Fola Ojo
For eight years, he loomed large as governor over a state called Plateau. And for that long, he plateaued above the law, taking domineering charge over unaudited security funds and ecological earmarks running into billions of naira. And much of it streamed down the sewer of corruption into his many private pockets. He knew the gravity of what he did. But,for him, so, what? After all, he was an elite member of the then-ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party.
Power later changed hands. Like many of his crooked friends and contemporaries-in-corruption who are still roaming free; he sought a getaway from the retributory hands of the law. He switched political alliance and found honey in the new ruling party, the All Progressives Congress. That’s what they all do to escape justice. Still, his people didn’t care; they elected him a senator. But who can take cover from Karma…
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