Rédaction Africa Links 24 with Idowu Bankole
Published on 2026-01-31 03:51:23
•As Power, pressure and survival collide
By Luminous Jannamike
At 7:21 a.m. on Ahmadu Bello Way in Abuja, a battered Toyota Carina II taxi crawled toward the Federal Secretariat. The radio crackled through the traffic hum as the morning news broke: another governor had defected.
Inside the car, civil servants stared ahead in silence. No one looked surprised.
For Musa, a senior aide to one of Nigeria’s remaining opposition governors, the announcement carried weight far beyond politics.
Each defection quietly shifts the line between safety and vulnerability, leaving aides, commissioners and political appointees to face an uncomfortable reality, their futures now hinge on a single question: does their principal stay…
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