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Benue APC: The bitter edge of godfatherism
Politics tamfitronics One in all the supreme problems of partisan politics in Nigeria is the recurrence of vitality mongering, compelled godfatherism and the poverty of restraints wielded by some so-known as occasion strongmen. The tendency for these strongmen to impose candidates, trample as soon as in a whereas structures and contain themselves into establishments has been the bane of occasion supremacy. From the days of Lamidi Adedibu, the strongman of Ibadan politics, to the failed strive by Adams Oshiomhole to play god over Edo politics, so-known as occasion solid men own viewed blended fortunes. Nevertheless, this has now not stopped other would-be stalwarts from touring this thorny route. The swift fallout between the instant-previous governor Nyesome Wike (now minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT) and his political godson, Governor Simi Fubera, of Rivers dispute,...