Dr. Saraki got elected Senate President and in an unparalled and unprecedented conspiratorial perfidy someone from the opposition party, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, nicked the Deputy Senate President’s position. The party chairman, Mr. John Odigie Oyegun, and his co-travellers who had been bludgeoned into stupor refused to accept defeat. They merely put on display a marathon of empty sabre-rattling while the power-holders tightened their grip on its levers. “For the Senate President and the Kwara State Governor this office is unable to establish from the evidence in the interim report a nexus between the alleged offences and the suspects. From what we hear the package consists of an automatic nomination and election as Senate President while some juicy oil blocks are to be thrown into the bargain.

Source: The Guardian July 31, 2018 03:11 UTC