The Political Cycle

(a) Person A is corrupt.

(b) Person B points finger at Person A, and says he will fight Person A because Person A is corrupt.

(c) Person B removes Person A through coup-de-tat, through some version of Nuhu Ribadu or through power shift/rotation/zoning/term limits.

(d) However, Person B is just as corrupt as Person A.

(e) Person B appoints one of his political allies, Person C to replace Person A.

(f) Person C is just as corrupt as Persons A and B.

(g) Depending on which part of Nigeria Persons A, B and C hail from, sections of the Nigerian public rejoice that Person A is gone because Person A is the root of all of our problems.

(h) If you tell the people referenced in (g) that nothing of substance has changed except the identity of the direct beneficiary of the continuing corruption ... they will abuse you, say that you are a supporter of corrupt Person A, and an enemy of Person C, the great hero of our times.

(i) Two, four, six or eight years later, begin the cycle again at (a).