Defections, decamping and cross carpeting have become the order of the day in Nigerian politics. Irrespective of the word they use to describe their reasons, one thing remains the same, political prostitution is a politician’s second nature. Nigerian politicians especially, have perfected the art of hopping from one party to the other that Nigerian politics has become a glorified game of jump rope.

This charade all boils down to the fact that neither the Nigerian politicians nor the political parties have values and ideologies they stand for. As the saying should go: if you stand for nothing, you will jump at everything that comes your way. This is why the average Nigerian politician has been a member of at least two parties and the political parties which they have journeyed through have nothing, except the symbols of rain-shields, sweeping tools and poultry animals, to set them apart from each other... https://olatorera.com/the-art-of-political-prostitution-in-nigeria/