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  • EKEDC: the rich also steal?

    The popular Mexican TV soap was The Rich Also Cry.

    But from complaints, from the Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC), alleging meter bypass, bordering on electricity theft, at the tony Victoria Garden City (VCG), perhaps the first luxury residential estate on the Lagos Lekki axis, you won’t be wrong if you expect a Nigerian follow-up to the Mexican soap: The Rich Also Steal!

    According to a report in the Vanguard of May 21, EKEDC alleged it had discovered bypassed meters at VGC, which suggests some residents may have been pilfering electricity without paying for it!  Holy Moses!   Could the rich also steal?

    But before you jump to any conclusion, perhaps you should pause to do the real demographics of those allegedly involved.  Are they the real rich, which James Hadley Chase in his thrillers loved to call “the rich and the spoilt”?  And even if they are spoilt, could they be spoilt to the extent of stealing electricity, despite their clout, despite their reach, despite their wealth?

    Or it is only the minnows, the rich wannabes who also struggle to put up some appearance among the rich and the mighty, with an eye on the next kill, to actualize their nouveau rich status?

    Or is it the biblical hewers of stone or fetchers of wood, who serve their wealthy and near-Royal majesties, that play a fast one on EKEDC and neatly filch power it buys from  the transmission company and pre-pays at a premium, to enjoy at their wanton pleasure?  Unbelievable!

    But whoever is responsible, could it be good, old Karma at work — or what do you call when a scammer is himself scammed?

    Of course, you won’t dare suggest EKEDC is a scamming corporate citizen.  Neither would you say that of its tag-team mate, Ikeja Electric (I.E.), both the duopoly that straddle the Lagos electricity market and its environment.

    But don’t be too sure their customers, grumbling, dissatisfied and infuriated, won’t call both just that — corporate scammers.  All over the vast market, teeming with no less than an estimated 20 million people, there are daily cries of “crazy bills”, from the unmetered segment of the market.

    But the more the customers scream and bawl, the more arrogantly EKEDC and I.E. barge in, on the neighbourhood, with their disconnection gangs ever eager and ready, always with manic pleasure, to disconnect its customers at the virtual drop of a hat.

    What is more?  While these DISCOs have done little to up the ante in terms of service delivery, they have scaled up their revenue push, so much so that the creed appears payment first, service never!  Now, how do you survive doing business in such a market?

    So, maybe those who steal EKEDC’s electricity are returning the full compliment, stealing back the revenue the DISCOs are “stealing” — or what do you call forceful payment of bills without service — from their helpless and browbeaten market?

    Indeed, the rich — or their proxies — also steal!  No tears for EKEDC?  Hardball didn’t say so!

     

     

     

  • Ali’s House of hunger

    When you exceed the age of work and you are lucky to be rescued by a friend from practiced idleness, it is easy to describe as lazy those who are not so lucky. Especially if you are Hameed Ali whose great credential is that Buhari loves him and picks him to become the head of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS).

    He did not blush when he followed up from what President Buhari roared outside the country about young ones who feel entitled to luxury without exertion. The Customs boss became an exponent of hunger and castigated hungry Nigerians as indolent under Buhari. Hear him: “People say we are hungry. Of course, the lazy must be hungry because if you do not work hard, manna doesn’t fall from heaven.”

    When Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera wrote his short novel, House of Hunger, he was referring not only to the hunger of the body in his country, but also of the soul. Ali is a well-fed man, and you can see that from his ruddy face down to the well-carved white of his goatee. He is thus liable to be accused only of hunger of the mind.

    Hameed Ali needs to be given his credits. He rose to become a colonel before he retired. But he has been too cosy at the top to see what happens in the real world of Nigeria. We cannot take that away from his lofty view at the lawmakers when he insisted he would not don a uniform. Even if he was right, and many doubt it. But part of his remonstration came from a view of himself as a royal creature. That is why he sees lazy people instead of disenfranchised humans. It is the blinkered view of the entitled.

    From what he has been doing in Customs, he seems to be a hardworking man and a man of high integrity. Maybe that is what is deluding him that once you have a heart for work, you will get work. As we say in village, all fingers are not created equal. There are many who just need the opportunity to get work and they will shame poverty.

    Why is he saying this when he was, only a few months ago, the fellow who criticized Buhari has having “derailed?” Is he speaking tongue in cheek? Well, he has derailed big time if he really believed what he said about Buhari veering off course. He should count how many Nigerians graduate every year and square that with how many jobs his principal has created before going to town with such verbal diarrhea.

    Our retired colonel does not know that because he has lived in the upper crust for too long and he has not learned to understand that in this country, hunger is not a choice for most people who starve. It is an imposition of an elite who steal the people’s patrimony and leave little for the rest.

    If the government created enough opportunities for the so-called lazy, they will do wonders for productivity. That is what our great retired colonel needs to know.

  • Poor-verty

    Some things defy all the words even in the Thesaurus. In fact, you would literally need to reach out into space to conjure up something that would merely approximate a description of such an oddity.

    And this is what Hardball has done here. Not one to be stumped in that most malleable art of lexical engineering, he had himself undone, and then redone to reach the required nether depths.

    Poor-verty above, as you must have guessed is simply a combination of ‘poor’ (adjective) and poverty (noun) to create a new word or a nounjective if you like. Didn’t they say a strange situation must be accosted with a stranger response?

    Now consider this: a horde of Nigerians were found rampaging in a large, semi-sludgy pit; a most porcine scene not unlike a herd of pigs foraging in the muck. The video which trended in the internet is a gut-churning anathema.

    What’s going on here you would ask as you view the grimy, rampaging crew, knee-deep in muck? They are foraging for, and retrieving unsafe-for-consumption imported poultry meat which was confiscated and buried deep under this earth a few days earlier.

    As you continue to view the desperate pack almost growling and fighting off one another from individual ‘mining’ lots, you are bound to get lachrymal. You would begin to wonder why your compatriots no longer have self-esteem worthy of even pigs. Nigerians would rummage for buried ‘cadavers’ of contaminated, smuggled chickens surely signposts something below poverty.

    That a country the size of Nigeria has to rely on unhealthy smuggled poultry for so many decades is in itself, a worst kind of mental poverty on the part of her ruling class. It must be modern day wonder that 180 million people cannot deign to master the value chain of poultry production and produce enough for her teeming populace.

    Though importation of poultry products is officially banned, stew pots across the land still bristles with the stuff smuggled through land borders. Most of the so-called frozen poultry are contaminated in the bid to achieve long-term preservation.

    Here is what the Poultry Association of Nigeria says: “… high content of heavy metals like lead, mercury, cadmium and arsenic are in imported chicken samples taken from local markets in Lagos, Ibadan, Port-Harcourt and Abuja. These metals accumulate in the human body over the years and cause gradual damage to kidney, liver and other organs, as it is difficult to decontaminate and excrete them from the human body. Lead causes damage to the heart, brain, bones, intestine and reproductive organs in the human body while mercury causes damage to the brain, spine and fetus (baby in the womb)…”

    If smuggled poultry would wreak such havoc ordinarily, what happens if it were buried and exhumed after some days?

    And with which word would you describe such action?

  • Afenifere: Ebora hawks new poison

    There is a tinge of tragic deja vu, about the Ebora Owu, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, hawking his toxic brew, and going in the direction of Afenifere.

    The last time that happened, in 2002 or thereabouts, the hitherto highly influential Afenifere got defanged; and its hitherto formidable vote-harvester in the Yoruba South West, Alliance for Democracy (AD), got buried — almost without trace.

    Well, 16 years after, Obasanjo is at it again pushing a racket that, like anything Obasanjo, has absolutely nothing to do with nobody but with Olusegun Obasanjo alone.  Well, if Afenifere falls for Obasanjo’s racket of self-worship, that, again in Obasanjo-speak, “na him own toro”!

    But for the sake of collective history, just a brief recap.

    Sometime in 2002, after Obasanjo as president had thoroughly subverted the AD, by poaching a good number of its senators and House of Representatives members to defect to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), he sold a dummy to Afenifere/AD and its South West governors.

    The proposal was simple: since Obasanjo had no popular support in his native South West, the deal was that Afenifere/AD support his second term aspiration by adopting him as its presidential candidate.  In exchange, all the six AD South West governors could return to their seats for second term, subject to re-election of course.

    Well, it’s no secret: all those that bought that dummy were swept away — in Ekiti, Ogun, Oyo, Osun and Ondo.  The sole survivor was Lagos; but that was after not only seeing through Obasanjo’s trick but also resisting his army of electoral poachers, who reportedly had the marching orders to take “Lagos at all cost”!

    Just as well, Lagos wasn’t taken — at whatever cost — and therein was the South West salvation.  It was from Lagos, that sole survivor, Governor Bola Tinubu, fought back to reclaim the region from Obasanjo’s barbarians, led by his “garrison commander”, the late Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu of Ibadan.

    Adedibu not only reserved the right to impeach  Governor Rashidi Ladoja, ironically, one of Obasanjo’s post-2003 “saviours”, he publicly pronounced his right to 30 per cent of Oyo’s security vote, aside from the right to unleash raw violence on anybody that as much as questioned his suzerainty — and mum was it from the sitting president!

    That was Obasanjo’s post-AD/Afenifere South West — stagnant, corrupt and absolutely retrogressive.  What is more?  Another prominent of his “saviours” back then was the enfant terrible called Ayo Fayose!

    But even if that is too back into history, only in 2015, when Nigeria was trying to throw off another Obasanjo imposition, President Goodluck Jonathan, another Afenifere chieftain became revealed as a famed “obtainer” from the Jonathan era electoral slush fund.  That cut Afenifere’s bragging right as some moral purist many notches.  Ironically, the Ebora is hawking his newfangled brew along that same axis!  Wish him the best of luck.

    As for Afenifere, he who is down fears no fall.  Still, if it cares not plumbing lower than it presently is, it would do well to steer clear of Obasanjo and his toxic brew.  Time and time again, it has proved no good — except to Obasanjo himself — and that is pretty much catastrophic to others!

     

  • Wike again?

    Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has come out with another sensational news. He alleged some “federal government” lobbies were trying to assassinate him!

    But Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, has riposted — and fittingly too: that His

    Excellency loves to judge others by his rather low standards!  That was the clincher.  The opening salvo was that eliminating folks wasn’t in the character of his principal, the president.  Fair enough!

    Again, for all it’s worth, the federal authorities should investigate the Wike claim, particularly the bit of feared use of legitimate arms and munitions to do him in.  Wike is governor; and that office is a key democratic institution, which the constitution not only exults (as the head of the executive of the Nigerian federating unit) but also secures (with the full might of the Nigerian state).

    So, that the Police, the prime civil security agency of the Nigerian state, is being dragged to a plot, real or phantom, is the very negation of the letter and spirit — indeed, essence — of the Nigerian Constitution.

    Yet, there is a base, un-governor-like way Wike carries himself, vis-a-vis the licit use of illicit force or the illicit use of licit force.  In the Wike universe, all are fit for politicking.

    For starters, it is perhaps only in Rivers, standing at a lectern bearing the state’s coat of arms, that a governor would brandish and wield a cutlass to make whatever point.  Add that un-gubernatorial image to the eerie dark pair of sunglasses that completely shades off the governor’s eyes, you’ll begin to wonder why Wike adores sinister symbolism so much!

    When the governor takes time off appealing to, nay romanticising illicit force, in a milieu run by law, he is sparring with elements from the Nigeria Police, who don’t see eye to eye with him.  The Wike advert blitz against ACP Akin Fakorede, commander F-SARS in Rivers appears still running.

    How a decent public officer that owes his own office to election would unleash such blitz on another public officer that owes his own career to appointment beggars belief. The blitz not only reeks of blackmail, its sheer viciousness is mind-boggling.

    What if Mr. Fakorede were to lose his job and life-long career, over nothing but vicious gubernatorial blackmail?  But again, the federal authorities should investigate the case and punish or clear the police officer appropriately.

    Again, as Hardball pointed out before, that Wike as gubernatorial candidate misused the same  Police while climbing into office makes his current campaign rather shallow.

    Almost every state has one issue or two with the police, because of how Nigerian federalism is structured.  But about every state too knows how to go about navigating the problem, pending a future resolution.  But right now, Nigeria has one central police, which any wise governor would maximise for the safety and security of his people.

    Honestly, it’s time Wike stopped crying wolf and playing explosive politics with security matters.

  • Attention seekers

    Will the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) make good its threat to disrupt the Ohanaeze summit scheduled for Awka, the Anambra State capital, today?  A statement by IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, said its members would attack the venue, stressing that the Igbo should boycott the summit in their own interest.

    Talking tough, the separatists said: “What the world will witness in Awka on Monday is a battle between good and evil, light versus darkness. On Monday, May 21, 2018, at Ekwueme Square in Awka, the long-suffering, downtrodden people of the East will rise up to say enough is enough. Our 50 years of Fulani captivity, aided and abetted by Ohanaeze Ndigbo will finally come to an end. All agents of darkness and iniquity with red caps, recruited by the caliphate immediately after the war in 1970 to serve their interest and enslave Igbo land, will be exposed.”

    They sounded like they did ahead of the Anambra State governorship election last year. As the November 18 election approached, IPOB had threatened to make it impossible.  The group had terrorised residents of the state, threatening to cause chaos.

    The anti-election drama had begun in June with this ultimatum issued by IPOB leader Nnamdi  Kanu: “If the Federal Government does not agree with us on a date for referendum, there will be no elections in the Southeast; we are starting with Anambra come November this year. There will be no governorship election in Anambra State.” He took the issue further: “In 2019, the whole of Biafra land will not vote for any president. There will be no senator, there will be no House of Reps, there will be no House of Assembly and there will be no councilorship elections in Biafra land if the Federal Government fails to call for a referendum.”

    Even when Kanu was nowhere in sight, days to the election IPOB was still flexing its muscles. Members of the group had marched around with a death threat in Onitsha, Anambra State, reportedly shouting: “If you vote you will die. Don’t go out, stay in your house. If you vote on November 18, you will die…There will be no election.”  This muscle-flexing failed; the election was held. The group was silent; it had been silenced by the election.

    The latest threat shows that the group learnt nothing from its failure.  The attention-seeking group continues to attract negative attention.

     

     

     

  • Crying wolf?

    Dr. Bukola Saraki, president of the Senate, has outed with a sensational allegation, that Ibrahim Idris, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), is plotting to rope him into cases of cult-killer investigations.

    Sensationally, he announced at a Senate plenary that his host governor, Kwara’s Abdulfatah Ahmed, gave him vital intelligence that the Police were about to set both up — Saraki, with the state government  — on cases of allegedly aiding and abetting cult murders.

    Proof?  The police authorities have transferred cases being investigated in Ilorin, Kwara State, and the suspects involved, to Abuja, the federal capital territory.  With the case safely there and the suspects in the police pen, then it would be incrimination without end, to paint Saraki and disciples even blacker that the devil!

    These are serious allegations, not by the weight of the charges but by the self-imposed lightness of those making the allegations — president of Senate and a state government.But what is the Police response to the allegations?  “The statement by the Senate President could dissuade and discourage living victims/deceased families who must have been killed … from coming forward to give evidence against them [the alleged cultist killer gang].”

    Even if the IGP is bluffing here — and he could well be — the Senate’s attempt to intimidate the IGP, over the Dino Melaye case, does not help giving the Senate the benefit of the doubt,  as an unfazed institutional bully, which could subvert due process, if it had its way.

    Might the Police then be suggesting Nigeria’s president of Senate and the Kwara government could be linked to alleged cultists?  Hardball shudders!

    To Hardball, however, the news is not the allegations flying around.  It is rather the chamber those allegations are flying from.  How can an IGP even think of “framing” Nigeria’s Senate president?  How does that even sound?  Would it even have been conceivable if the Saraki Senate had not, most times, abandoned its lofty heights to splash in the sewers?

    Would that have even occurred if the Senate had not engaged the Police in a naked war, summoning the IGP to come explain why Dino Melaye should be arrested and charged for alleged criminality?  Would it have happened if Dr. Saraki had not shielded Melaye from arrest, by allegedly ignoring police invitation to Melaye, allegedly sent to him?

    In other words, would such have been conceivable, had the Senate stuck to its dignified self, and not tried to tailor laws and even motions at plenary to its members’ selfish needs, thus giving the populace the unflattering impression that it is nothing but a conclave of hustlers?

    The authorities should dispassionately investigate the Saraki allegations, and do justice to both sides.  But whatever happens, that the high Senate should tangle with IGP, only a security appointee of the president, over allegations as base as cultist killings, just shows the nadir the Senate, under Saraki, has sunk.

    Does the Julius Caesar quip, that Caesar’s wife must not only be above board, it should be seen to be so, mean anything to this 8th Senate?

    Without prejudice to Saraki and the Kwara Government getting relief from from false accusations, it’s high time this Senate refocused, concentrate on why it was elected, and leave salacious allegations to the sewers they belong.

    Crying wolf here, even if there is one, is more than damaging to Saraki’s personal image and the Senate’s institutional integrity.  It’s high time the Senate worked hard at regaining its dignity.

     

     

  • TELCOS terrorism

    Have you ever been on the highway driving home after a dog’s day at work and your phone rings? You peek at it. It’s an unknown number and you ignore it. It rings off and rings again. You take another look; again an unknown number but a rather peculiar one. It’s a ‘mature’ number as a friend of Hardball would term it: In the sense that it belongs to the first or second generation series of numbers.

    And it keeps ringing relentlessly as if you are about to miss a major job if you ignored it. You reach out and manage to pick it and put it on speaker; disregarding the traffic code against fiddling with the phone while driving. And what do you get? A recording – someone desperately trying to sell you something.

    Gosh! Your brains literally explodes in ire and you reach out quickly to shut down the irritant; you miss with the first jab and the second … your car swerves a little. You ignore the phone; reclaim your wheels as the promo continues to rant searingly running its full course. Now you are probably boiling over and cursing furiously under your breath. You feel so thoroughly ravaged and your blood pressure may have gone up one notch.

    There are as many scenarios as there are GSM phone users in Nigeria. The telecommunications companies have grown from feeding frenzy on us their helpless game to the realms of terrorism. When this ravenously bad habit started about four years ago, it was enough to stay with those text-and-win promos.

    You must remember that crazy era when some of the telcos offered SUVs and millions of naira to be won if you recharged. That epoch ended when one of the firms lost its mind and offered us an aeroplane. RECHARGE-AND-WIN-AN-AEROPLANE was the promo that ‘killed’ all promos. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) eventually got shame-faced enough to snap from its slumber and tried to moderate the madness.

    No sleek-fingered telco has offered us a Concorde jet ever since but they have not stopped pecking at us like vultures upon a dying game. Hardball chose to keep his treasure of short messages from his service providers and in just one month of August, he got no fewer than 100 messages from each of the three lines he uses. The barrage of messages is a curious admixture of picking my pockets and obtaining by all manner of unscrupulous guises.

    Here are a few examples: Dateline August 11, 2016, time 20:33: Dear customer, you have successfully subscribed to MTNsports EPL and N50.00 deducted from your account. Your service will be renewed on 2016-08-18. To cancel, text stop EPL to 5836. Enjoy!

    One never remembered subscribing to the above and even if perchance I had been tricked into it as they are wont to do these days, I never received one word of information on the EPL game.

    But every week one gets the notification for renewal and deduction of N50.00. This is just one example. There are so many more from all the firms.

    If this is not criminality bordering on terrorism, then what is it?

  • ORA: when I.E. came calling

    ORA is a Lagos community — Okota Residents Association, Zone A — which covers the unmetered tracks of Ikeja Electric, IE’s Okota, Lagos household electricity market.  The area seethes with fury, over what the residents call I.E. “crazy bills” — which indeed they are.

    So, on Saturday, May 12, at the compound of Mount Zion Acadamy, a private school in the community, two I.E. top staff came calling to explain the billing imbroglio: Aderonke Edet Udoh, the Okota Undertaking Manager for I.E. and Chukwuma, Energy Safe Supervisor, whose job is more closely connected with billing and disconnection of erring customers.

    Mrs Edet Udoh, cool, collected and articulate, tried her best to explain I.E. wasn’t fiddling the bill it sends its irate customers, since those bills were automated, and based on some rigorous parameters.

    Automation is neither here nor there.  What comes out of the computer is as good as what was fed into it — remember the old garbage-in, garbage-out computer quip?  But the parameters, which Mrs Edet Udoh insisted was Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC)-sanctioned, had a more logical ring.

    Mr. Chukwuma, on his own side, participated only as a side-kick, with Mrs. Edet Udoh doing most of the explanation.  Still, you could see, in the two, a schizophrenic I.E: one  (Edet Udoh) trying to adapt to customer-savvy service ethos (as every private company should do) and the other (Chukwuma) with the body language (even if benign) of the all-mighty, all-crushing, all-notorious NEPA of old, with the arrogance of federal might.  Over all, however, the pair pulled off a decent show.

    But even from their explanations, it was clear there was little fairness in I.E. billing.  The company claims it meters transformers to determine the level of power consumed.  That it now shares, by simple average, to all customer households, as their respective consumptions.  That clearly is over-billing some customers for power not consumed and under-billing others for excessive power consumed.  That cannot meet the muster of fairness.

    The solution, of course, would be pre-paid metering.  But according to Mrs Edet Udoh, it would come though she didn’t know when.  Still, she assured the area was already 70 per cent metered, leading to the cynical riposte, from her pissed audience, that the un-metered customers were I.E’s fraudulent cash cows!

    The gathering parted but the billing problem was unresolved.  Indeed, the meeting parted hardly on a cordial note; and since then, the ORA social media platform has been ablaze with anger, at a perceived I.E, that renders little service but harvests illicit bills, on the pains of arbitrary disconnection.

    O, the perceived notoriety of the area’s marketer, one Emmanuella, was echoed by almost everyone present.  As arrogant and insensitive as they come, the gathering accused her of always gruffly telling complainants she had a revenue target to meet.  But pray, what about the service that earns that revenue?

    Let I.E look into its billing technique again, to achieve fairer billing.  It should also fast-track its metering programme, for in that lies the ultimate solution.

    If it doesn’t, it risks a serious blow-out with its furious market.  Both I.E’s Alausa, Ikeja head office should take note; and so should NERC, and even its supervising Ministry of Works, Power and Housing.

    A stitch in time saves nine.

     

     

  • Guess the guest lecturer on ideology?  Mimiko!

    It the May 2 symposium in Lagos to mark the 10th anniversary of the passage of Afenifere Leader, Senator Abraham Aderibigbe Adesanya (AAA), a young contributor, at the question-and-answer session, wondered if ideology was still relevant in Nigerian politics.

    He had been impressed by how speaker after speaker regaled the gathering with the principle and steadfastness and doughty ideology of AAA’s politics; and how he wouldn’t bit an eyelid to die for his principles.

    Yet the young man was scandalized with the way politicians moved seamlessly from party to party, ideology be damned, making him to wonder if ideology still existed in Nigerian politics.

    When broadcast ace, Yori Folarin, moderator of the symposium, gave Dr. Olusegun Mimiko,former Ondo State governor the floor, Mimiko declared “irresistible”, his urge to speak on the matter.

    And he fired off, on a brilliant lecture really, on why ideology would always be an integral part of Nigerian — and for that matter, any — politics, since politics was the frame on which any from of governance was hanged.  True.

    He also declared that the problem with Nigeria had always been the conservatives on the upswing, leaving the progressives in the lurch; and, in the process, plunging the masses into poverty and underdevelopment — hear, hear, hear!

    Then he zeroed in, on what he called “financialism”,  the latest form of political conservatism —  as the inimitable Kwame Nkrumah (God bless his soul), would dub neocolonialism the latest stage of imperialism? — which explained, he added, why near-zero investment was going into schools, hospitals and even the real productive sectors of the economy.

    Why should you, he posed that leading question quite triumphantly, when you could sit by your computer, punch the buttons and gross billions, just like that! — applause, applause, thunderous applause, for the brilliant lecturer!

    But apart from the rogue pastor in the Yoruba quip that warns his congregants to “do what I say and not what I do”, where does Mimiko himself stand in the ideological matrix?

    Between 1999 and 2014, Mimiko had traversed the entire ideological spectrum: Alliance for Democracy (AD, progressive: 1999-2003); Peoples Democratic Party (PDP, conservative: 2003-2007, even becoming secretary to the Ondo government and a minister under President Obasanjo to the bargain); Labour Party (LP, progressive conservative, conservative progressive, and which other hybrid?: 2007-2014, replete with the Ondo governorship); and back to PDP, neo-conservative?: 2015)!

    Now what do you think — our brilliant lecturer himself as excellent and majestic profile in ideology-neuter politics?

    Fela, on the other side, must be very excited this morning, on Mimiko and the gold ideology lecture.

    “Tisa,” he is humming, his Abami Eda eye glinting with eager mischief, “no teach me nonsense!” 

    What!  Even AAA himself is rocking!