{"id":209945,"date":"2026-02-09T18:21:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=209945"},"modified":"2026-02-09T18:21:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:21:38","slug":"still-water-and-broken-mirror-the-seyi-makinde-nyesom-wike-political-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=209945","title":{"rendered":"Still Water and Broken Mirror: The Seyi Makinde-Nyesom Wike Political Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Hamzat Waris Nigerian politics is complex, and friendships that surfaced as solid as that between Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State and Nyesom Wike, former Governor of Rivers State and current Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, seemed unshakeable. But as we are now witnessing in spectacular fashion&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/insideoyo.com\/still-water-and-broken-mirror-the-seyi-makinde-nyesom-wike-political-drama\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hamzat Waris Nigerian politics is complex, and friendships that surfaced as solid as that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209945-still-water-and-broken-mirror-the-seyi-makinde-nyesom-wike-political-drama-scaled.jpg",2560,2456,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209945-still-water-and-broken-mirror-the-seyi-makinde-nyesom-wike-political-drama-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209945-still-water-and-broken-mirror-the-seyi-makinde-nyesom-wike-political-drama-300x288.jpg",300,288,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209945-still-water-and-broken-mirror-the-seyi-makinde-nyesom-wike-political-drama-768x737.jpg",640,614,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209945-still-water-and-broken-mirror-the-seyi-makinde-nyesom-wike-political-drama-1024x983.jpg",640,614,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209945-still-water-and-broken-mirror-the-seyi-makinde-nyesom-wike-political-drama-1536x1474.jpg",1536,1474,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209945-still-water-and-broken-mirror-the-seyi-makinde-nyesom-wike-political-drama-2048x1965.jpg",2048,1965,true],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209945-still-water-and-broken-mirror-the-seyi-makinde-nyesom-wike-political-drama-1024x983.jpg",1024,983,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209945-still-water-and-broken-mirror-the-seyi-makinde-nyesom-wike-political-drama-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209945-still-water-and-broken-mirror-the-seyi-makinde-nyesom-wike-political-drama-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/209947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}