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So Saraki is a Robber?

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Hmmmm, so Saraki is a robber? I am just looking o. He has been everything since he emerged the Senate President. I just pity the man. Everything has been thrown at him from drug dealer to money launderer and now an Offa robbery kingpin. You know at times like these you can only laugh helplessly. I have met the man only once in his office and he didn’t look like a robbery kingpin to me. In fact, his skin was so smooth that I was almost tempted to ask the Baba what cream he uses. You see, the issue here is not only these Boy Scout games going on leading towards 2019. The government had better come to a quick realisatio­n that things are no longer at ease and the centre can no longer hold. As my late daddy Chinua Achebe once said, ‘Mere anarchy is being loosed upon the land.’ I think the Federal Government should wake up from its deep slumber and begin to engage the opposition constructi­vely issue by issue and no longer allow its people to continue to push it into these kinds of entrapment­s; otherwise, some of us will begin to sense a white horse at play. The issue here is respect to the constituti­on, due process and the institutio­ns that have been put to safeguard our democracy. If we continue to bastardise them on the altar of impunity against the persons who hold these positions, then we are beginning to stare at a failed state. Me, I cannot live in a failed state and there is nothing the Canadians will do to stop me, I will migrate there and become the Duke of Toronto. Dealing with Saraki as it is beginning to look will not augur well for us as a nation except we deal with him according to the laid down principles as enshrined in our constituti­on. Labelling him a bank robber or a drug lord from Colombia will only serve to push people like me who believe in due process towards his camp. My lord – whichever of my lords whether it is the IGP or the President, no be like this them

dey do am. Let’s be more strategic. Meanwhile Oloye, when is the next operation, do you need a get-away driver? Laugh wan kill me.

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