Is it a storm? Is it a
gale? Is it a tsunami? It is defection, the latest virus in the sclerotic arteries of our national
politics. This poison is the only lucrative political business in town today.
People are defecting from APC to PDP and from PDP to APC. It beats common sense
but then you would do well to remember that common sense is not exactly a
marketable product in the realm of politics, here and indeed, else where.
Some of us are scratching our heads, wondering
about this latest, and not to put a fine spin on it, ugly development in our
national politics. The politicians do not believe that they owe us an
explanation for what they are doing. But we cannot pretend not to know what is
pushing them out of one party into another. It is meet and proper that in
search of the why question, we raise questions that seem to beg reason. One of
which is, in whose interest?
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| *Nigeria's Ex-Heads Of State |
