The Nation Newspaper

Category: Hardball

  • Museveni’s chokehold

    Museveni’s chokehold

    No fewer than 2,000 opposition actors were officially confirmed detained following the 15th January election in Uganda that President Yoweri Museveni won by a landslide. Thirty other opposition elements were confirmed killed by government’s own narrative on the disputed poll.

    Museveni won his seventh term in a poll held amid internet shutdown and characteristic claims of irregularities by opposition players. At 81 years of age, he has ruled his country for 40 years, making him the third-longest-serving non-royal national leader in the world. Since taking power in 1986 at the head of a military insurgency, he has changed the Ugandan constitution twice to remove age and term limits and pull state institutions under presidential control.

    Official results showed Museveni winning with 72 percent of the vote, but the poll was faulted by election observers and rights groups owing to heavy repression of the opposition and the internet blackout. In its wake, the whereabouts of opposition leader Bobi Wine – real name Robert Kyagulanyi, and who won 25 percent of the vote – were uncertain after he said he had escaped a police raid on his home and was in hiding. Police denied the raid and said the opposition leader was still at home, but they blocked journalists from accessing the residence. Wine resurfaced in public when, on 26th January, he visited his mother’s gravesite in Gomba District.

    Read Also: How Nigeria’s festive season is fuelling a silent health crisis

    Uganda is categorised “not free” by rights monitor, Freedom House, which noted that while the country holds regular elections, they are not considered credible. African election observers, including a team from the African Union, said following the January poll that “reports of intimidation, arrest and abductions…instilled fear and eroded public trust in the electoral process.” Analysts described the election as a formality, given Museveni’s total control of state and security institutions, though many Ugandans praise him for bringing relative peace and prosperity to the country.

    In his victory speech after the poll, Museveni described members of Wine’s party, the National Unity Platform (NUP), as terrorists. He accused them of having planned to attack polling stations in areas where they were losing. “Some of the opposition are wrong and also terrorists,” he said, adding: “They are working with some foreigners and some homosexual groups. All the traitors – this is free advice from me – stop everything, because we know what you are doing and you will not do it.”

    Uganda’s military chief and Museveni’s son, Lieutenant-General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, confirmed that authorities had detained 2,000 opposition supporters, killed 30 and were hunting for more following the election. In social media post, Kainerugaba described NUP supporters as hooligans and terrorists, saying: “So far, we have killed 30 NUP terrorists” without explaining the circumstances of the deaths. “Most NUP terrorist leaders are in hiding. We shall get them all,” he said in another post on X.

    You may need to visit Museveni’s Uganda to understand how being in opposition equates to terrorism.

  • Invisible impact

    Invisible impact

    It is puzzling that the substantial increase in state government revenues from the Federation Account has not significantly improved citizens’ welfare. This disparity has attracted widespread public criticism, especially given the scale of recent disbursements.

    States received an estimated N9tn in Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) inflows in 2025, an improvement of over N2tn in a single year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

    Despite these figures, the impact remains invisible to many. “Very few states are doing well in terms of how they deploy what they receive,” noted the Assistant Secretary-General of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Onyeka Christopher. He was quoted as saying, “The idea behind federal allocations is to bring the government closer to the grassroots, but unfortunately, in many states, this has not translated into the desired results for well-known reasons.”

    Read Also: Tinubu, Obasanjo, Mimiko, Fasoranti, others bag Ondo golden jubilee awards

    Similarly, the Chairman of the Centre for Accountability and Open Leadership (CAOL), Debo Adeniran, observed that the “increase in allocations to states has just increased the financial opportunity for the state governors, not percolating to the level of the people that are supposed to be the final recipients of government charities.”

    More concretely, the Executive Director of Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, said: “There’s no physical, verifiable, tangible evidence to show that the monies the governments are receiving are touching lives in terms of healthcare, electricity, physical infrastructure, or even agriculture.”

    The irony of having record-high revenues alongside declining welfare creates governance-driven underdevelopment. When the states become wealthier while the people become poorer, the implications are disturbing and threatening. 

    It suggests that the government is no longer an engine for development.  When infrastructure and agriculture are neglected, for instance, unemployed youth in rural areas become easy targets for recruitment by insurgent groups or criminal gangs.

    This irony also fuels the perception that democracy is only “for the politicians” and not “for the people.” When people see N9tn entering government coffers but see no “verifiable evidence” in their hospitals, as Rafsanjani mentioned, they seek a future elsewhere.

    More troubling is that long-term governance-driven underdevelopment is often the precursor to civil unrest or demands for drastic systemic changes.

    Ultimately, if these funds continue to bypass the grassroots, the nation is not merely failing to develop; it is actively financing the conditions for its own instability.

    State governors must urgently re-evaluate their deployment of these revenue windfalls, ensuring they serve the collective interest of the people and the long-term stability of the country.

  • Ebo Noah and deluge deferred

    Ebo Noah and deluge deferred

    Doomsday prophets seem never to tire, and they do not get dissuaded by serial failure of past predictions. The shocking thing is that they also seem to never lack gullible people who believe in their crackbrained predictions, no matter how improbable such prediction might seem to commonsense.

    The latest instance is a self-proclaimed Ghanaian prophet, labelling himself ‘Ebo Noah’ who predicted that the world would end through flooding on 25th December, 2025, and that only those who get on arks that God asked him to build would be saved. Only that he came up on the eve of the predicted doomsday to say the disaster had been postponed following what he described as divine intervention. He informed his followers the catastrophic flood would not occur on the day originally predicted after thousands from Ghana and elsewhere had traveled to the ark sites, preparing to board the vessels ahead of Christmas Day. Videos circulated online showed crowds gathering near the wooden structures in anticipation of the predicted event.

    Recent rainfall in Ghana intensified fears, with people taking the prophecy seriously enough to make preparations. When skeptics cited the biblical covenant in Genesis where God promised never again to destroy the earth with floods, Ebo Noah rejoined that even God can change His mind – referencing the account of King Hezekiah.

    The 30-year-old first gained international attention in August when he began posting videos on social media showing himself constructing wooden arks and warning that God revealed to him there will be a three-year period of rain beginning on Christmas Day. He claimed flooding would devastate the earth like in the biblical days of Noah, and only those who get on any of his arks would be saved. Reports said Ebo Noah had built about ten wooden arks as at Christmas Day, though the exact number varied in different accounts. The vessels, built with the help of local fishermen, were significantly smaller than the biblical Ark of Noah and critics questioned whether they were genuine arks or adapted fishing boats.

    Read Also: Accelerate support for Nigeria’s reforms, Tinubu urges World Bank, vows ‘no looking back’

    Ghanaian authorities arrested Ebo Noah earlier in December over concerns that his statements were causing public panic, particularly among residents living abroad. He was detained for 72 hours before being released, because officials determined that making religious prophecies does not constitute a criminal offence under Ghanaian law. Meanwhile, there were indications Ebo Noah profited from his enterprise. Days before Christmas, he appeared publicly in a newly acquired Mercedes-Benz while wearing his trademark burlap costume. He shared a message stating he had fasted for three weeks and prayed for Ghana and the world.

    In the latest video message, Ebo Noah said he received a fresh vision showing large numbers of people gathering to enter his arks, which are not enough to accommodate everyone. Thus, he had consulted with other religious leaders for intercessory prayers and God had granted additional time to construct more vessels.

    Some swindlers do have ‘em!

  • Osimhen: Oliseh talks the talk

    Osimhen: Oliseh talks the talk

    Post-Africa Nations Cup (AFCON), Morocco 2025, Sunday Oliseh, former Super Eagles captain and ex-national team coach, has outed with why Nigeria lost in the semi-final, against the hosts, Morocco: Victor Osimhen, the Eagles talisman and goal machine, bullied Ademola Lukman, lovable gentleman and attack dynamo.

    By that, Oracle Oliseh just roared, Osimhen killed the team spirit during the Round of 16 Mozambique match, which the Eagles won 4:0. Though Nigeria had already scored a quad of goals, Osimhen berated his colleagues for not passing to him, since he had a good chance of adding to the goal tally.

    Some folks claim Osimhen was desperate for a hat trick — and thus selfish — since he already got a brace. But that’s all bull, given the beautiful goal he crafted for Akor Adams against Algeria, when he could easily have gone for glory himself. No, Osimhen is no selfish player. Yes: he wants to score. But beyond that, he always plays for the team. That’s clear to every rational and unbiased mind.

    But to the Oliseh charge that Osimhen “killed” the team spirit against Morocco, even after decisioning Algeria, who became a mere 90-minute wimp, mesmerized by Nigeria’s dazzling, attacking football, immediately after Mozambique? Let’s just say Oliseh suffers from the win-all-the-time syndrome of the Nigerian ball fans.

    But again, Osimhen will answer for his mercurial on-field temper, just to get the job done. In the same mien, Lukman will ever gross more admirers, when the subject is eternal cool and politeness, even under match tension and provocation. The Eagles manager, the often unsung Eric Chelle, did a good job managing both at AFCON.

    Still, Oliseh pontificating on discipline while flogging Osimhen? Wonders shall never end! Of Oliseh’s generation, who was more truculent than Oliseh? Talk is cheap!

    Read Also: New book proffers solutions to surmounting Nigeria’s problems

    Oliseh’s notorious truculence, with teammates and officials alike, was among reasons the team was disbanded; and he couldn’t go to Korea/Japan 2002 World Cup. The Eagles had nicked yet another bronze at the Mali AFCON in 2002.

    Oliseh might be the most articulate of his generation. But he’s in no place to posture over humility or discipline. As a player, he was the diametric opposite of both!

    Why, even, as a coach, his hauteur led to losing Vincent Enyeama, one of Nigeria’s safest pair of hands, ever! What’s more? After the late Stephen Keshi, Oliseh was brought in to build the team. But he rather scattered it because of draconian codes he wouldn’t, as a player, take from any coach. Enyeama, the team’s captain then, called his bluff and walked out.

    Horrors of horrors! He even fled from the wreckage he caused by a hasty resignation! What crass cowardice!

    But Oliseh’s cheap talk over Osimhen is a media crisis. He knows Nigerians often lack institutional memory; and could blab anything and get away with it. An Eagles captain booted out of the World Cup, because of indiscipline, has nothing to teach anyone on discipline.

  • Lingering poser on Maga kidnap

    Lingering poser on Maga kidnap

    In the early hours of Monday, November 17th, 2025, terrorists struck at Government Girls’ Comprehensive Secondary School, Maga in Kebbi State, and herded off 25 pupils into captivity. The abductees have since been rescued. But it isn’t yet a closed matter, because there was a question about the handling of intelligence that remains.

    On the heels of the abductions, Kebbi State Governor Nasir Idris demanded a probe into sudden withdrawal of security operatives from the school shortly before armed men stormed in to kidnap students. Military personnel had been posted at the school on the strength of Intel obtained ahead of the incident. Speaking in Birnin-Kebbi, the governor described the abductions as particularly unfortunate because the state government received prior intelligence and took proactive remedial steps. “When we received intelligence on a possible attack, we summoned a security meeting. The security agencies assured us that all was well and that personnel would be mobilised to the school,” he said, adding: “Military men were deployed, but they later withdrew by 3:00a.m. and by 3:45a.m. the incident happened.”

    Governor Idris, who spoke at separate audiences with Defence Minister of State Bello Matawalle and Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) President Joe Ajaero, said the state wanted thorough investigation into circumstances surrounding the security operatives’ withdrawal. “Who authorised the military to withdraw? How did security personnel pull out at such a critical hour? We have asked the military to investigate and identify who gave the order,” he stated.

    Read Also: Five strongest currencies in Africa as of January 2026

    More than two months after, the spurious security manoeuvre remains unexplained. A faith-based civil society group, Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), lately rehashed the poser, wondering why relevant authorities were yet to make findings from probes into the issue public. MURIC Executive Director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, in a statement, argued that the governor did his part with the Intel received, just as those who deployed soldiers to the spot. “But somebody somewhere issued a counter-order for withdrawal of soldiers guarding the school.”

    He further stated: “Who could it have been? A fifth columnist within the army? A signals expert among the leadership of the terrorists who succeeded in decoding the military’s signals and subsequently sent a deceitful message to those on guard? By the way, what kind of change of guards ever occur at 3a.m.? If soldiers are to withdraw from guard duty, is it not strange that the departing guards did not wait to see those who would take over from them before leaving? Even ordinary neighbourhood guards know this simple security protocol.”

    Akintola recalled that both Defence Headquarters (DHQ) authorities and the Senate through its committee on security instituted probes into the occurrence. “Nigerians want to know why both DHQ and the Nigerian Senate are yet to make their findings into the mysterious withdrawal public. Nigerians demand transparency in this matter. Heads must roll on this reckless abandonment,” he said inter alia.

    Hardball can’t agree more.

  • Healthcare hell

    Healthcare hell

    From all indications, the authorities have a lot to do to improve healthcare in the country. “Nigeria currently has about 40,000 doctors against an estimated need of 300,000,” the Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, said at a recent event. He added that “Lagos alone requires about 33,000 doctors but has only about 7,000.” These figures reveal striking gaps.

    Also, the President of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Prof. Bala Audu, was recently quoted as saying, “Many of our doctors are not even going abroad to look for jobs. Foreign governments now come into Nigeria to pick doctors and take them away.”

     He lamented that the country is losing specialists at an alarming rate, particularly obstetricians, gynaecologists, and paediatricians who are directly hired by international recruiters offering them superior working conditions, remuneration, and infrastructure.

    Indeed, he added that in some specialties, the number of Nigerian doctors practising abroad may already exceed those still working within the country

    In 2024, the Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammad Pate, in a television interview, revealed that no fewer than 16,000 doctors had left the country in the past five years.

    Figures from the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom indicate that the number of Nigerian-trained doctors practising in the UK has climbed to 11,001.

    Read Also: Mass poverty endangering survival of Nigeria’s Democracy — OAU Professor

    The pace of medical emigration is such that it would take at least 20 years to train the thousands of health workers required to close the gap, experts estimate.

    Notably, a former President of the NMA, Prof. Mike Ogirima, was reported saying Nigeria produces an average of only 3,000 doctors annually, making it difficult to bridge the estimated deficit of nearly 300,000 doctors. According to him, “If we are producing just 3,000 doctors yearly, it will take at least 10 years to catch up—and that is assuming no doctor leaves the system.”

    He warned: “We cannot afford to wait that long.”  He noted that the country currently has about one doctor to 8,000 patients—far below the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommendation of one doctor to 600 patients.

    The identified causes of the country’s worsening medical exodus include poor funding, dilapidated infrastructure, harsh working conditions, insecurity, and weak policy implementation.

    So, the problems are clear; this should make solving them easier. It is, therefore, difficult to understand why they not only persist but have also been intensified. Predictably, without decisive action, the crisis will worsen.

  • Narrow nets

    Narrow nets

    According to a new World Bank report, poor Nigerians who need government-funded safety-net schemes the most are not benefiting from them, despite billions of naira spent on poverty alleviation. The bank’s November 2025 report, titled “The State of Social Safety Nets in Nigeria,” says poor households receive only 44 percent of the total benefits from such programmes.

    The report, which examines the country’s spending on social safety nets and evaluates their coverage and efficiency, attributes the failure to reach the neediest to poor targeting, weak funding, and fragmented implementation. 

    “Many programmes implemented by the federal, state, and local levels, as well as safety net programmes implemented by religious bodies, fail to reach the neediest,” the bank observed. It described the impacts of extant safety nets on the overall poverty headcount rate in the country as “negligible.”

    Read Also: Fed govt’s ₦501bn power sector bond records full subscription

    It also said the poverty impacts of safety net programmes in the country “are much lower” than in most other low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), adding that “The range of poverty impacts in Nigeria is even lower than the average among not just the LMICs, but also low-income countries with lower incomes and a higher extent of poverty.”

    In 2022, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) had released a report that said 133 million Nigerians were multidimensionally poor. This figure represented 63 percent of the country’s population of more than 200 million.  Three out of five Nigerians lived in poverty, according to the NBS report.

    The data from the Monetary Poverty Measurement (MPM) and Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) had called into question the anti-poverty efforts of the Federal Government and the seriousness of state and local governments in the fight against poverty.

    Ironically, the findings had suggested that poverty in the country was governance-driven, with high deprivations nationally in healthcare, food security, and housing, among others.

    Poverty remains a big issue in the country, and anti-poverty solutions must be governance-driven.

    The United Nations (UN) defines extreme poverty as “a condition characterised by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information. It depends not only on income but also on access to services.”

    This definition captures not only monetary poverty but also multidimensional poverty, showing how “deprivations in basic amenities” are used to assess poverty.

    The World Bank’s critical findings demand action from the Nigerian authorities. They must ensure that the social safety nets are spread wide enough to cushion the neediest citizens.

    •This article was first published on

    November 14, 2025

  • When hospitals kill

    When hospitals kill

    Hospitals ordinarily are places people go to get healed when ill, or to sustain good health. Meaning they are conventionally life-savers, not death purveyors. When, however, patients who otherwise might have lived get hastened unto their death through hospital treatment, it is an alarming role reversal that should be called out.

    A 30-year-old Lagos father cried out for justice lately after accusing a primary healthcare centre in the state of causing the deaths of his nine-month-old twin boys whom he took there for routine immunisation. The father, Samuel Alozie, known as Promise Samuel on TikTok, alleged that the twin boys, Testimony and Timothy, died same day after being administered immunisation at Ajangbadi primary health centre in Ojo council area.

    In a social media post, Alozie said he took the children for immunisation on December 24, 2005, and they died on Christmas Day. According to him, the immunisation made the boys very weak and high temperatured, for which reason he gave them paracetamol as advised by the nurse. “My wife and I, after we left the health centre, went home and gave the two of them paracetamol, which didn’t solve anything. We even bathed them. My wife bathed them in cold water,” he recalled.

    Read Also: Shell plans fresh $20bn investment in Nigeria, NNPCL — Ojulari 

    The distraught father also alleged that the nurse on duty had given the children some oral medication without his consent. He dismissed explanation by the health facility that food bacteria was responsible for the kids’ death, saying: “The nurse said it was food bacteria that killed my children… Food that I’ve been giving them from one month to nine months, and it didn’t kill them?” Alozie accused the health centre of administering expired or fake vaccines or an overdose on the twins, and called out government as liable. He noted that while an autopsy had been conducted, he has reservations about the possible outcome: “The reason I’m scared is that I don’t know if government will give me justice because this is government-to-government. The primary health centre is government’s, and the people running the case are government people.” He sought help from human rights lawyers to get justice.

    Alozie’s story broke against the backdrop of the death of one of the twin boys of ace writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, in a private Lagos hospital. Adichie accused the hospital of negligence and vowed to seek justice. The Lagos State government weighed in and promised “thorough, independent and transparent” probe of circumstances surrounding the death, saying any individual or institution found culpable of negligence, professional misconduct or regulatory violations would face the full wrath of the law. Meanwhile, the Lagos State Ministry of Health and the Primary Health Care Board had yet to issue any official statement about the Alozie twins’ death or findings of the autopsy conducted on them.

    Could this be because Alozie isn’t famous? Sauce for goose should be sauce for gander.

  • Preventable tragedy

    Preventable tragedy

    In the medical world, the mantra is ‘We care, God heals.’  However, relying on fatalism as a defence in a case of condemnable negligence amounts to denying responsibility.

    The medical team that performed surgery on Aishatu Umar, a mother of five, has been accused of leaving a pair of scissors in her after the operation, which ultimately led to her death on January 13.

    Her husband, Abubakar Binji, in an interview, said she had undergone surgery at a public hospital, the Abubakar Imam Urology Hospital in Kano, on September 16, 2025, “to remove a cyst from her left kidney.”

    According to Binji, following her death, he had called the doctor who led the surgery to inform him. His words: “He said it was unfortunate and promised to come, but no one showed up until the issue went viral on social media. Then, the team arrived in several vehicles to console us, saying it happened as God willed.”

    He said after his late wife was discharged post-surgery, she had “frequently complained of abdominal pain, saying she felt as though something was still inside her.”

    “We were always told that some abdominal pain is normal after surgery, so we assumed that might be the case and tried to manage it as she endured excruciating pain over time,” he explained.

    Read Also: Court sacks Abure, orders INEC to recognise Nenadi-led leadership of Labour Party

    But on January 9, he narrated, “She called me, screaming and crying, saying she was in severe stomach pain and needed urgent attention. I was too far from home, so our children rushed her to the hospital.”

    The hospital’s intervention didn’t stop her pain, he said. “She couldn’t sleep… The doctors advised that a scan be carried out, and the result was brought back for review,” he added.

    It was at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital that the cause of her pain was finally detected through x-ray: a pair of scissors was inside her abdomen. It was concluded that the foreign object had been left in her body by the surgical team that performed her initial procedure.

    Her husband said: “We immediately returned to the hospital, where surgeons were called to prepare for emergency surgery.

    “She was prepared and taken to the theatre, but tragically, she died during the preliminary stages of the operation.”

    Why did the hospital staff allegedly ignore the patient’s complaints of severe pain for four months, reportedly only prescribing painkillers instead of performing diagnostic scans?

    The Kano State Hospitals Management Board has since suspended the medical personnel involved and launched a formal investigation, acknowledging that the incident was a result of professional negligence rather than “fate.” To restore public confidence in Kano’s healthcare system, the state must ensure severe sanctions are meted out to those whose negligence caused this preventable

  • Ikwerre bear vs Ijaw fox

    Ikwerre bear vs Ijaw fox

    In Rivers, it’s the Ikwerre bear versus the Ijaw fox!  Who prevails?

    The Ikwerre bear, former Governor and riled godfather, Nyesom Wike, bawls: “Agreement is agreement!”. 

    That seems to reinforce the notion that his embattled godson, Siminalayi Fubara, and the Ijaw fox, isn’t trusted enough to land a second term. 

    Unconfirmed sources claim the post-emergency entente that returned Fubara to his job decreed that he wouldn’t “smell” a second term.

    But Fubara’s body language beams contrary vibes.  He made much by wincing under the weight of the high cost of “peace”.  But as he waxed lyrical about his “second coming” in his troubled first term, he appears to posture that, well, he has borne enough scars and boast enough sacrifices for the Wike-controlled Rivers political establishment, to let bygones be bygones.

    Proof?  Fubara has screamed support for President Bola Tinubu’s second term, with own piercing screech, outside the Wike booming orchestra.  What’s more?  He has also dumped the troubled PDP, which hauled him to power (under Wike’s benevolence, of course), triumphantly opting for APC, the federal ruling party.

    “I’m 001 in Rivers APC!” the foxy Fubara enthused, hoping his bearish mentor-turned-tormentor would take political notice.  Since then, Fubara had gone full blast, blaring the gospel of Tinubu for second term, and how he and the Rivers flock were ready to make it happen; and roaring for the victory party after.

    But the irate bear would hear of no such nonsense!  “Agreement is agreement” he roared, mocking Fubara and his more-Catholic-than-the-Pope support for Tinubu, as being a tad too opportunistic and overdone!

    It’s classic clash of two motives.  Over their dead body would the Wike phalanx ever trust Fubara with high office again.  But Fubara fancies his foxiness to charm everyone to claim that diadem!

    Read Also: Adewole hails Akande at 87, describes ex-Osun governor as pillar of Nigeria’s democratic history

    That’s the crux of the matter.  But as the fox tries to over-reach himself, so has the bear and his allies in the Rivers legislature.  The legislature has still not learnt basic gumption from the emergency crisis.  Why not strike the shepherd and plunge the sheep into disarray, instead of the impeachment double-whammy they tried before? 

    If you strike Fubara but leave his deputy, you would have divided the Fubara power base — no matter how thin — since Prof. Ngozi Odu would be the new governor. That’s far less risky than the double-whammy, full of double-trouble, they are pushing now, but which failed in the past, but led to emergency rule.

    Still, for all you know, this latest threat could well be deliberate: a vicious dash to make Fubara forget any second term dream, showing him he’d be lucky to complete his sole term in one piece.  Rivers politics seldom brooks half-measures!

    Likely solution?  Fubara should reconcile himself to “agreement is agreement” — one term!  He should gulp the hemlock and fade away — if he really craves Rivers “peace”.

    But Wike too should learn to pull back from his zero-sum-game battling philosophy!

    Is either capable of mid-point political common sense?  That’s the thing!

    Rivers!  We’ll see how it all pans out!  Rivers!