Kwara: post-Otoge wars
, the Sarakis have pitched the formidable memory of, the late but well loved Dr. Olusola Saraki, against the executive integrity of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRasaq.Crave the potency of political necromancy, which, in an earlier piece , defined as “the devastating politics of the dead, for the deadly benefits of the living”?
Not so in Kwara. But to be fair, you can’t blame the Sarakis for starting the fray, even if they are guilty as charged, for charging in from the necromancy front. That was “crossing the red line”, to use the exact words of Bukola Saraki, former Senate president and prime family scion, charging in hopping mad, like an enraged bull, after a red rag; hoisting the Saraki family standard, in high combat, to save family honour.
The closest, if far less messy perhaps, was the case of Samuel Goomsu Ikoku, who defeated his own father, Alvan, in the 1957 regional poll, for a seat in the Eastern Region House of Assembly. Still, as new master of Kwara politics, Saraki the Son, in no time morphed into a feudal Rehoboam, from the feudal Solomon his father was.
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