Nigeria, July 2 -- Politics has always been described as a game. Those who play politics see themselves caught up in a game. For many of them, it is a game of numbers, which often boils down to who stands where and when.

But unlike sports with all its noble attributes, politics is a brutal game where the loser could lose everything all including their lives. Indeed, many have lost their lives in Nigeria while playing politics. In politics, desperately dark politicking typically takes precedence over sportsmanship and even basic human decency.

In a country with more failures to tally than successes since independence because of apocalyptic leadership, politics has been a disaster for people.

In Rivers State, after Siminalayi Fubara repl...