[size=15pt]JONATHAN’S EX-MINISTERS’ AWFUL OUTINGS AT PDP PRIMARIES[/size]



Until recently, they called the shots in their respective ministries. When they talked, people, except the critical members of the society, listened. When they gave orders, people obeyed. They mattered very much in the corridors of power. And they were also among the prominent members of the President Goodluck Jonathan-led cabinet. These ministers, namely Labaran Maku (Information), Onyebuchi Chukwu (Health), Emeka Wogu (Labour and Productivity) and Musiliu Obanikoro (Minister of State for Defence), left the known for the unknown, as they dumped their juicy ministerial positions and entered the gubernatorial race in their respective states.

What could have been responsible for this? Could it be due to over-bloated impression of themselves? Could it also have been due to their seemingly untested popularity? Maku contested in the PDP primary in Nasarawa State; Onyebuchi slugged it out with other contestants in Ebonyi State; Wogu slugged it out with other contestants in Abia, and Obanikoro, again, tried his luck in Lagos State.

But the outcome of last week’s primaries in those states showed that they were mere paper tigers! Before the primaries, these former ministers exuded so much confidence. Many even saw it as a demonstration of arrogance. But their individual ego was bruised, as they lost, in most cases, to less popular candidates. Maku, ex-Minister of Information lost to Yussuf Agabi; Onyebuchi, ex-Minister of Health, was defeated by Engr. Dave Umahi; Wogu, ex-Minister of Labour and Productivity, was crushed by Okezie Ipkeazu and Obanikoro, ex-Minister of State for Defence, suffered an embarrassing defeat in the hands of Jimi Agbaje, thereby giving his ambition of becoming the next governor of Lagos State a kiss of death.

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