Even if someone with character traits directly opposite to those of All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, were running the show, the civil war in the ruling party would still have been fought. Among other things, some critics have dubbed the former labour leader an inflexible dictator who lacks the temperament to run an organisation as complex as a ruling party. Oshiomhole’s predecessor, John Odigie-Oyegun, was the deliberate and diplomatic type. But he was perceived as weak and unable to get rebellious elements within APC to tow the party line. Under his watch, former Senate President Bukola Saraki…

He who must destroy others to succeed must know that destruction awaits him at the gate of his (own) success – Nino Brown. PDP chieftain, Mr Olabode George, was recently reported as saying he would contest the 2023 presidency so as to stop Mr Bola Tinubu from becoming president of this country. I have not read it anywhere that George denied making that statement; so it must mean he actually made it and he stands by it. I would not have been bothered if it was a political neophyte that made the vexatious and unfortunate statement, but George is a…

A major and consequential event took place last week in the quiet state of Osun which students of politics, power and government should take more than passing interest in. The State governor, Mr Gboyega Oyetola, last Monday assented the recommendations of a panel set up to review some of the policies of his predecessor and boss, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, who is now the Minister of Interior. Oyetola was his Chief of Staff. The state executive council not only approved the recommendations of the committee, made up of very respectable persons in the education sector, it reversed many of the policies,…

To Aginlinti, a rural outskirts on the road to Ogombo, where the Lekki Peninsula hugs the sea and the lagoon in precarious splendour. Our destination is the Aimasiko Bar where snooper often plays draughts before engaging the local cognoscenti in verbal fencing riddled with recondite Yoruba wisdom. The bar-owner is Atingisi Omowon, aka Gbabi-magbabe, an old acquaintance of yours sincerely who had dropped out of secondary school in Igbo Elede after beating up Reverend Peter Morris, the revered British principal and veteran of the Second World War. Despite this educational reversal, Atingisi remains as sharp-witted as ever and a celebrated…