The Betray of Political Brotherhood

     The Betray of Political Brotherhood

                      (a short story)

                  By Lene Ododomu

Counting the states of Anagada, it is counted accurately that Anagada has only 25 states and 15 f the states are controlled by the Anagada Peoples Congress Party (APCP), while the remaining 10 states are controlled by the Anagada Peoples Party (APP) and majority are from the South and East.

The Anagada Peoples Party (APP) ruled the country for about 16 years before the Anagada Peoples Congress Party (APCP) took over the federal. The APCP took over the federal when the people of Anagada decided to taste the aroma of a new government. They struggled with all their sweat for this new government to come into power by all means. So during the campaigns, they joined the APCP by singing "Change the government" and then heavily chanting "Sai baba Gadu".

The incumbent president, Baba Gadu who was the presidential candidate of the APCP and a retired chairman of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) was believed by the people of Anagada to fight corruption in the country. He is a Northerner but the people of the South, East and the West did not care because they believed from the inception that he will change the narrative of the country, especially corruption with that of his experience of being a corruption fighting agency. But the result after voting him into power was pit of hell because his administration became worse than the previous one.

The people of Anagada suffered for good eight years. Everything in the country became things fall apart and everything is no longer at ease because issues like hunger, ritual killing, Boko-haram terrorism, kidnapping, unknown gun men attacks, etc are what the people starting seeing everyday.

After having all these challenges, the people of Anagada decided to look for alternative inorder to save the lives of everyone. They created this problem by themselves and they knew it because is their choices that created the problem. They realized their regrettable mistakes in the past general election that made them to decide by removing power from the APP. So they decided by trying to remove the  power from the incumbent government in the presidency during the last general election  but the APCP was already overpowered and the election was rigged for their favour. But they still want to try by voting for another party that will save them from their problems. 

The Southern governor's of APP had a meeting for zoning by sifting the sit of the presidency to the South and agreement was made by all of them by supporting governor Amadi in the presidential primaries.

On the day of the party's primaries, four of the Southern governors who agreed on zoning by supporting governor Amadi, the outgoing governor of Inema state denied him by given their support to Alhaji Basuru who is from the North, though four of them still abid to the agreement.

Governor Amadi became so furious and angered after failing in the presidential primaries and this was not just outside of him but it is something that touched his marrow. But a rumour later walks across the sky and also falls like a rain that Alhaji Basuru picked governor Amadi, but he later debunked the news when he was interviewed by Ànagada National Television (ANT). But thereafter, governor Amadi political brother from the South was officially picked by Alhaji Basuru as his running mate.

Governor Amadi made himself neutral and later some prominent and  influencial members of the  APP joined him and formed a group called "South South Right Movement" and then removed theirselfs completely from the campaign organization of Alhaji Basuru. The members of this group include Senator Obi from the Eastern zone, Chief Tunde  and governor Infeanyi from the Western zone and Dr. Odia, Senator Perelatei and Dr. Ofie from the Southern zone. These are the structures of the party who are expected to lead the party into its victory in the forthcoming general election but anger has taken them away.

Having prepared for campaigns, the peace committee of the party organized a negotiation committee and sent to negotiate with governor Amadi's camp. They had a meeting but the camp gave a condition to the negotiation committee that the chairman of the presidential campaign, Senator Aminu who is from the North and the Director General of the Campaign council, governor Jamiu who is also from the North should resign or quit their appointments before they will agree to join the campaign movement with the party's presidential candidate. But the meeting ended up  by not resoluting  the issue separated the Amad's camp.

The campaign kick starts and the people of Anagada expected to see governor Amadi's camp as part of the campaign team of Alhaji Basuru but none joined. Then it now came to the notice of the people that the grievance of governor Amadi's camp is caused by their South South political brothers who betrayed their brotherhood by failing to live by their agreement of sifting the sit of the presidency to the South. So it is observed that this their decision of exonerating from Alhaji Basuru's campaign team is to cut down his wings and make him structureless in the election.

The dangerous part of this their action is that they remained in the part claiming that they are among the people who suffered with the party from cradle, so no one has the right to suspend any of them. That they will remain in the party and decide to support the candidate of their choice and it must not be from their party, that is if negotiation committee fail to reach agreement with them.

However, on the commissioning day of Ebigbene flyover bridge and in governor Amadi's speech, he said that a Northerner can never betray his political brother because it is forbidden traditionally. He then further said that Senator Mohammed who was a presidential aspirant of APP stepped down for his  brother, Alhaji Basuru and directed all his supporters to give their support to him which he believes that boasted the his victory in the party's primaries.  But his brother from the South, East and West who agreed to support him  betrayed him and gave their own support to boast the votes of a foreigner.

The people of Anagada were not comfortable with the plight of the APP. Some of them will asked: "Will governor Amadi's camp allow their party to fail in the forthcoming general election? Is it not their party? Must they truely be happy if the party they sacrificed to build for the past 20-30 years collapsed? But if this truely happened, then they should not claim that they suffered with the party from the cradle. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. So let their love for the party should drive failure out in the forthcoming presidential election. It is their party as they claim. So why not appease that anger of theirs for the sake of the party. They are already been betrayed and it is not the fault of the party. Therefore, they should forgive and forget as they are even christians. Also, they should know that the peace and tranquility of the people is at stake". But governor Amadi's camp responded by saying that they are in a pain of being betrayed by their South South political brothers. So the people of Anagada should not blame them for their actions because they are fighting for South South right which is equity.