Nigerian politics is at once exciting and exacting. It is treasury and treachery. When da trouble begins, it is from grumble to rumble to trample. If you don't reach for ya sledge-hammer in good time, you get slammed - for d fly turns bee, then da matter becomes a beehive. Oh, you will be so badly bruised and battered.....and buried, politically.
If you are clean, don't waste ya clearance ace. Get everyone and everything on ya side. Fast!
So, na wetin be all dis grammar, abeg? Okay, it's about The Right Honourable Mrs Patience Olubunmi Etteh, by the grace of God, Speaker of Nigeria's Federal House of Representatives. She is under siege! She seems to be game for all manner of slam and slamming. Yes!
And, yes also, if you can't stand da heat get out of da kitchen, right? Yes! Public office has its glue and glamour - it could be sleek or sticky, striking or stinking, alas! So, the whole gamut comes with da territory, willy-nilly. I gree.
My humble question is: Unlike the usual practice - almost template - all the traditional forces are not out in full for her defence, solicited or unsolicited! Strange. If na before, haba, there would have been all sorts of solidarity committees, holier-than-thou groups, ethnic jingoists, women activists, etc. firing on all cylinders...in her favour! Wetin dey happen? Answers, please.
Is the EFCC or ICPC a stumbling block? Or, is Madam not "shelling out"?
The PDP South-West seems to be either asleep or enjoying da bashing-show. If she were a man, will she be so abandoned? Or wasn't she their real choice?!
I thought as a "cross-breed and matrimony-bridge-builder" the people of Osun and Akwa Ibom plus Cross River would have come together for Madam Speaker. Shouldn't they?
Okay, where are Nigerian Women? Se una no go tie wrapa and warrior-gele come protect una sister, ba?
Well, we watch.
No comments:
Post a Comment