Dad
One of the high reasons I stayed out of partisan politics is the dog-eat-dog nastiness, the rabid hypocrisy and that queer winner-takes-all mentality which pervade its sinking domain. These days, Dad, friends easily become fiends overnight, and you won't know what hit you! Horrors.
The feuds between numbers one and two at all levels of power play out like fiction-on-wheels! For example, some governors and their deputies are so sworn to enmity that we must ask what brought them together in the first place! At the local government levels, the dramas are all so bizarre and outlandish you begin to moan for Nigeria. The tales are blood-chilling. Why would the lust for power push people to these depths? Where is the service they openly professed and gleefully promised the voters! Questions, questions...
Papa, the most worrisome part is at the presidency. In the last few days, both Numbers one and two have granted extensive press interviews to visiting editors from the United States. It was pure venom! Not that their own presidency is smelling of roses at the moment o! What with the Iraq and Afghanistan crises, the rejection by American voters, the hostile bipartisan Congress, increasing international isolation and the depressing opinion polls cum approval ratings? Bleak.
But we speak of Nigeria. The bottom line is that these leaders have now gone beyond the Elders' Court; no one motions, moderates or mends anymore! The Elders have simply given up, alas! It is now a season-for-all with reason in willful bondage! All is now fair, all be fair game, at last!!
What be next, who be next? Questions, questions, questions...
The next 100 Days will tell.
Yours in thoughts
Dayo
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