TALE OF A POLITICAL DESPERADO

Typical of the average Nigerian politician, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, a former Minister of State for Defence, had literally gone on a denial trip when he was seen romancing with the camp of the All Progressives Congress, APC, a party he recently had abused and vilified. He had waxed philosophical in some interviews he granted some newspapers, while trying to defend his new relationship with the same people he once tagged “enemies of progress.”

While in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, he had openly denied any good in the emerging opposition APC. Indeed its leadership and faithful had become the anvil of his vitriolic attacks.

So, the initial shock expressed by political watchers in the land was not misplaced.

However, recent events have confirmed that the Lagos State-born senator had a plan up his sleeves. He resolved to swallow his pride and go back to his odious vomit for personal reasons: to gain political relevance and prevent his career from total collapse.

Just two years after the era of his former boss, former President Goodluck Jonathan, the former High Commissioner to Ghana is back and he is literally on his bended knees to get accepted back into the fold he once rebuked.

Spyglass gathered that Obanikoro is romancing the APC stalwart so as to replace Senator Oluremi Tinubu who might not seek re-election to the Upper Chamber in 2019. But a source revealed that it would be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than the former Senator to succeed Senator Tinubu. The reason, he stated, has to do with trust issues.

“His return to the Asiwaju’s camp is expected. Koro, as he is fondly called, is a desperate politician who would do anything to rescue his career from crashing, hence his new romance with the former governor and the APC stalwart. But be that as it may, he might be left in the cold for a long time to come as many have warned Tinubu to beware of him, “our source stated.

Obanikoro had represented the Lagos Central in 2003 before he left Alliance for Democracy in annoyance to pitch his tent with the then Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.