Throw the bums out

David Mark, who narrowly escaped the hammer himself, said at a legislative induction course for newly-elected members and senators that the high turnover of legislators will slow down legislation, and that this will also negatively affect the National Assembly. I see. Let me ask David Mark since he has been presiding over the Senate for eight years: which work did all of you do in these years that was worth the N150 billion a year times eight years that we spent on your upkeep and on your frivolous claims?
Tell me; apart from collecting fat salaries, apart from collecting tens of millions of naira per quarter each under dubious claims and apart from cornering monies allegedly budgeted for constituency projects what did you guys do that improved the lot of Nigerians? At every material time most of you were junketing around the world attending one dubious meeting or another; have we seen the positive effect of any of that in our lives? All the so-called oversight visits that the MPs and senators were making everyday to ministries and agencies, did it produce any good results? Was it not just to facilitate collaborative looting between the MPs and the civil servants?
So the only thing we the voters can do is to throw out as many of you as possible at the slightest opportunity. That was why we threw out an average 75 senators and more than 200 MPs at every election cycle since 1999. So much so that right now, Mark is the only senator who has been there since 1999 while Mr. Nicholas Mutu from Delta State is the only MP who has been there since 1999.
I am even wondering why Mark himself is still in the Senate. The people of Benue State did a clean sweep of the decks during this election and threw away most of his party colleagues, including Governor Suswam and his chosen governorship candidate. You David Mark, is it because the people of Benue forgot to throw you out that you are berating us for throwing out most of your colleagues? Don’t worry. Your turn will come in 2019. Then you can go and complain properly.

The Olanusi treatment for Fayose

When Ondo State’s PDP governor Olusegun Mimiko connived with members of his state assembly on Monday and orchestrated the impeachment of his deputy Alhaji Ali Olanusi, did he think he was doing a favour to his friend in Ekiti, Governor Ayo Fayose?
I know that PDP leaders are still staggering and reeling from their election defeat but don’t they have any idea of overall strategy left in them? When they are trying very hard to prevent Fayose’s impeachment in Ekiti for what they see as mere political offences, why did they allow Mimiko to impeach Olanusi essentially for committing the same political offence? They believe APC members are after Fayose only because of political differences; Mimiko was also after Olanusi because he defected from PDP to APC.
Anyway, the PDP chiefs think they hold the aces now because the Federal Government-controlled Nigeria Police protected the Ondo Assembly while it impeached Olanusi but prevented the Ekiti Assembly from sitting so it will not impeach Fayose. How short-sighted! What happens after May 29 when the tables turn? Even a PDP-dominated Ekiti State Assembly may not spare Fayose if the APC really comes for him. After all, when he was first impeached in 2006 was it not a PDP-dominated assembly that did that?
Fayose, wait for the Olanusi treatment.