"In our age there is no such thing as
'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself
is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia"—
George Orwell
In the title of this piece is the harmful question asked by the Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu that set the polity and military authorities talking? It is one contribution to a debate last week at the nation's parliament - the Senate, that ignited a tense conversation in the polity. The topic was on the incessant human rights abuses especially on the Senators by their obsessional state governors.
Ekweremadu was
reacting particularly to a report from a Kogi state Senator Ahmed Ogembe to the
effect that his youthful controversial state Governor, Yahaya Bello, has been
sending political thugs after him and threatening to chase him out of his
constituency.
