Oshiomole, Akpabio And The Senate Throne

There is a war raging in the Red Chamber. Not a war of ideas, God forbid we should ever be so lucky, but a war of ambition, ego, and raw political survival dressed up in procedural language. Senator Adams Oshiomole and Senate President Godswill Akpabio are at each other’s throats, and the theatre has been magnificent, if you enjoy watching two powerful men in an expensive building fight over who gets to sit in the most expensive chair.
Oshiomole fired the first public salvo in mid-June, appearing on Seun Okinbaloye’s Mic On Podcast and unloading on Akpabio with the kind of specificity that tells you this has been festering for a while. He accused the Senate President of paranoia, exclus...