In politics, anything can happen. Or who would have imagined that the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, regarded as political warlord and kingmaker in his state, Kwara would lose an election to return to the senate? Or Oyo State governor, Abiola Ajimobi who could not move his people to vote for him to go to the senate. Such were the surprises that trailed the last Presidential and National Assembly elections. Today’s Governorship and State House of Assembly elections nation wide are also expected to be full of surprises. There are some governors who are seeking a re-election for second term but appear to have been abandoned in the desert as the powers and principalities that brought them to power have deserted them. Can they therefore survive the battle on their own or become casualties?
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