The presence of the operatives of the anti-graft agency had elicited questions and an uncertain atmosphere at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja.
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“When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants”
– Emmanuel Macron, the President of France.
Last Thursday, February 25, 2021, I was one of the two panelists on Politics Nationwide, a network programme of Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria. Mrs. Chinwe Nnorom, a director in the bureaucracy of the Peoples Democratic Party, and I were the two guests on the show. The topic of discussion was, “Regulating Defections from Political Parties”, anchored by Joy Makka. The programme moderator revealed that Nigeria has had a history of defection of party members from one political party to another right from the colonial era. In 1951, the first celebrated cross-carpeting episode occurred in Nigeria; which consequently robbed the leader of the National Convention of Nigerians and Cameroons, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, the chance to lead the government’s business of Western Nigeria. This mea