Showing posts with label Mark Twain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mark Twain. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Lagos: Bola Tinubu’s Parasitic Master Plan

By Modiu Olaguro
 “Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.”—Mark Twain.
In the last one month, the eyes of the nation was fixated on Lagos. Like a child’s play, the rumour of the governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, not getting a second term in office began and to the consternation of all, the rigmarole culminated in his ousting in a manner without precedents in the state. The All Progressives Congress (APC), being a party whose modus operandi relate in every way, shape or form with its siamese cousin, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), governors ordinarily take their second terms for granted, with the parties throwing the seat at them under the guise of first refusal however bleak a future they may have carved for their respective states.
*Jide Sanwo-Olu, Bola Tinubu and Gov Akinwunmi Ambode
With this in the know, coupled with the financial wherewithal of Lagos which could make even the least skillful occupant of the throne claim some glory from the people, Ambode, in a hubristic fashion wore the cloak of invincibility, deluding himself that should worst come to worse, the party would fear the backlash a move that could deny him a second term would generate.