Femi Ojo's Premise

Picture courtesy of www.nta.ng and Arisenaija Add aption The current drama in the National Assembly especially the boxing contest in the red chamber last week where politicians who supposed to be honorable in the manner in which they carry their legislative functions but who became disparagingly dishonorable by combating themselves like Mike Tyson of this world in a boxing ring, has clearly shown that the ruling party’s political mafia’s family is yet to settle for a mutual political capo. Capo di tutti capi simply connotes in mafia parlance a supreme “godfather” or Italian parlance “boss of all bosses” and it is common knowledge that in mafia world, tensions and internal warfare for supremacy and power to control other members typified this game. One can see similar characteristics in our ruling party looking at the different contradictions that the party has been characterized with in the current post-election period. The outcomes in both chambers of the Nation...

Photo courtesy www.thecable.ng The recent development in our polity is something that has attracted plethora of comments across the country. To be specific the outcomes of the elections of principal officers in the National Assembly where Senator  Olusola Saraki and Rt. Honorable Yakubu Dogara emerged as President and Speaker of both the Senate and House of Representatives alongside with their deputies respectively have shown the nature of what the current ruling party is. A party that rode on the gullibility of many Nigerians and the near-saint image of President Buhari with an over hyped mantra of “change” appears to me from the contemporary political outcomes in the National Assembly as nothing but an hypocritical political party whose internal contradictions and dynamism if not urgently and well-managed can set the party on a gradual political obscurity. The ruling party’s hypocritical enforcement of party supremacy over its individual ambitious member is a thi...