I tried to keep pace with the strategy and stratagem of political parties since the days of SUBMISSION of names of candidates. While the two major parties have their hands full, the others are struggling hard to be heard, even if in staccato form.
My main concern presently is as regards the two major parties. The PDP seems to have given up on trying to show that it has changed. So it has adopted the strategy of filibuster. All its efforts are tilted towards demarketing the APC, even if with tales that were non-starters in their infancy such as “Buhari is dead”, “Jubril has replaced Buhari as president and he is from Sudan”, and some other petty matters. May I ask, WHAT if these tales were true, will it be sufficient to bring upon us the PDP nightmare?
For the APC, it is overwhelmed by the potency of falsehood. So it is constantly reacting to one piece of information, twisted in logic and slanted in facts, sometimes deliberately put in the public space by its own members who have been disadvantaged in the exposure that victory brings and assures. It is what appears to be the variegated reception of basic electoral outcomes by the likes of Okorocha, Amosun and others.
TO be sure there is one thing that the presidency of Buhari has achieved, even when the ruling Party seems to realize it, that things can be done differently, with less. While the vice-president has now made marketplaces his new abode because he is more agile, the President has changed the lifestyle of the presidency to that of deliberate forbearance. Such will win new friends and turn enemies of old friends (Galadima). The period we are IN is the levelling period. While Atiku Abubakar thinks he CANNOT be searched at the airport, there are now so many pictures of serving governors and ministers who are routinely searched at our airports since this administration.
This is worth celebrating, apart from the deliberate effort by the APC to change the narrative regarding the place of discipline in a party.
