SANMI ADEKOLA BLOG

The Nigeria political landscape is a beautiful political melodrama, full of intrigues and painfully exciting memories. Hardly will a day goneby, without nauseating political activities to savour and devour no matter your distate for such issue. As dramatic as the Nigeria political scenes, so are its players and characters. It is a made up of a handful politicians whose preoccupation is to milk dry the nation to the bone marrow no matter the excruciating effect on the larger populace. Next to this is the political jobbers who live at the mercy of the political office holders with sole motive of manipulating and undermining the political process for their selfish motives. Everything is right so far there is something in its for me. Their loyalty to the public office holders is on the basis of what they get.  Another set of people within the political landscape is the overnight social critics who see nothing goods in the government of the day because they have lost in the pol...

The Africa continent no doubt is a failure as far as the issue of leadership is concerned, all thanks to self-imposed greedy and selfish leaders. Added to this is the cowardice and passivity of the followers. Every time the continent appears to be coming out of the wood, somebody somewhere will drive it back to the mud. Just hope the continent is not a cursed one? Otherwise,how can individual spent 22 years in Office and still be hell-bent on turning his country to a battle ground? Since the issue of Gambia election has come up, have tried to dissect the raison  detres that Jammeh may have that will necessitate and justify his refusal to hand over power; but none is worthy enough to my rational self. Arguably, power is sweet but the sweetness of power is not a sufficient basis to warrant the mindless wasting of innocent souls for personal ambition, as doing so can only come from a delusioned individual. The fact however is that sit-tight oligarchy is a common currency of...