By Sanco Ese
Whether the APC wishes me well or not, I shall live long and prosper. What they think about me is neither here nor there and I lose no sleep over it. It is only what God thinks about me that matters and they are not God. They do not like me and I do not like them and that is fine by me. We do not need to like each other and all we need to do is to meet in the field come 2027
What is going on in the APC today is very similar to the lion’s dance. We have, on the one hand, the old lion and his loyalists, who delegated authority and powers to his favoured son's and who consider himself as the king of the Jungle since the advent of our nascent democracy and who now wishes to re-assert his authority. In his infinite mercy and wisdom the old lion has decided that the young one is no longer fit to carry out the assignment that he was given a few years back and it is time for him to enthrone another.
Unfortunately for the old lion, the young one that he put in power years ago amd who disappointed him and cause him so much pain has other plans and he and his loyalists have decided that they will not only refuse to go but that they they will also defy and kill the old lion and effectively become the new king. No longer satisfied with delegated authority, the young lion has decided to take over the whole pride for himself and to establish a new order. He is young, he is strong, he has tasted power and he believes that his time has come to take the kingdom for himself and enjoy the pride.
This is where we are today. One thing is very clear- at the end of all this either the old lion will prevail, will live and will continue to rule or the new lion will do so. It is either one or the other. They cannot BOTH live and they cannot BOTH rule. The law of the jungle is simple and clear- there can only be one king. For the new lion to lead the pride the old lion has to die. And for the purposes of clarity here I speak of political death and not physical death. The loyalists of both the old and the new lion will continue to slug it out for the next few weeks , months and years until one prevails and the other is utterly destroyed.
The problem is that when blind men fight with the sort of rage and desperation that we are witnessing currently in Delta APC, they are totally oblivious to the consequences and implications of their actions on all those around them.
I am confident that come 2027, the struggle for power within the APC family in Delta State and between the forces of the old lion and the new one will eventually consumme them and throw them all into the dustbin of political history
Sheriff till 2031
