By Godwin Etakibuebu
At the last count, eight states of the federation have drawn
up parallel Executives to counter what some people called “authentic
Executives” of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, during the recently
concluded congresses. One of the most unbelievable states where this happened
is Lagos . That some
people, albeit members of the APC in Lagos State, could challenge the supremacy
of the de-facto Jagaban of the South-West politics would remain one of the
wonders of modern Nigerian political history.
Emergence of the parallel Executives in the eight states came
with re-introduction of politics of blood-spilling into the Nigerian polity and
this is the most unfortunate dimension of the APC debacle. These eight
states of Lagos ,
Oyo, Ondo, Zamfara, Enugu ,
Ebonyi, Kwara and Delta, where parallel Executives emerged saw violence. A few
people died in some of these states while in others, it was a day of bloodbath;
like the case in Ondo State , where
notable citizens were grossly humiliated as most of them were stripped naked.
This is without mentioning Imo State where
Rochas Okorocha, the APC governor, was completely demystified and dethroned by
the machinery of the APC itself.