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Monday, February 21, 2011
MALLAM NUHU RIBADU, PLAGUED BY LACK OF A VIABLE RUNNING MATE.
A political neophyte by his own right, former EFCC mallam from Adamawa State and now presidential candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has yet again fumbled in the latest choice of a running mate. Call it the proverbial "double wahalla for dead body" syndrome of a novitiate presidential candidate saddled with a nobody political greenhorn vice presidential candidate?
However Icheoku sympathizes with Mallam Nuhu Ribadu for being unable to free himself from the leech of his sponsor, Bolaji Tinubu, in choosing his running mate. Bola Tinubu cannot afford to let Nuhu Ribadu run free and has to maintain a stranglehold on him by wily-nilly imposing a candidate on him. Moreover, the ACN being a Yoruba party, cannot afford to have other tribes producing both their presidential as well as vice presidential candidates of the party. Otherwise what does the ACN stand to gain by spitting the Igbo South-East by removing the former running mate of Ribadu, Sunny Ugochukwu; and now venturing into the mouth of the Tiger, Ogun State, to get their latest running mate? Newest Ribadu's running mate, Afolabi Tajudeen Adeola's Ogun State is the home of Otta Deity Olusegun Obasanjo, the incumbent Governor Olu Gbenga and the Speaker of the House of Representatives Bankole. Icheoku wonders what the political calculation is in selecting Mr. Adeola, all of these competing odds considered. So with Yoruba vice presidential candidates for both Buhari and Ribadu, and Obasanjo influence included, the Yoruba South-West votes will now be split into three; leaving the entire South-South and South-East just for President Jonathan; with the entire north still at play?
Icheoku queries, who are political advisers to these opposition political parties or don't they have any for them to know about catchment areas of politics? Anyway those whom the gods want to kill he first make mad and so it is that the candidacy of Mallam Nuhu Ribadu has suffered a still-birth with this latest choice of a running mate, singing its requiem even before the April election! As it stands now, Icheoku says, all hail President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, president and the commander in chief of the Nigerian armed forces for the next four years!
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