Chasing two mice!

While growing up, we heard the story of a hunter who saw two mice. Being a good hunter, he stalked them till he was at a vantage point of killing both-so he thought. Alas! Both mice took off in two opposite directions. He ran after one for a short distance and seeing he wasn't going to get it, turned around in the other direction after the other mouse. Sadly, the other mouse was way out of his reach. So gallantly, he lost both, despite his expertise as a hunter.

Some months back, a group of leaders in the polity of Nigeria locked horns fiercely. There were accusations and counter accusations.  At the forefront were nine individuals always in the news and in the center of the raging of the political bulls of the leading party. The crux of the matter remains to be seen outside of seeking relevance and dominance - even at almost no vision.

Seven of the renegade (as they are tagged) leaders are sitting governors. Six of these are in their second and last terms in office. These six, have in a sense nothing to loose. Most in their shoes, and in the past, are now senators, having used their political muscles as outgoing governors to secure a seat at the senate.

The last of these renegade governors, who happens to be my state's governor, is in his second year of what is his first term. 

One would expect that governors, as leaders, at least should have a vision they run with, without which they would run aimlessly and achieve nothing. Caught between the devil and the deep blue sea, this governor has been steered by a "sinking mentor" he has always run with, right from the platform of the PDP that he contested and won the governorship elections under, to cross carpet to APC, a party of differing ideology.

Comparing with other nations, politicians are loyal to their party ideologies. We see people in the same party for half a century years and their children and children's children after them towing the same line of trust and loyalty. This is not so in Nigeria.

The question is, would this governor be given the governorship ticket in the new party he is in bed with, seeing they have their own loyalists and old members, or would he, if not given the ticket under APC return to his old divorced wife (PDP) and still be given the ticket for the second term after the betrayal?

This governors' story is like that of the hunter chasing two mice. The hunter failed.  

The governor should be driven with the need to serve the people, not the vision of a "sinking mentor", else he like the hunter will fail.

Mansa Musa has spoken!