Politics is first of all a power not governance game. [With Corrections]
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The truth is not that President Muhammadu Buhari just won't, but can't sack Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), and his counterpart in the Ministry of Interior, Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau. Sacking any or all of the two is not the way politics, the politics of power goes.
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Perhaps it is now clear to informed observers that Nigeria's greatest political strategistm, in terms of personal or group acquisition of power is General Sani Abacha. And this is built on established facts not asserted fancies. The rap that a Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Ashiwaju Bola Tinubu and or Babangida are great strategists of the power game is not proven by the facts of it. And this is so on the national scene. The national scene is our area of immediate concern.
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If one checked off the deficits and aces of the Awolowo and Tinubu performances in the power game, one thing is clear. Both suffered irredeemably from the hands of their alliance partners.
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In Awolowo's case it was so much that his northern alliance partners foreswore his ever being president. And this is despite his sacrifices for them during and after the civil war. Awolowo not only helped the north to win the civil war, he absent mindedly handed over the country, whole and entire to the north. It was during this age of innocence or absentmindedness that the north got round to restructuring the country into a political agent and province of the north. In a sense the call for the restructuring of the country is a verdict on the Awolowo naivety in handing over the country to his co-confederates. And he did this on one hope. He wanted to be president or prime minister. And the north said no. It was so bad with him and the north, he had to come down east to shop for a vice president. Boy things happen.
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Of Tinubu, the biting comments by Nadeco old hand Chief Adebanjo is proof enough. Immediately Tinubu sacrificed all to erect Buhair president and his hero, he, Tinubu was dismissed and branded a stranger to power. But worse, it was in such a self-compromised manner, that he can't even protest his own marginalization. See Adebanjo's comments.
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Check all these against the Abacha's alliance with General Ibrahim Babangida. What is revealed is that Abacha is as good a prince, as Machiavelli would have canvassed for Medici Italy. Abacha understood power as no other Nigerian known to this correspondent. First he understood that power was a dangerous and duplicitous hunt. And he understood too that when the jungles mature, any bodies can be gamed and or haunted. He also understood that the alliance with which you won a battle is not the alliance with which you govern the victory. That is that alliance partners can be sacrificed for more power or its sustainability for the winner faction.
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So strategic prescience required that you secured an independent power base before entering into any alliance, before any wars. And that you make sure that even within that alliance, that as you keep your support and power base integrated, you do so in manner that they are separate or easily separable. The lesson is to never fuse your power base into any other and hand over command, to any persons or angels, save to yourself. The morality is simple. An alliance is only as good as can be enforced. That is an alliance between two insurgent parties that leads to victory, becomes immediately fragile. Its old power sharing rations and ratios may only be sustainable if the two parties are equally and independently powerful, that is in rough parity terms. Please see the thoughts of Alfred von Tirpitz the German admiral.
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Otherwise the old alliance will be now structured with the weaker party made or forced into a dependency tributary state. It has happened severally since ancient Greeks. Athens converted her allies into dependencies after victories.
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It is in the logic of this gambit that one has to understand Abacha's power imperial statement. And he was addressing his Commander in Chief, General Ibrahim Babangida. Abacha, as a commander, sure of his forces, he impishly told his CIC: We came together and we shall go together.
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The point is that Abacha wasn't moralizing or bluffing. He knew and insisted on keeping his army fully under him and loyal to him first - and this even in his unity of purpose with Babangida. As chief of army staff he never let Babangida mess with the army in any form or force. They remained first and above all Abacha's army.
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In fact a Vanguard columnist Dr Dele Sobowale reported that a news release was issued by Babangida's faction. It carried the momentous news that Abacha had been retired from the army. Apparently Babangida didn't know that there then was no Nigerian army. What existed in real terms was Abacha-Nigerian Army. And the so called release sacking Abacha from his army, from Abacha Army, was hurriedly rescinded, and withdrawn. If you asked why, the answer is this. Abacha had the battalions to so demand and effect things. You don't give command by words of mouth. You give commands, by the outplay of forces at play and at work. And if you insisted otherwise then you have called for a showdown.
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In summary Abacha knew that there is no depth of alliance today that can guarantee eternal unity and respect of alliances, eternally. That is Abacha knew that what kept alliances are not goodwill or words to that effect. What keeps alliances are the play of forces.
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That is erstwhile allies can come to blows and they have in history at the group or personal levels. Russia and Stalin and Hitler and Germany. Awolowo and Akintola/Zik and Eyo Ita. So no matter the alliance, the duty of the strategic player is to prepare for a showdown tomorrow. Not precipitate it, but to be so prepared.
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Now Buhari was a victim of the Abacha-Babangida alliance putsch. They pushed him out of power and almost out of history. He just recovered. Our suspicion is that that has made him a better strategist. He has learnt more about power. Those who think Buhari strategically naïve, may be losing the point. That he beat an ace, Tinubu, to it should make us concede things, however grudgingly to him.
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And one of the rules of the power game is that, you don't sack your inner team members. Why? Because you can't. They are privy to too many secrets to be out in the open looking for jobs. An applicant, a job seeker, is a very vulnerable person. He could be hired. And your enemies will offer him a premium, not just for his person but for his prized information and insider knowledge. The point is that Malami (SAN), Dambazau and the rest are members of the Buhari sanctum sanctorum. They collectively and severally know where the dead are buried, where the ghosts hover. And who killed them.
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The only way to lose such men is through death, not sack. So those calling on Buhari to sack any or all of those guys are not getting the gist. The cost to Buhari may be his presidency and almost certainly his bid for second term. The best he can do is to reshuffle them. They are the princes of the house, the iwarefas as the Yoruba will say. They own the power, in part at least. They are not viziers. The viziers are those you sack. The viziers are those who are hired and may be sacked. The princes you keep. It is an ancient and iron lore.
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A similar example happened with President Jonathan. The guy who killed millions, ok scores of innocent kids, promising them fake immigration job just to make illicit billions for himself, couldn’t be fired by Jonathan. Jonathan couldn’t summon the liver to do so. But poor pitiful Ms Stella Oduah, whose sins are not very clear or half as damaging, was quickly pushed. The question is why. The point is simple. David Mark who was Jonathan's enforcer had the murderer-minister as his princeling. The homicidal minister was a part of the Mark house of power. And Jonathan depended on Mark to pacify several important constituencies. That included the north, the army and the senate. So neither Mark nor his nominees could do any wrong. Sorry could be fired. That is the logic of it. The cost would have been too much for a Jonathan. So he keeps them. And in the end as was written in the book revelations, Senator Mark and President Jonathan, literally came together and went together. Ahiazuwa.
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Lesson you don't sack princes or princesses who will bring the kingdom and you down. You keep and or are advised to keep them to strengthen your power. Keeping and projecting power, not ruling the people, is the game. Ruling the people is an afterthought, if thought of at all. It is all in the game.

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And lest we forget too, President Jonathan couldn't garner the liver to sack Ms Madueke. And this is despite the many complaints against her. At least former Governor of Akwa Ibom and a fervent Jonathan supporter complained. He couldn't see Ms. Madueke for 2 and more years running. And Jonathan couldn't do anything, couldn't sack her. Why? As oil minister, Ms Madueke was in the know of a few big things, like the hedgehog. So how dare you throw her to the dogs?

Courtesy: Jimanze Ego-Alowes

Lol one long trash

OP you are romanticising corruption and nepotism

That’s the simple fact. There is nothing clever about what Buhari and Dambazau are doing.

It is easy to play power games when you have power.

Interesting, your logic are reasonable.