I don’t know why a few state governors are running around, dragging President Muhammadu Buhari by the hem of his agbada to save them from the misery of inconclusive election in their states. Their conduct reminds me of the days when lazy neighbourhood kids used to run home to Big Daddy to save them from the street bully.
The only difference is that these governors created their own bullies for four years and entrapped themselves in their own catastrophic failures. Big Daddy won’t save them now: they have to fight for their own lives.
Take the Bauchi State governor, Mohammed Abubakar, for example. If any prominent politician in the state was expected to have a reelection problem, it was supposed to be Speaker Yakubu Dogara.
With the elections less than six months away, Dogara cast his lot with Senate President Bukola Saraki and switched from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), effectively tipping the leadership of the 8th…
