In Nigeria, politics has become synonymous with sycophancy and that just played at Transcorp Hilton, as the Kwara Central senator-elect Salihu Mustapha was sighted serving Senator Akpabio meals and water during a Pro-Akpabio committee meeting in Transcorp.
The Kwara-born senator-elect was seen providing unsolicited errands for Senator Akpabio throughout the duration of their meeting to the irritation of others in the meeting.
An eagle eye witness who doesn’t want his name in prints said that Mr. Saliyu Mustapha threw caution to the winds and reduced himself to become Senator Akpabio’s unsolicited errand
‘It was so full of shame watching the senator-elect acting as Akpabio’s personal assistant and personal male servant. Serving him meals and behaving like a tout was quite disgusting. That to me is the height of stupidity, sycophancy and mediocrity. The 10th Assembly will be an interesting one and we’re all out to school this sycophants that you do not get leadership position by acting a tout. Intelligence, creativity and diligence are virtues that would be looked out for in the 10th Senate. People like Mustapha won’t fit in through sycophancy.
It could be recalled that Salihu Mustapha succeeded Senator Dr Yahaya Oloriegbe, the Senate Committee Chairman on Health.
The emergence of Mr Salisu Mustapha was a product of backstabbing and political maneuvers.
However, the jostle for the Senate Presidency has exposed the weakness of the like of Senator-elect Salihu Mustapha who doesn’t seem to understand that decency and intelligence are still part of politics.
” From the look of things, Senator Salisu Mustapha leadership style might reflect a lowered bar when compared with the qualities of leaders Kwara has produced in the National Assembly, hitherto”.
“There’s no gainsaying Kwara Central will lose quality and intelligent representation in the next four years as an arrogant and unequipped Salihu Mustapha would rather continue to run errands for his colleagues than give Kwara Central a quality representation.
