Sunday, October 12, 2014

GOVERNORSHIP ENDORSEMENTS, THE IRONY OF UNLEARNED LESSON?

Icheoku says each of these governors busily running around with endorsing their successors were respectively themselves endorsed by someone, their predecessors. But can someone please tell Icheoku which of them, except for Lagos State's Fashola and very few others, who did not eventually fall out with their so called endorser? It is on record too that even Fashola tried to declare his independence but was ruthlessly subdued with threat of impeachment engineered by the man who made him governor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Recall Enugu State Governor Chime and former Governor Nnamani; Abia State Governor Orji and former Governor Uzor Kalu as well as Akwa Ibom Governor Akpabio and the State's former governor, just to mention a few examples of governors who were brought into office by their predecessors but who since fell out and do not see eye to eye with their former benefactors. 

Icheoku asks what then is the use or expected benefit that these new endorsers expect would accrue to them by embarking on similar fruitless exercise, trying now to handpick their own successors when it never worked out well in the past? Icheoku maintains that except the saying 'what goes around comes around' is no longer trite, these new endorsers  would themselves reap the fruit of their own whirlwinds as they will similarly be banished on exile, away from their respective home states, by the same people they are now pushing to succeed them. They did it to their predecessors, so what is wrong if their successors also do it to them? It is the way of the world but regrettably and unfortunately, it remains a great irony of life that humans do not necessarily learn from historical experiences.

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