On The Senate Presidency: Spoils Of War Are For Soldiers Of War

By Mohammed Adamu

Maybe the best way you can understand the arrant ‘rashin kunya’ of this South Eastern geopolitical demand for the Senate Presidency, is if it is graphically put in the form of an elementary electoral quadratic equation.

And we’ll use only Orji Uzor Kalu’s senatorial election as the guinea pig of the calculus or equation here: in the whole of Abia State, (and that’s talking about hundreds of thousands of votes), Tinubu got only some measly less than 10,000 votes in the whole of the State.

But in just his own Senatorial district alone, (which, by the way, is only a third of the entire State), Orji Uzor Kalu got over 45,000 votes. And you’d expect that under normal partisan circumstances, most of these 45,000 should also have voted for Tinubu. Or at least the APC.

Or at the very least you probably would’ve been a little consoled if about 10,000 of this 45,000, had voted for Tinubu. But no; the 10,000 votes that Tinubu got came frome the entire state. Meaning that he probably got only Kalu’s vote in Kalu’s district.

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But far more so you would probably have also thought, that if Kalu’s people did not vote Tinubu or APC in deference to normal partisan circumstances, at the very very least they should’ve done so because they would want their son to be Senate President. Abi?

But no! These 45,000 Abians, from Kalu’s Senatorial district, must’ve hated Tinubu and the APC so much that they thumb printed for their son, Kalu, under APC, and then they moved some ten letters of the alphabet down the ballot paper to locate another of their sons, Pit’Obi, and they thumb printed for him also.

Now just picture this: that same 45,000 or maybe even all those who voted in the entire district; or, hold it, maybe even ALL those who voted in the entire State (where, remember Tinubu only got 10,000 out of hundreds of thousands of votes), now want Tinubu or the APC to make their son, Kalu, Senate President.

And remember that the same dismal calculus goes for virtually every South Eastern contender of the Senate Presidency. What it simply means is: demanding to reap where they did not sow! It is what I described as ‘arrant rashin kunya’!

It is part of the rules of ancient and modern warfare, that the booties of war are shared among those who risked their lives on the battle field. Giving the South East the Senate Presidency is like sharing the spoils of war with those who not only did not go to war, but had even aided the enemy!