What Becomes Of Fayose, Ambode, Wike With Their State Ministers?

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For those who are so engrossed in the tussle for absolute power, any slightest clinch on power intoxicates them. They remember they were once hurt or hounded. Then a fight is started up. When such begins, none of the agitators remembers whether they once had affiliation with those now being fight. They go extra miles to want to show off the strength they wield. They embark on revenge. Such was the case of the governors of Ekiti, Lagos and Rivers states.

It is not as if governors Ayo Fayose, Akinwunmi Ambode and Nyesom Wike are the only ones who threw or are still throwing jibes at their predecessors especially on pecuniary issues, but theirs is essentially queer. Unlike the case of the Benue state governor, Samuel Ortom, and his predecessor, Gabriel Suswam, the trio had the erstwhile bosses of their states nominated as ministers into the federal government cabinet in the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.

The three musketeers fired unbridled shots at the later to become ministers. It baffled many why every dissuasive effort was injected into deterring the nominator from going on with the nominees’ choices.

Governor Fayose and the fight against Fayemi

As soon as Governor Fayose won the governorship election in 2014, the first thing he embarked on was to attack the former governor of Ekiti state, Kayode Fayemi. The governor kept accusing Fayemi of wasteful spending and plunging the state into debt. He went on slamming Fayemi over finances of the state and unpaid workers’ salaries. At various times, Fayose did not stop increasing the state debt figures. All was perhaps to rubbish the name of his predecessor.

When Fayemi became elected, it was very obvious how the Ekiti state boss kicked. He had requested for the right to nominate someone for the ministerial position. His demand was thrown into the trash. That may have resulted in the feud he continually has with the presidency.

With attention to his objection, Fayose did not fail to make it known to the public how pained he was following Fayemi’s nomination. The governor tried his best possible to get the president’s attention, but no way.

Alas, all efforts to malign the former governor and bring his legacies to zero proved abortive. Fayose comically made an abrupt u-turn in his stance against Ekiti nominee. He started drumming support for his state man. What really happened? Why did he change all of a sudden? He seems to be a very smart politician and a man of the grassroots. He may have calculated that his predecessor would eventually become a minister no matter how hard he tried to stop him. He may have envisaged that in the end the, if the fight continued, the state may end up in chaos.

Ambode’s impulsive fight against Fashola

Pained by the near dismissal-turned resignation, the former accountant general of Lagos state, Akinwunmi Ambode, swung into action as soon as he was sworn in as the newly elected governor of the state. He dissolved parastatals which led to firing Olayinka Fashola, the former governor’s sibling. Could that have been a payback?

In retrospect, although the reason for the frosty relationship was fuzzy, but as the-then employee, it was said that Ambode had had some issues with Babatunde Fashola, his boss, over matters not unconnected to financial mismanagement. Information filtered in that Fashola who was the-then governor had to dismiss Ambode which was later converted to a voluntary resignation with the aim of not denting the latter’s political ambition.

While all that happened, Ambode was said to have always carried the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, along. His intention was to sit on the governorship seat. Fashola promptly repudiated what he called “insinuations” of alleged sack of Ambode.

Could that have been a campaign strategy against the state’s People’s Democratic Party? The feud was apparent during the APC governorship primary election in Lagos last year. Fashola did not give his support to Ambode. Why? Was it that he envisaged that Ambode may not be competent? Was it that he had done any negatives while in the civil service? Fashola never gave any reason for his disapproval of Ambode as a choice for Lagos governorship seat. No doubt, their squabble eventually manifested in the revenge Ambode cast forth by dismissing Fashola’s sister and over seventy others.

As if that was not enough, some forces believed to have been pushed by the Lagos governor came up with a N78 billion website scandal. The report was later brought down from the website where it was initially published by an analytical firm, BudgIT. The reason as to why it was brought down was never spoken about. Were there reports in it that embarrassed either of Fashola and Tinubu? This is a question that begs for an answer.

As luck may have it, Fashola got nominated to be minister. But his luck fell short as Tinubu for no justifiable reason was said to have secretly gone against his choice or he felt at least he should have been consulted.

The fight between two longtime friends-turned-foes

In the political history of Nigeria, the imbroglio between the former governor of River state, Rotimi Amaechi, and his successor is considered the most heated. Why this is more interesting is on the basis of the fact that the current governor and his predecessor swapped seat.

When Amaechi was the governor of the state, Nyesom Wike somewhat made the Rivers state ungovernable for him in collaboration with the former First Lady. When he became declared as the winner of the April 11 election, just like Governor Ambode, his first goal was to hunt his predecessor down. Why was that? It was simply because Amaechi did not support the immediate past president in the March 28 presidential election.

Wike too, just like Fayose and Ambode, was against a former governor. The similarity between the Rivers boss and his Lagos counterpart are that they both were against their former bosses and intoxicated by the fact that they are governors.

As it stands, the three rejected stones have become the federal government rocks. If only the governors had taken seriously the first rule of 48 laws of power by Robert Greene, we will not be talking about the ‘what goes around comes around’ Kamar law. Anyway, for Wike, it is no longer certain whether he will still own the seat after either the appeal or the ordered rerun election.

Nevertheless, the fight against Fayemi and Amaechi was understandable owing to the fact that they are in an opposition party. But for Ambode who happens to be in the same ruling party both at the federal and state levels, it was only out of selfishness and desperation to avenge a seeming wrong done to him.

Against the act of war

If I may borrow the words of Mahatma Gandhi, I would say an eye for an eye will only make the whole world go blind. Revenge is the sweetest morsel in the mouth that was cooked in hell. For me, it will only end up dividing attention from the development of a state.

Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on, Criss Jami a 28 year old American poet and existentialist philosopher once said. Thus, it is hopeful that the likes of Fayemi and Fashola who methinks are gentlemen may have at this point forgone the fight with their successors. But the ever ready Amaechi who said he was born to test his right may not easily let Wike go. The question for the ex-governor of the oil rich state is whether he will make Rivers state ungovernable now that he is a minister just like Wike did when he too was a minister? Who knows? Fashola and Fayemi may even disappoint my notion about them as they may take up more revenge as we may not know for sure.

Against Muhammad Ali’s saying that if you lose a big fight it will worry you all of your life… it will plague you until you get your revenge; I believe that the best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. Let there be reconciliation and not retaliation so that the various states can move forward.

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