Former Lagos Governor Ambode Rivers State Governor Sim Fubara In Nigerian politics, there are elections, there are constitutions, and then there are godfathers. The first two exist largely for television and newspaper headlines. The third is where the real power often lives.When Akinwunmi Ambode was politically executed by Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Lagos, many treated …
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Fubara and Wike When a sitting governor is politically expelled from his own reelection contest by a former governor who belongs to a different party, we are no longer describing a democracy. We are describing its funeral. On the night of Wednesday, 20 May 2026, Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State issued a statement that …
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The political economy of insecurity refers to the systemic interplay between political power structures, economic incentives, and institutions that sustain—or even profit from—persistent violence, crime, terrorism, and instability, rather than resolving them. It shifts the lens from purely military or technical explanations of “failure” to one that examines how elites, bureaucracies, and interest groups derive …
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