No to desperate politicians
•Pensioners of defunct Nigeria Airways reviving a collapsed colleague during a protest in Lagos over unpaid benefits. By Ekanpou Enewaridideke DESPERATION in politics pursued single-mindedly with a chronically pathological forgetfulness of Isaac Newton’s third law of motion that "for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction", and Maria Daniels’ thesis that "life has its ups and downs, and problems arise when we want life to be our way when we want it to meet all of our expectations" — a characterisation of desperate politicians – is a thunderstorm, whirlwind, whirlpool, rainstorm, hurricane, etc, whose end is indescribably destructive but strangely hailed in a cavalier language as the peak of political strategising and wisdom by those they call desperate politicians in any political engagement. A sole proprietorship and kingship of the political space these desperate politicians appear to have claimed in a satanic move to skunk and silence the democra...