Politicians Facing Bleak Future After 2023 Elections PremiumTimesng: Nigeria
The 2023 general elections are over, safe for some supplementary polls arising from inconclusive elections that have been scheduled for 15 April by INEC. The country has a new president-elect and a vice president-elect on the platform of the ruling. They will be sworn into office on 29 May, thus drawing the curtain on the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
But there are casualties and there are casualties. The former may recover on time via appointments or make political comebacks in 2027 as has happened in the past. Some may even retrieve their mandates via the tribunal and courts. For the latter casualties, except the unexpected happens, it is safe to say that, all things considered, their political careers face a bleak future, now and even in the foreseeable time to come. Some may quit the political scene completely as their time is over.
Where will Mr Ortom go next? Stay in the PDP and confront the principalities who want him out or port to the APC on which platform he first became governor in 2015. Some local observers say he may decide to seek comfort in the embrace of the LP until the coast is clear for him to keep sailing politically or call it a day with his political career and go find something else to do.
Other things being equal, by the time power would be shifting back to the south, the professor of law will be 82 and the political odds may not favour the South-west to produce the president then. When pressed for a comment on why he decided to support PDP at the national level and the APC at the state level, he said he was only supporting candidates and not political parties.
For the first time after many decades of being in dominant control of the political leadership of Kwara State, the Saraki dynasty was dislodged from power in 2019 by the 'Otoge movement,' a coalition of forces which wanted a paradigm shift in the state. He was speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly for two terms and also became governor of the state for two terms of eight years, succeeding his erstwhile godfather, Peter Odili, who facilitated his entry into partisan politics.
His preferred candidate, Tonye Cole, the governorship candidate of the APC, came a distant second to the winner of the election, Sim Fubara, the candidate of the PDP, backed by the outgoing governor of the state, Nyesom Wike. However, there does not seem to be much left for him to mine politically again as he failed on 18 March to install his son as the governor of Jigawa State, a state he ruled for two terms as governor.
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