatever electoral value he possesses may be considerably diminished when severed from the political structure, machinery & godfather who helped propel him to […]
By Abiola Olatunde Aloba Sometimes, the greatest political mistake is not losing an election. It is refusing victory when victory comes knocking at your door. We all thought that dancing was a joke, not knowing that the actual juju is in that dancing. The more the more, assured the victory. Now we know much better. […]
The political fog has finally lifted. After months of subterranean maneuvering, delicate calculations, strategic alignments, silent compromises, bruised ambitions, & intense power negotiations within the ruling APC, Governor Dapo Abiodun has now effectively secured the most critical half of his immediate political future, the party ticket to contest for the Ogun East Senatorial seat. And […]
Politics is perhaps the only battlefield where men are applauded loudly while walking unknowingly toward their own destruction. It is a theatre of smiles hiding daggers, of handshakes masking calculations, of loyalty rented temporarily until ambition suddenly defaults on payment. And nowhere is this brutal reality currently playing out more dramatically than in the unfolding […]
… it’s most definitely going to be a woman. And 9 of them stand out effortlessly. So who? If it is indeed his Excellency, Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat, & the signs are no longer whispering but beginning to speak, then the next question rises with quiet urgency: who stands beside him when the curtain finally […]
It is no longer the language of whispers. No longer the careful dance of ifs & maybes anymore. In the deeply coded theatre of Lagos politics, where signals are often subtle & outcomes rarely accidental, a defining clarity has now emerged: Dr. Obafemi Kadri Hamzat, is no longer a speculation, he is the establishment’s (GAC) […]
