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By Sulaiman AbdulMalik It was a dizzyingly unpleasant moment for Gov. Abdullahi Ganduge of Kano state, immediately the news filtered into the air of the Paris parleys between Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, President Elect and his former boss now foe, Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso over Tinubu willingness to co-opt the former Kano state governor into…
By News Desk In the next few days, many state governors will bow out of office. While some of them are leaving with their heads high, same could not be said of quite a number of them. There are worries over the backlog of salary and pension some of them would be handing over to…
The attention of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, Kogi state chapter, has been drawn to a misleading publication credited to one Muktar Atima who, supposedly in error, was reported to have decamped from the SDP, as its chairman, to the APC. The report which showed him with His Excellency Alhaji Yahaya Bello, the Governor of…
By Femi Adesina Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, said he never experienced any of his predecessor Reuben Abati’s wild claims about Aso Villa. Abati, in a piece he titled The Spiritual Side of Aso Villa, had postulated that that Aso Villa is haunted, and should be turned to…
*By Tunde Olusunle Since he became governor in circumstances which remain fuzzy over seven years ago, Yahaya Bello, the governor of Kogi State, has left no one in doubt about his totalitarian grip on the north central state. He is the be-all-and-end-all of the potentially rich, but pathetically indigent and decrepit state, whose style reminds…
By Abdulmalik Sulaiman As Kogi governorship election is fast approaching, political activities and preparations are on top gear, signaling the electioneering campaign in the state. However, the November election is going to be an unusual election in the history of state as Gov. Yahaya Bello eight years administration come to an end. The major discurse…
By Abdulhamid Hayatoudeen Your Excellency,Alhaji Yahaya Adoza Bello;Executive Governor of Kogi State Your Excellency, BEFORE CALAMITY FALLS, PLEASE PAY YOUR APPOINTEES My esteemed regards sir. I am constrained to convey this message via this medium because of the urgency of the issue I will raise. I got to know about the situation of your political…
With the swearing-in of Abba Kabir Yusuf, Kano State governor-elect, only 21 days away, the recent revelation by Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, his political godfather, that the incoming government would review the dethronement of Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II and the ‘balkanisation’ of the Kano emirate has continued to heat the polity with different viewpoints for and…
•••Democracy And Freedom of Speech By Gabriel Atumeyi As the Kogi state body politics heats up once again as stakeholders and citizens anticipates going to the polls to determine who wields executive power for the next four years and determine the direction of the state’s forces of our relatively little corner of our beloved country,…
Your Excellency, I am writing this open letter to you because of my love for the All Progressive Congress (APC), a party which you and other progressives fought hard to build to entrench the progressive political ideologies to the body politics of our great country. The formation of the APC brought relief to the citizens…
