THE SMELL OF AMBITION : THE BEAT GOES ON!
THE SMELL OF AMBITION: THE BEAT GOES ON! BY AGADA IKECHUKWU After a careful anatomy of the smell of ambition, colour of rage and price of vengeance raining in our political space; the submission of Frank Albert, an American fiction writer, who said, “ Ambitions tend to remain undisturbed by realities” became food for thought. The ingenious cross-pollination of ideas, re-engineering of the mechanics of leadership and digital studentship of the Nigerian mood triggered the ongoing endorsement crusade and wave of defections threatening calculations ahead of 2019 general elections. Like all man-made deities, the extraordinary image paraded by the ruling party in 2015 has faded out and its once intimidating massive goodwill is fast diminishing; no thanks to the general thumbs-down for the Buhari administration. With the message of repentance, mass- appealing slogan of “Change the Change” of the PDP and the unobtrusive yet, far-reaching way it has gone about doing ...