I just read a backstory of the intrigues behind the inevitable sack of this gentleman. After going through the report, the fragility of power hit me once again. That is how we will be looking at these people with awe, thinking that they have all of the power in the world but not knowing the “chickens” that they truly are.

For this one, the report tells us how he has been running to beg and beg to retain his post as the powerful Chairman of the biggest party in Africa. From Akande, to Uzodimma and Akume, this person has been groveling, begging, cutting deals, offering “virgins” to keep his seat.

The fragile foundations of power can only stem from the fact that ideology is no longer the vehicle of choice but a patrimony of rent, self-interest and the personification of power.

This throws up “mumu” people who rely on others for their hold on power. When you now throw these characters into power, they can only do what they know how to do – pillage, bend, break the rules and line their pockets. When this is the case, they become pliable and what you get is the mass defection that has now turned our democracy into the seeming one-party monster it is turning into.

Can you imagine an Obafemi Awolowo running to beg anybody to retain his position or a Sardauna doing the same? Can you imagine a Nelson Mandela going to beg Bisi Akande for anything or a Sam Mbakwe?

What we have today are no more than political mercenaries who only know how to plunder for themselves and that is how it is so easy to get them out because there is no base, no foundation, no foothold.

Do you guys remember during the days of the military how we used to fear a very powerful general? They will be saying – ahhh this is the one that is the power behind the throne, this is the one that is holding the government and head of state, and one day they will retire him and all you see is him in safari suit queuing for pension.

Mbok, how can a “popular” former Governor of the large Kano State and Chairman of such a powerful APC just be “sacked” like that with no whimper from his group? The reason is simple na, the man was not a man of ideology, he was just a “kunu” politician – what manner health reasons