In the mythical land of Anything Goes where citizen docility,
“lackadaisicality” and tepidity was beyond the crescendo of reason, and
where for every abysmal, gut-wrenching and harrowing happening the
people quickly gestured with a fait accompli expression, it is well!
There arose a giant problem, an evil tintinnabulation that stole the
peace of the people. This was a recrudescent spate of armed robberies in
their vilest forms! Armed robberies so brutal that the timorous of the
people of Anything Goes was pierced; they were jarred to life, to sordid
reality. They could no longer afford to nestle under the cumulus of
indifference. They had to act!
The Power gang and the Progressive gang were the two dare-devil armed
robbery gangs terrorizing the hapless people of Anything Goes. While
the Power gang plied their illicit trade in the daytime, pillaging,
killing and raping the people viciously in broad daylight, the
Progressive gang under the cover of darkness did the same things with
more sinister oomph and aspect. In true assessment, both gangs were
Siamese sibs from hell! Nefarious in an unthinkable dimension; turpitude
was there trade. However, while the Power gang were brazen, intrepid
and far removed from the people for fear of being identified and
apprehended as their faces were never hidden in any of their operations,
the Progressive gang were surreptitious and devious. They fraternized
with the people in the day and robbed them in the night. In fact, they
would take the leading role in making decisions on how to combat the
menace of armed robbery in the land. In every issue concerning the
people, they always came up with an agenda to show that they were
progressive. Such was the fate of the people of Anything Goes.
Now that the spate of armed robbery had reached the abominable acme,
and the people at their wits’ end, a solution had to be forged. It was
in the process of finding a lasting solution to the incubus that the
citizens of Anything Goes plunged into the vortex of an insoluble
dilemma. In a citizens’ meeting, they summoned the Chief of Police
basically for him to render an account of his efforts at fighting the
evil plague that had befallen them. The Chief of Police, in a somber
and resigned note informed them that a lack of needed resources was
rendering his efforts futile. And that to successfully counter the
scourge of armed robbery in the state, the citizens had to decide on
which of the gang of thieves to be tackled first and annihilated. Should
it be the Power gang or the Progressive gang? With a clear mandate to
concentrate resources on pulverizing one of the gangs much would be
achieved.
After the peroration of the Chief of Police, the citizens were left
to agree on which of the gangs to deal with first. The centre was broken
and the human discrepancies revealed! While some spoke kindly about the
Power gang forgetting the torture and rape they had endured, others
spoke unkindly about them recounting their ugly experiences at the hands
of the gang. The same was the case with the Progressive gang, while
some citizens spoke subtly about their ordeals with the gang making
light of their seamy encounters; others spoke conversely about their
misadventures at the hands of the gang. They all forgot that the two
gangs were one and the same thing-armed robbers! In the light of the
immanent challenge, the citizens could not come to an agreement as there
were divergent opinions of which gang to extirpate first. The result
was that the armed robbery gangs were left to operate unchecked with
impunity and brazen derring-do. The citizens of Anything Goes were by
that unfortunate kismet forced to endure the rape, torture and pillage
galore.
This is an anecdotal representation of the Nigerian situation as
regards the PDP and the APC, and this depiction is not far from the
orbit of verisimilitude.
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