Watch Thy Present, Mind The Past

All present and past political actors must introspect. The political terrain is treacherous and retroactive. No escape....for long.

Future players can't, shouldn't, be counseled. The proverbial cane that thrashed their seniors remains enscounced in the loft. It will descend with generous ferocity in their own moments of heist! Why pretend?

The lessons are writ large in our public domain. What be prompt this warning, do you ask? Oh, dear moon-citizen, it is the new presidential scandalfest - a mutual dirty and murky linen plus underpants public laundering of sorts. It has become a street fight with little to hide, scanty to hold on to. The late afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, coined it "roforofo" fight. How true of Aso Rock! The media celebrate it as Presidential Roforofo!!

Patience has its virtue: Nigerians will come out of this messy and mesmerising scandal a richer and saner nation. We have a good chance of recovering the political space from rent-seekers, do-gooders and miscreants, and reclaim a reasonable portion of looted resources. EFCC has so promised. We must watch.

Who now wants to contest on the basis of erstwhile Aso Villa endorsements (or its counterparts in states), or by scaling the public's present "aware" scrutiny? This is the bounden burden of all our aspirants! Godfatherism and garrison politics be now tainted and damned. Counsel: Those short-sighted name-dropping paperweights better listen to the music of our noon. Interestingly, Col Ahmadu Ali, the PDP (which faction?) chairman, has vowed that Abuja will no longer choose or "impose" candidates on the grassroots! Hear, hear. How time changes....all things!

You seek office? Check ya history.

Want our votes? Watch ya company.

Got the post? Mind ya work.

Pray, all the above will help or haunt you. And all temporary gains will dissolve into excruciating pains in the fullness of time. Incumbency or no incumbency, the people will win in the end. That is the power of time. Watch out.

Did The JOKERS Hear?

You know we have some die-hard players and spoil-sports who never give in or give up on their dastardly schemes. They exist everywhere. But in our land, they are buoyant.

With regard to the interim national nonsense, sorry, government, I applaud President Obasanjo for calling both the plot and its proponents by their right name: EVIL. Period.

We hope they heard the president. This must be the end of that straying. Let the media give them a wide berth, and add a blackout to the president's knock-out punch on them.

Again, did they hear???