We are not going to complain that Nigeria has been reduced to metaphors in the Animal Farm.

For all its worth, it tells the state of the country at the moment where there is a diabolic lack of clarity about the President. Last he was seen was in Nigeria, before supposedly living for London. After 6o days, his location is unknown as is the progress of the treatment for which he took the indefinite holiday.

A select number of close persons have unfairly guarded the President’s true health condition from the knowledge of Nigerians while plotting their moves on the next person to replace him should anything happen. They want to have a secure plan in place for the time that the Federal Executive Council may eventually decide to trigger Section 141.

The Ministers on the Buhari cabinet, most of whom have grossly underperformed in the twenty months of this administration, find themselves at the centre of one of Nigeria’s most sensitive political moments in history. The audio tape of the Attorney-General speaking to the Press about the FEC’s position on the statement by the Acting President Yemi Osinbajo that Magu did not need to be confirmed by the Senate, sparked its own row, raising frictions between the cabinet and the head of Government. And following the disagreement between the Senate and Osinbajo on the Magu case, the Acting President will not have been sleeping with two eyes closed over the past week.

He will need to stay awake and be well placed to smell the rat. The power play has become insane. Despite the CLARITY of the Constitution on the process of handing over power from a President to the Vice in the case where such is necessary, a combination of history and present ethnic tensions in the country have removed the seal of certainty on any process.

To his credit, the Acting President has looked unflustered by all the chaos, going about his business of being the best Acting President he could be. But in the climate that currently pervades the Aso Villa, he must know that any untoward activity that will occur from the outside will necessarily be informed from the inside.

There are probably fewer friends of his in the Villa now than ever before; perhaps that is why his aide, Laolu Akande, has had his Twitter handle verified, to separate the house rats from the Chihuahuas.

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