The very recent defection of the so much troubled and traumatised Governor of Rivers State, His Excellency Siminalayi Fubara from his erstwhile People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the alliance of Governor Ubani Sani with President Ahmed Bola Tinubu, after his fallout with his principal, Nasir El-Rufai with the president opens a new verse in Nigeria’s sociopolitical debate due to the dismantling of godfatherism.
From the outset, it is important to note that politics is about authority, power, and influence, which betrayal is an essential and a fundamental element as Anifowose would have us believe (Anifowose, “The Nature and Scope of Political Science” in Elements of