Nigeria: Onyiliagha's Political Thriller, His Own State Hits the Shelves

book review

NIGERIA is about to raise a brief eyebrow in the direction of the beleaguered book industry, where a major reading experience that has just hit the bookstands is certain to cause some fidgets in the corridors of power. Although the PR outfit of the Enugu-based publishers, Delta Publications (Nigeria) Limited, insists that their new drama title, His Own State, falls into the genre of 'fiction', the plot, for sure, will pull a remembrance chord somewhere, and throw open the floodgates of the past for a retrogressive view of similar events of high-drama that occurred a bare decade ago.

In the story a sitting Governor is abducted from his exalted office by uniformed police officers, dragged before his 'almighty' estranged Godfather, and at gunpoint forced to sign documents that will transform his ruthless Godfather into one of the world's richest men - in honour bound to the oath to which they both swore at a native doctor's bush shrine.

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