Originally published on the legalnaija blog on September 30, 2014.
I attended a professional event about three weeks ago and during lunch we were all encouraged to network and get to know one another, most people in the room were lawyers anyway and we were all able to get along fine. Until I ran into a politician who is a PDP card carrying member, not that I belong to any political party neither do I favour one over the other even though we were having lunch in an APC governed State because I believe all Nigerian political parties lack ideology and their members are just in whichever party that best serves their private gains at the moment, a look at how quick they cross from one platform to the other is proof of same.
I attended a professional event about three weeks ago and during lunch we were all encouraged to network and get to know one another, most people in the room were lawyers anyway and we were all able to get along fine. Until I ran into a politician who is a PDP card carrying member, not that I belong to any political party neither do I favour one over the other even though we were having lunch in an APC governed State because I believe all Nigerian political parties lack ideology and their members are just in whichever party that best serves their private gains at the moment, a look at how quick they cross from one platform to the other is proof of same.
Coincidentally,
earlier in our discussions that day, we treated a scenario where one of the
parties was labelled a PDP fixer and Mr. PDP was all too glad to tell me how
APC was the party of fixers and PDP will
save Lagos State from BRF whom he believed was a failure. Now, having lived in
Nigeria and witnessed a PDP led national government I was not going to agree
with him. Moreover, the blind can see and the deaf can hear about the successes
of BRF in Lagos so I was quick to ask my new acquaintance why he felt so
strongly.