You can play a bad song once or twice, but it eventually ends up on the bin. It is however not the same for an ever green song.
While Kingsley Kuku is not in the bin, the onetime political and environmental right activist is almost there.
Many would recall how verbosed Kuku was when he held sway as the Special Adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan on Niger Delta Affairs and Chairman of the presidential Amnesty Program.
In the good books of the power that be, his office was said to be bigger than that of some governors. But who would think that there would come a day when a man with such power and influence would consider stepping into his fatherland a fantasy.
That is where Kuku is now having fled the country at the inception of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration on the guise of a medical condition.
Subsequently, a tale of his combining his recuperation with academic pursuits made the news.
Meanwhile, he was allegedly to have sought refuge in the United States in fear of prosecution by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), seeking him to answer questions concerning how he handled a 6.2 billion contract while he held sway atop the Presidential Amnesty programme.
Although, the tale was denied but it will be recalled it was in circulation Kuku was arrested in the United States for breaching rules of stay granted and was deported to Ghana. Despite the denial, what is crystal clear is that Kuku may have been committed to political oblivion as his continuous absence in the country is robbing him of his dream to become the governor of Ondo State where he hails from but the inability of Jonathan to retain power in 2015 didn’t only dent his plans, his alleged case with the EFCC which is believed to have made him scamper abroad dealt a messy blow on his ambition such that he’s not been privileged to have a say in who becomes the governor let alone vie for the seat.
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