Gbemisola Saraki
With less than five months to the 2011 poll, Emmanuel Addeh once more examines the politics of Kwara State and writes that the influence of the godfather of the state politics, Dr. Olusola Saraki, cannot be dismissed with a wave of the hand
The politics of Kwara State is said to be peculiar in so many respects. From the surreal to the plainly ludicrous; from the improbable to the unthinkable and from the sometimes noble to the uninspiring, it is argued that it takes a mastermind to understand the dynamics of the state‘s political landscape.
It sometimes defies logic, rubbishes political scientists and their grandiose theories and tasks the mind of the sane and rational. Indeed, the more things change, as they say, the more they remain the same.
Analysts and commentators who have been close to the goings-on in the state, politically speaking, since its creation, posit that the current political situation is not different from the previous ones: someone endorses/anoints; there is a feeble resistance here and there; elections are held; the anointed wins, irrespective of what anyone thinks or feels and then life goes on.
The dust raised by the endorsement of Senator Gbemisola Saraki, by her father, Dr. Olusola Saraki, usually regarded as the strongman of politics in the state, is still far from settling as various groups ranging from youth organisations to religious groups are battling to have the last word while they mouth their support for or against the development.
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