I’ll up-vote your last paragraph – bravo

All the carpet-crossing you see now is a ruse. BAT and his camp want to give the impression that APC is popular and acceptable. Reality disputes that notion in Edo, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Enugu and every other states to which they intend to extend state capture ahead of 2027. The party is weaker and less acceptable today than it was in 2023 – as unpopular as it was then. Go and ask average voters on the street, the real owners of the nation, and you will see that APC still has reason to be afraid, very afraid of any free and fair national election.

But that electoral handicap will matter in 2027 as much as it did in 2019, meaning that BAT will, regardless, be announced the winner again and, sadly, no glove will be laid on him and on his gang. 2023 was possible only because Nigerians allowed the heist of 2019 to stand. These defections are happening because the defectors know that only APC has what it takes to rig effectively with impunity. In the present Nigeria, you will be rewarded more for pulling a BAT than for pulling a PO.

Give me one positive reason a sitting opposition Gov should decamp to APC now. Normally, parties attract members of the opposition when it is popular, doing well and impressing the heck out of the public The admiration in this case is for the opportunity of the defectors to escape likely EFCC scrutiny ala Akpabio and Okowa, and also for the near certainty of being rigged back into office. Take Mba. Give him credit, though, for doing better than the criminal in Owerri, but he knows that he did not win fairly in 2023, and that the same fate likely awaits him next time around. Only APC can guarantee him victory even if he is rejected again at the polls. The only way Fubara gets a second term in Rivers will be to run on APC ticket.

BAT and APC are setting the stage to justify the manipulation that INEC will do for him, which the judiciary will legitimize again, unfortunately. They have effectively appropriated the roles of the prosecutor, the jury and the judge.

It is true that PDP does not have a pass mark, but the further damage that APC is doing to the already challenged 4th Republic is appalling. Unless BAT wants to use the state capture to rejig the polity by way of surgical restructuring – devolution of power and local autonomy in a second term – it will be difficult for the nation to survive this assault.

Please where is the indefatigable John West? We need him on the backpage!!!

Perfect! I think they decided to carry out that impunity because they have thrown everything at us since 1966 & we accepted it. They didn't believe we can make them regret it… It is not "we"

I'm humbled by your remarks! Just know it that no one can do it better than the man you described as 'indefatigable'. He's the master maeostro! My gratitude, though!

Honestly,
Your diction, logic and delivery remind me of nobody but the indefatigable Jon West!!! You sound soooooo "Jon Westy"

It is not the pardon per se, nwanne.

We? That is a stretch. Not even pro-BAT Wike agrees with your "we." I did not include Rufai among the insiders who dispute the 2023 results as he would be accused of doing so because of his current opposition status.

You can fault us for our docility; for allowing the imposition and for adjusting to all manner of executive lawlessness, but surely not for electing him.

No one but hypocrites are asking questions! Of course, the Nostradamus of our time, Shaka Momodu, answered all the questions in his weekly instalments entitled THE REPUBLIC on these Backpages, more so in his penultimate articles before the 2023 Presidential Elections. Where is Shaka Momodu by the way??

In any case, products of UniJankara are not disappointed one bit by the unfolding events and not more so the mass defection to the ruling party. Here on these Backpages, we warned of the dangers of 'anointing' a man with Hitlerite disposition president but our POVs were severally flagged down as SPAM. Any one can read up the history of Hitler but let it be known that he started as a Party Leader and later metamorphosed into the Behemoth that troubled the entire Europe and the world.

Of course, products of UniJankara are not given to Crocodile Tears and latter-day buyer's remorse of "justice cynically trumped by cheap politics". Or the Pharisaic detour that recent pardons "negatively emblematise our country". And these are the people that accuse us of demarketing the country? Now you know those hitting the ground when the snake had gone far into the bush? Pharisees!

The truth is that we're in for it. Wait until the Emperor captures a Second Tenure what with One Party State loading with frictionless acceleration. But give it to a man who knows there must be Honour Among Thieves by making sure that more than 30% out of the 174 granted amnesty were those held for drug related offences. That is the esprit de corps! Bravo Al-Capone!!