What the Iyabo Obasanjo-Yayi friction reveals about Ogun’s political realignment, By Adeola Akinremi
Add us on Google Join the Premium Times WhatsApp Community For Quick Access To News and Happenings Around You. Open in WhatsApp In some obvious ways, the whole episode is sad: the situation should never have descended into insults. But in other ways, the moment revealed something fundamental: transactional politics.
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- ▪But in other ways, the moment revealed something fundamental: transactional politics.
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Add us on Google Join the Premium Times WhatsApp Community For Quick Access To News and Happenings Around You. Open in WhatsApp In some obvious ways, the whole episode is sad: the situation should never have descended into insults. But in other ways, the moment revealed something fundamental: transactional politics. In an era of sound bites, viral outrage, and performative politics, what happened between Senator Iyabo Obasanjo and Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola (famously known as Yayi) should not surprise us. In political optics, public altercations are rarely just personal; they are symptomatic of broader structural shifts. The political brawl may appear on the surface as another episode of viral outrage.
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