OPINION BY MONDAY PHILIPS EKPE: The 10th national assembly | TheCable
and the deputy, which held last Tuesday in Abuja, have all gone the way of those anointed by the hierarchy of the All Progressives Congress . Senator Godswill Akpabio, Senator Jibrin Barau, Honourable Tajudeen Abass and Honourable Benjamin Kalu, respectively, stepped into their new offices with clear leads. Strategies successful. Missions accomplished.
After democracy grew from its rudimentary stages in Greece and began to take root in other progressive countries, not many pundits envisaged that few persons could supplant this noble mode of government, which has as its core strength the wishes of the majority, and still retain the name. But as it moved to places grappling with the rigours of adopting it, democracy took on various characteristics. But let’s take solace in the fact that we’re making progress of some sort.
Last Saturday, I watched some members of the ninth Assembly give their valedictory remarks. Some were, of course, more convincing than others. And it was obvious that all were united in hoping that posterity would be kind to them. One principle which guides my assessment of persons and situations is that no matter how bad they look, there must be some good in the mix. Somewhere, somehow.
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