Nigeria, April 25 -- If one were to hear former Senate President Senator Bukola Saraki verbalising his statement of solidarity with the People's Democratic Party (PDP) following the defection of Delta Governor Sheriff Oborevwori, former vice-presidential candidate Ifeanyi Okowa, and all the party structure in the state to the All Progressives Congress (APC), you could mistake it for a battle cry of a general. I can guess this is what he himself thought, and wanted people to believe, of himself. Only that, of a truth, he is a general without troops.
The supposed national opposition leader doesn't lead a single councillor in Kwara let alone a state assembly member. Like a cassava root without even the leaves to cover the stem, he casts a...