| The successful recovery of AC's mandate in Osun State makes clearer what the political future is likely to be. If birds of the same feather flock together then the return of the progressives, in spite of their having gone astray to worship other strange gods, in Nigerian politics is assured. Recent dramatic confessions in English courts have put to rest the speculation that Ibori the former governor was not the Ibori convicted some years earlier in a British court. The wife and co-accused has unequivocally admitted that they were both convicted for stealing. The sister has contributed her own evidence and is serving only 5 years in prison. Simple logical inference has led me to be sure that our man Ibori has always been a thief and is a thief. Which points to the fact that he stole the votes of the people of Delta State as confirmed by the courts. That being so, it is almost trite to say that the people of that state are not likely to vote the party of the thief back into power. The emerging picture is that Delta, Edo, Ondo, Ekiti, and now Osun states have liberated themselves from the ruling party, the PDP. Lagos is already free. It would seem a mere matter of time for Oyo and Ogun to follow. When and not if that happens the way may be paved for these once progressive areas to forge alliances to develop Educational, Health, and Agricultural policies that will not go against what the Federal government says, but lead to a clearer view of what is best and possible. All the myopic talks of a Northern whatever will leave us where we started from - a struggling but progressive West, a potentially strong East unable to put its acts together, and a North being schackled by its rich and proud leaders who will speak with one voice and have the best place at the sharing / squandering table. . Good luck to them? Amiel |
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