Tortoise: The fabled father-in-law
By Victor Ecoma Politics and treacherous intrigues are no strange bedfellows; they are rather, Siamese twin which no neurosurgeon can successfully separate. Politics is like Mathematics; nothing is cast in stone, except, maybe, personal interests which can be swayed in opposite directions when the need arises. As in Mathematics, as in Politics, formulae change and interests realign. Thus, it is quite easy to see two people who would not break bread today but gleefully share a plate tomorrow, especially in a clime burdened by political immaturity owing to the relegation or total lack of political idealism Рor even the existence of mediocre idealism. It is almost clich̩, that in politics, interests are more enduring than friendships. Political greenhorns know this, how much more those who have climbed the enviable pedestal of the veterans Рor seemingly so. The happenings at the National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party did not fall short of all that is characterist...