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Seen largely as an authoritative allocation of values in society, politics in Nigeria sometimes morph into a vengeful mission to drum home the trappings and essence of power by those who wield it.

In the past few years, Nigerians have been treated to ugly episodes of sitting governors who take on their opponents as soon as elections are over.

Being a zero-sum game in this part of the world, politics in the form of personal attack, replaces electioneering politics when a winner emerges particularly at the sub-national level.

In 2020, shortly after he was sworn in for a second term in office, Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki turned the heat against the state ex-deputy governor, Mr Pius Odubu, and other All Progressives Congress chieftains, who opposed his second-term governorship aspiration.

The Certificates of Occupancy of their property were revoked alongside that of his own, stating that they were government property which former Governor Adams Oshiomhole gave as parting gifts to former political office holders, companies and private individuals.

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