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Power politics in the animal kingdom could be as intense, deceptive and selfish as it is in the human kingdom. An ancient African allegory, whose patent cannot be credited to a particular tradition, illustrates this. It is the fable of an old forest warhorse, the lion. After years of feasting on animals, his mane soaked in their innocent blood, Old Lion became too senescent to haunt for games.
Like the old wily Lion, virtually all the political characters on the two aisles of the divide – opposition and in government – suffer similar fates in the estimation of Nigerians today. In relationship calculus, Yoruba advise a younger one burying the elder in the presence of the younger sibling to be mindful of the depth of the grave they dig because same fate awaits them.
Then, there is the gale of insecurity in the country. Unbeknown to Nigerians, the Tandi of the Buhari government, which they thought was dance-shy, cannot even stand the Tandi Tandi of the Tinubu government, which does not have a waist to wag to any danceable tune. Northeast terrorists dance to celebratory songs as they hijack Nigerian local governments as their spoils of war. Same terrorists drink palm wine with dead Nigerians’ skulls as gourds.
Yet another misstep was obvious in Benue, either from Hyacinth Alia’s attempt to play sycophantic politics or the Tinubu government’s indiscretion of not rejecting Alia’s grovel. How do you line school children, bereaved children of the massacred, on the streets to receive someone coming to commiserate with you?So many other missteps of the last two years line the dais. They are missteps which an opposition group or party could weaponise to win Nigerians’ hearts.
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