STEVE NWOSU



Anybody who bought the cock and
bull story about the federal
government banning codeine and
Tramadol obviously did not watch
the two political rallies that held in
Akwa Ibom State recently. I saw old
men, many of them above 60 years
old, jumping like they were on
steroids, and telling lies that would
leave the Devil green with envy.


They were contradicting and
condemning themselves with
reckless abandon. And their equally
‘stoned’ audience clapped and
giggled, with very few of them able
to remember what they just heard,
or why they were clapping in the
first place.
Only Tramadol, qat, glue
and codeine, or a combination of
all, could have induced such
hyperactivity.
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But I don’t want to talk about Uyo,
Ikot Ekpene or even Bauchi today. I
have a more ‘pressing matter of
urgent national importance’ at
hand: the seeming one-point
agenda of both the APC and the
Muhammadu Buhari presidency to
impeach Senate President Bukola
Saraki.
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Against the backdrop of its 49
members, in a Senate of 109
members, 53 of whom are
allegedly of the All Progressives
Congress (APC), no Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) senator has
the ‘right’ to be Senate President.
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But if your name is Bukola Saraki,
then, you probably have the right.
And you know what? It is legit! And
not even all the veins on Adams
Oshiomhole’s clean-shaven head,
and neck, can change that.
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And talking of Oshiomhole, I will
not join the Dancing Senator from
Osun in alleging that the APC
chairman does not have a First
School Leaving Certificate. I am,
however, convinced the former Edo
State governor either reads his
Constitution upside-down, or the
statute book may have lost some
vital details in the course of
interpreting it from English to
Oshiomhole’s native language.
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That is the only explanation that
can suffice for the conviction with
which the APC chairman is going
about his crusade for Saraki’s
impeachment. He adds
“constitutionally” almost as an
afterthought when he says Saraki
must be impeached. That the
Kwara strongman has stolen APC’s
crown and taken it to PDP. That he
must either resign or be
impeached.
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.In fact, if you listen to Oshiomhole
pontificating about how Saraki
took APC’s crown to PDP, you
would almost think that the APC
made Saraki Senate President.
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But anybody who was not on
Tramadol when that election held,
three years ago, would recall that
the APC did everything to stop
Saraki. It was only a handful of APC
senators, a splinter of Saraki’s
loyalists within the Senate, who
joined hands with the PDP to make
the former Kwara State governor
the primus interpares of the Senate.
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At the time that was going on, if I
my memory still serves me well,
the bulk of APC senators were in
some curious meeting with the
Presidency and its goons
elsewhere, plotting how to install
Ahmad Lawan as Senate President.
They were supposed to driven in a
pre-victory convoy to the National
Assembly complex, where they
would perfect what had been
agreed upon.
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.But Saraki, his APC loyalists, and the
PDP pulled the rug from under
their feet. Before the pro-Buhari
APC senators could rush back to the
chambers, it was all over. Too late!
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For the avoidance of doubt, PDP,
not APC, made Saraki Senate
President. That was why he had to
go into an accord with the PDP to
give it the Deputy Senate President
slot.
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I still recall how the outsmarted
senators and their party were
almost bursting a vein, swearing
that the Saraki election would not
stand. But it was all hot air. Saraki
was on the side of the law. And,
lest we forget, his election has
stood, for the fourth year running.
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Watching the mindless defections
from APC to PDP and PDP to APC,
and back again to PDP, APGA, ADC
and even outright partylessness, in
the case of Senator Tejuoso, and
the putrid defecations that come
out of the defectors mouths in
justification of their defections, one
is convinced that there are still
several other mind-twisting
substances NAFDAC has yet to take
off the list.
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More on the article;
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It is even worse with us, their followers, who seem to swallow
everything they say and then go
ahead to break our heads over
them, believing just everything
they want us to believe. We must
be on something cheaper than
what our politicians are sniffing.
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That’s why there’s this inexplicable
national amnesia.
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Like they did with Atiku, they tell
us Saraki is a thief and must,
therefore, resign. We soon join the
chorus, forgetting that none of the
thieves leading the treble of this
national sing-song has ever
resigned from anything. They
forget that our politicians are like
the proverbial tortoise heading to
its in-law’s: promising not to return
until it is disgraced.
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Our politicians
don’t leave office on their own
volition. They have to be disgraced
out of office. It is then left to the
APC and the Presidency to perfect a
way of disgracing him out of office...
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But while they are at it, they must
also recognise the right of Saraki to
put up a fight. And they must also
not forget that he does not fight
like a bully. He fights intelligently!
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Meanwhile, all that effort to
compare Saraki to Sen. Godswill
Akpabio is outright intellectual
timidity – or maybe someone is
trying to be smart by half.
Akpabio resigned because he had
no choice. Saraki did not resign
because he has a choice. Akpabio
resigned because he did not have
the law on his side to stay on.
Saraki is staying on because he has
the law on his side.
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But that has not stopped politicians
trying to draw a parallel between
them. They claim Akpabio is a man
of honour, high morals and
integrity – qualities they allude are
lacking in Saraki. I won’t fault them.
It’s just that I can’t laugh!
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I guess I must be the only person
foolish enough to think that, as
Minority Leader, Akpabio’s office
was tied to the party. He could not
have left the minority party to join
the majority party, and still
retained his position of Minority
Leader.
Saraki, on the other hand, is the
president of the Senate, a position
which has, by convention, been
reserved for the majority party, but
which can be given to just any
senator – including APGA senators.
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So, if I were Saraki, I would not
resign. Not because it is not proper
to resign, but because that is what
his traducers want. They know that
there is very little or nothing they
can do, constitutionally, to kick out
Saraki, so they are blackmailing and
stampeding him to resign. They
know they no longer have the
numbers (two-third majority) to
impeach him. They only have the
numbers (simple majority) to elect
a new Senate President, if Saraki
resigns.
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Their best bet, therefore, is to wait
till 2019. They either go to Kwara
and rig him out (because only
rigging would stop his returning to
the Senate) or they wait till he
returns to the Senate in 2019, to
make sure he never returns as
Senate President. For I doubt if
Saraki is honestly plotting to be
President of Nigeria in 2019, as
some of his opponents would want
us believe.
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But Saraki, who is now seemingly
having the last laugh, having
outsmarted the Presidency and
APC, should not expect us to march
in the streets in his support when
his opponents get their act
together. For as he is plotting to
stay on, others are plotting to see
his back. And as we say in my
neighbourhood beer parlour, every
drug has an expiry date.
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Until then, however, Saraki’s
opponents, who, by extension, are
also Yakubu Dogara’s enemies,
must be high on expired Tramadol
to think that the two lawmakers
would recall their colleagues from
vacation when they are not sure of
what pranks their traducers are up
to. No blackmail about budget,
election funds and funds for
infrastructure would change the
situation.
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Saraki knows that all the calls for
reconvening the National Assembly
have nothing to do with the
appropriation bill or funding for
INEC. Thankfully, those making the
calls also know that Saraki knows
this. What is now going on is the
battle for the mind of the gullible
citizenry. Each camp is hiding its
own selfish interest behind a
veneer of national interest, even as
what they are really trying to
achieve is very clear: each camp is
trying to incite the populace
against the other camp.

Even the person that wrote this is on"Codeine diet"...

This thread is very very informative, thank you OP.

Nogodye:
Even the person that wrote this is on"Codeine diet"...

lazy Nigerian youth with lazy brain for comprehension;(;(

daroz:
This thread is very very informative, thank you OP.

uwc sir

Deserves front page.

Devil de "green" with envy abi? I knew a scumbag was paid to do a hatchet job via this piece.

He himself is high.


Green ko, Nigerian flag ni

With tramadol diet



[qwuote author=Nogodye post=70378824]Even the person that wrote this is on"Codeine diet"...[/quote]

The wise lives long on fresh while the foolish lives on the leftover.

unohbethel:


Meanwhile, all that effort to compare Saraki to Sen. Godswill Akpabio is outright intellectual timidity – or maybe someone ist trying to be smart by half.

Akpabio resigned because he had no choice. Saraki did not resign because he has a choice. Akpabio
resigned because he did not have the law on his side to stay on. Saraki is staying on because he has
the law on his side.

I guess I must be the only person foolish enough to think that, as Minority Leader, Akpabio’s office was tied to the party. He could not have left the minority party to join the majority party, and still retained his position of Minority Leader.

Saraki, on the other hand, is the president of the Senate, a position which has, by convention, been reserved for the majority party, but which can be given to just any senator – including APGA senators.

My sentiments exactly ...

Caseless:
Devil de "green" with envy abi? I knew a scumbag was paid to do a hatchet job via this piece.

He himself is high.


Green ko, Nigerian flag ni

can feel ya pains bro

Jabioro:
The wise lives long on fresh while

the foolish

lives on the leftover.

hhmm

Faul-mouthed modafoka

Nice piece!

Saraki ooooooo

Terrorist Buhari, loquacious ugly baboon Oshomole and the frog eyed, yellow-teeth and smelly mouth drug baron cum looter Tinubu will be having daily nightmares and each of them will be seeing Saraki beating them black and blue on every occasion

Ok