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Farage’s latest stunt, abruptly resigning as the MP for Clacton to trigger a theatrical summer by-election is a masterpiece in the fine art of political distraction.
This story is thoroughly compelling, provided one is willing to ignore how the Nigerian state machinery actually operates.
The grim reality of the Nigerian justice system was laid bare recently in a devastating report by Arise News. In 2007, a 14-year-old boy named Gospel Kinani disappeared from Ogoniland, Rivers State. For nearly two decades, his family searched for him in vain; the profound grief even claimed the lives of both his parents. Eighteen years later, Gospel was finally found not dead, but alive, broken, and languishing inside the Port Harcourt Correctional Center at 33 years old.
The referee blew the whistle, the linesman raised a flag, the electoral officer counted the votes, and even when people grumbled, they generally accepted that the game was bigger than any one player. Institutions existed so that personal desires did not become public policy
A whole Presidential Council with a fancy name is allegedly moving money for “foreign intervention promotion”? “Account? What account? We are also surprised o.”
