Nigeria, Jan. 19 -- For reasons best known to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, he has refused to rein in the cantankerous former governor of Rivers State and Minister of the FCT, Nyesom Wike. There is no way Wike's unbecoming disposition and public conduct can help the fortune of the president come next year's general election.

If he enjoyed some goodwill as Governor, he has squandered them in less than three years of leaving office, no thanks to a mix of garrulous and combustible personae that now defines his politics.

After his provocative and condemnable so-called thank-you visits to local governments in Rivers and, in the process, abandoning his duty post at the FCT, his lackeys in the state house of Assembly are also seeing to it that...