There’s a model for managing rebels in government that the American political drama, “Designated Survivor”, teaches so well.
Ganduje was in the news again last week for sacking his special adviser on media, Salihu Tanko Yakasai, the latest rebel in his cabinet. One way to explain the sacking of the media aide is to assume that there’s probably no Nigerian governor with as many independent-minded personal aides as the governor.It would also appear that for every rebel that has gone publicly against the grain of his government in recent times, there are probably two or three more still in the closet.
Now, on Buhari’s watch, governors of the North East are so exasperated about the security situation that one of them, Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State, is openly canvassing the recruitment of mercenaries, something Jonathan could only do in secret. And I think it’s ridiculous that Yakasai was invited and detained by the Kano branch of the State Security Service for calling out the president. I said worse in a recent column in which I accused the president of sleeping on the wheels. Free speech may be inconvenient, but it’s not a crime.
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