A SENATOR'S TRAVAILS IN THE MURKY WATERS OF THE POLITCS OF SIR KASHIM IBRAHIM HOUSE KADUNA




I have always know that it will turn this dirty in the Kaduna power play at some point. It is obvious that we are arriving that bus stop given the nude videos already going viral on the sexual exploits of the Senator representing the Central Senatorial Zone of Kaduna State.

It is not any surprising at all.that society is being treating to doses of what played out mostly in supposedly dark precincts in Kaduna, Abuja, Zaria and perhaps outside of our shores in the most reckless and irresponsible display of indecency which the nude pictures of a supposedly distinguished Senator clearly show.

Those who have watched the short videos surely would have held their breaths over how a Senator could descend so low as to have dropped his guard as the videos were recorded.

Surely if the Senator is not a complete buffoon, at the very least, he ought to have factored in the possibilities that such potentially damaging and indicting evidences could be a real possibility which could at some point in the future either turn up for him or against him.

This is exactly the kind of thing which could happen when you wake up one day and stumble into power. Power, particularly political power can be so intoxicating and so it has been with this individual.

The APC storm of 2015 brought this character aboard the Kaduna State's Maximum dictator's gravy train. Once onboard he constituted himself into a hitman of sort responsible for organizing the low-lives and dropouts mostly in Kaduna North all of whom he empowerment with enough Naira to procure hard drugs and dangerous cudgels with which the opposition was regularly harassed around town as happened at the NUJ Press Center and the NUT Guest House in Kaduna.

These were the stages of consolidating power by the Maximum leader and the gang around the seat of power in Sir Kashim Ibrahim House.

Nobody except those behind the nude videos and the Senator himself can say exactly when the recording was done and where.

With the videos now bring released piece mill, we now know why they were recorded in the first place The truth remains that if you live such a scandalous lifestyle, you must not contemplate ever dropping your guard as is often said in the game of boxing or your opponent will punch you out.

The Senator has been too used to being such a loose canon when it comes to women and the story goes that their preference in the gang lies in married women.

For a truth, the Senator is not alone in this, his partners are there and in there numbers. Another sordid part of the tail also says that when it suites the group, they also sleep with fellow men a practice so endemic in high places in these climes.

Someone or a group involved in the power game in Sir Kashim Ibrahim House must have realised that the Senator either before he became the Senator or after was positioning himself for a much higher position and the videos were recorded when our dear Senator was unsuspecting to serve as brakes to hold him back when the time was right.

It would appear that his enemies or opponents have gotten him exactly where they want him. The jewel in the crown is the governorship of Kaduna State after the Maximum keader has expired.

Let's together ponder on if this lascivious individual possesses the character to even aspire to the high office of a governor.

To understand the background to the current political chess game playing out in Sir Kashim Ibrahim House and elsewhere, it is imperetive that you understand who the contending forces engaged in the struggle for the soul and body of Sir Kashim Ibrahim House are.

There is what is simply referred to as the Maximum leader's triangle or political tripot with the Maximum leader as the pivot.

In the light of their childhood background the Senator has remained close to the Naximum leaderr's heart.

Before becoming a Senator he had build a group of ruthless boys who undertake most of his dirty jobs. These boys also have the additional responsibility of supplying the females deployed for the duo's sexual pleasures.

The second group is peopled by politicians mainly from the Zaria axis. Members include the ruthless Saeed, the deputy Majority Member in the House of Assembly, the Senator representing the Northern Senatorial Zone, the Majority leader in the House of Assembly and their likes.

This group are the political architects, artisans and foot soldiers. It is important to note that there is no love loss at least in the unfolding political drama between this group and the first except that the second groups feels it had been over used by the first.

The first group exerted a choking stranglehold on the Government of Kaduna State throughout the first term of 4 years 2015- 2019. Even as these 2 groups apear on the surface to be working together, there is an under current pursuing the same interests.

There is then the third group made up of the State's SSG, the formet Chief of Staff now a Tzarina at Nigeria Ports Authority as well as the current Chief of Staff. This group constitutes the engine room of the Maximum leader's kitchen cabinet and is responsible for most if the policies and activities of the government.

Let me attempt to establish a nexus between the third group and the other 2. The third group is not at ease with the first 2 and therefore sees them as destroyers who are determined to keep the Maximum dictators at arms length with the others The third group skso looks down on the second as empty headed politicians.

The Second group on the other hand sees the third as egg-headed who are opportunistic but yet without the capacity to assemble a government.

Interwoven between the 3 contending groups is another small group not quite visible but very effective having a failed banker and conman as the pivot.

This failed banker who is being sought by the United States government is so centrally placed that he has the ears of the Maximum leader whenever it matters most. This character thought imported to the State for purely personal reasons by the dictator occupies a position of such influence that no individual in Kaduna can afford to challenge him without getting hurt.

In trying perhaps to over exploit the childhood relationship between the Senator and the Maximum leader the seed of discord may have been planted which are beginning to geminate in the light of the nude videos now going viral.

The Maximum leader himself either advertently or otherwise opened the floodgates of this huge political dam in Kaduna when not long ago he was on television talking garrulousely as is usual of him on who his successor would eventually be.

He double spoke and in the process drawing a battle line between the favourite women in his government to include the deputy governor but because she comes from the wrong side is town, the Tzarina holding sway at NPA and another currently serving this nation abroad.

What I foresee is employing a strategy of contest by elimination. A clash or a potential clash has been programmed between the male and female potential future aspirants. What is about to play out in the politics of Kaduna State is not any different from what is commonly described as '' Poetic Justice '' . A band of political bandits conspired to steal power, they did actually succeed in stealing the power and as is to be expected, they are now fighting unto death as to a sharing fomula for the loot.

Given the nude videos of the Senator now viral it is left to conjecture how he and his group will respond. Except if the beleaguered Sen has a stronger counter to the video already in the public domain, I have my fears as to what the future potents for him.

We have been expecting that after the nude videos hit the creens of our phones,thatt the Senator will immediately attempt to repudiate its contents. We are yet to get Hus own side of the story.

In all of this forward and backward movement is the APC governorship ticket for 2023. The political picture is very much like the pictures of a sandy desert where what you see in the morning or afternoon would have disappeared by the evening.

I expect that the Senator has learnt from Tzun Zu who left valuable lessons for warfare in which he admonishes on the importance of knowing yourself as well as the enemy in which case you can go to battle without any fear. Where you know yourself without knowing the enemy, Tzun Zu predicts that for every one victory you will suffer a defeat.

Worse of all, where you konw neither yourself nor the enemy, you will be a complete fool to go into battle as you will be comprehensively defeated. In this circumstance therefore, I expect that he has in his pocket a more damaging response to the videos since I believe there exists no angles when it comes to the battle for survival.

We know just as everyone else knows that the Maximum keader may even be randier particularly with the spauses of his very close confidants. Is it not true that if you live in a glass house, you cannot afford to start throwing stones?.

It is not impossible to suggest that a compromise can be agreed at some point in the future but even with such a possibility, the damage has been done to the Senator and any reputation he may be clinging on to.

I sympathize with Sani for the simple reason he is not a strategist anywhere close to the great Roman General and Statesman Quintus Fabious Maximus Cuntatir 280-203 BC who during the Punic Wars successfully stood up against the famous Catharginian General Hannibal 247-183 BC who had a vastly supperio army.

Cuntator knew he could not afford to confront Hannibal's massive army in a direct engagement so he came up with the strategy of attacking the opponent's supply lines and engaging the enemy only on grounds favourable to him while employing what has come to be known in today's warefare as Guerrilla tactics.

The randy Senator has been cought up in open territory without any natural defenses and no where to hide. It will take only the grace of Almighty God for the present engagement to end up on terms favourable to the Senator.

Could this be true of the Way the Cookie Crumbles? The train has just left the station and heading to 2023, some of the passengers are already at daggars drawn and nobody can say who from the sables of the APC will arrive the 2023 station.

We are all watching. I wish the not so distinguished Senator of the Federal Republic well.